Attach the plastic balcony protection yourself
Are you lucky enough to have a balcony in your apartment? Congratulations - especially in summer it's wonderful to be able to have your coffee in the morning and your glass of red wine in the evening in peace and quiet outside. Oh, that with "calmly" is relative, because you call a balcony railing made of bars yours and you can see your table from anywhere? You can remedy this: Attach a balcony screen. They are available prefabricated from plastic in all possible sizes and designs - there will also be a suitable one for your balcony.
Different variants of a balcony privacy screen are possible
- If you have a rather large, terrace-like balcony, you can, in principle, have a natural one Privacy screen Create: Place buckets and other planters on the ground and plant them with strongly growing, climbing and climbing plants. The grid of the balcony parapet can serve as a climbing aid and you have a wonderful privacy screen made of foliage and flowers within a short time.
- If your balcony is small, then of course you cannot do without the space on the floor that large planters take up. Then you have to come up with something else for your privacy screen. Various materials are conceivable for this, but they are differently weatherproof and therefore only more or less short-lived. Bamboo mats, for example, are easy to attach with cable ties and look good, but usually don't last longer than 2-3 years.
- Or fabric balcony coverings: You can buy them in different sizes and designs, but Of course, fabrics suffer a lot from regular, strong sunlight and pale quite quickly the end. That is why plastic is the best, because it is most durable, variant for a balcony privacy screen.
Balcony coverings made of plastic
- Balcony protective coverings are the simplest variant. You can buy plain-colored and patterned tarpaulins made of polyethylene fabric in various heights and lengths, which can be easily attached to the balcony grille using fastening loops, as they are at regular intervals (between 30 and 50 cm) have prefabricated metal eyelets. Such films are weather-resistant and tear-resistant. In addition, the colors do not fade because they are also UV-stable.
- These film coverings must be tensioned evenly and firmly so that there are no unsightly creases and "sagging" form and are therefore, in terms of optics, from the stable plastic mats, which are also available as balcony protection, exceeded.
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- Such plastic privacy mats live for several years. They are washable, defy sun and weather and are available in many different colors (e.g. B. also teak or similar) available, so that they fit into any facade and meet pretty much every taste. They are made of rigid PVC, namely oval tubes that have been laid lengthwise to form mats and connected as a result, they can be rolled up and flexibly adapted to any possible shape, including, for example, arched ones Balcony grille.
- Several mats can be extended to the correct length using connectors and the height of the mats can also be shortened as required. They are very easy to attach using the plastic loops provided, which you loop around the balcony railing. Profiles that can be clicked on after fastening ensure a neat top finish.
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