Make flower box brackets for the balcony yourself
If you have an apartment with a balcony, you usually want to add at least one flower box from which your flowers will peek out. You will need a flower box bracket for this.
A flower box bracket carries a lot of weight
Having a balcony in your apartment is something special, because many apartments often do not have a balcony. If you have a balcony, you certainly want to sit outside and enjoy the freedom even during the warm days. It is also often nice when you can just sit on your balcony and enjoy the evening atmosphere.
- Many women have a so-called green thumb, because whatever plants they sow, they simply succeed in anything. If you have such a green thumb, you also want to showcase the splendor of the flowers you have grown yourself on your balcony.
- To achieve this, you either need a high shelf so that your flowers can also be seen from below, or a flower box bracket that hangs on the balcony railing.
The balcony as a small private garden
In many older balconies, the option of integrating a flower box bracket has already been created by setting an iron bracket in concrete. Since the balcony walls are quite narrow, you need either one for your flower box bracket Wooden frame, which is, however, quite complicated and with which the load-bearing capacity is not particularly high is. The safest alternative for your balcony is a steel flower box bracket, so that a high load-bearing capacity is guaranteed.
- You can get at least two per flower box from a hardware store or a metalworking company such as a locksmith's shop Get steel sheets 3 cm wide and 0.5 cm thick, the total length being between 80 cm and 1 meter should. If you have a flower box 1 meter long, you should plan another sheet of steel in the middle to be on the safe side.
- You should have measured the thickness of the balcony border beforehand. Now let you bend every single sheet of steel to a "U" on a bending device, whereby the short side should be at least 20 cm long and the bottom of the "U" should be the thickness of the balcony wall should.
- Now another "U" is bent from the long sheet steel side, whereby the bottom of the "U" should be the entire width of the balcony box.
- This is how every additional sheet of steel is bent until you have all the parts for your flower box bracket together. When you get home, all you need to do is place your flower box brackets on the balcony parapet, where it hangs firmly and stably at the same time.
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Now put your flower box in these brackets, fill it with potting soil and flowers or Flower seeds and can enjoy your flowers.
