Metal bars on the windows: the original design options

Each house has a first floor. Quite a few families fall into the number of those who consider this level uncomfortable, uncomfortable, and even unsafe for living. All because of the relative availability of ground floor apartments for robbers. After all, most often penetrate them easily. However, this problem can be solved once and for all. It is enough to install protective metal bars on the windows.

As with any location, living space on the lower level has a lot of advantages. The range of advantages of living on the first floor is quite impressive:

• There is no need to use the elevator and depend on its serviceability.
• There is a possibility of quick evacuation in case of natural and domestic disasters.
• You can quickly move into the apartment and easily replace the furniture.
• When repairing without problems, you can get rid of debris.
• It is for the tenants of the first floor that the easiest way is to break a flower bed under the windows and grow on it not only decorative flowers, but also, for example, seasonings.
• It is also convenient to exercise control over children's behavior and quick response to their actions, as well as to incidents from the playground, from the lower floors.
• If you have a car, it is convenient to control the situation in the parking space.

To protect themselves from visiting lovers of someone else's property through the windows or balcony of the first floor, residents often install metal bars. But in order to avoid a feeling of alienation from the external environment, these protective elements must have some functional features.

Important qualities are the reliability of the lattice design, its weight (per 1 m2) and high aesthetics, design. The windows of the first floors of many residential, industrial and office buildings are closed with decorative metal bars. There is a wide field of activity for designers, artists,designers and lovers of self-made creativity.

It is rare to find the same device and design window and balcony grilles. Attracts not only a variety of designs designed to perform protective functions, but also the design, decoration of various directions. You can choose the option for every taste and wallet.

Although the designs of window and balcony gratings can be counted in a huge amount, their main types depend on the materials and method of manufacture:

• forged;
• welded;
• combined.

There are several types of lattice construction features:

• deaf;
• sliding;
• swinging

There is a variant of the internal easily removable design.

A sash system is mounted on the fixed frame, which can open to the side.In the open state, the construction is not very noticeable and takes up little space. This design is simple, reliable, but its rigidity is noticeably weakened. The sash sliding is also called accordion. Such a system has certain advantages:

• open grid allows access of street light;
• easy access to the window;
• the level of fire safety is not reduced;
• pretty aesthetic look;
• according to the chosen design they select the color to cover the structure.

Features of this design should be considered in detail. The general view resembles an ordinary lattice formed by pairs of vertical elements, between which there should be a gap of 1.8 cm. The size of the structure is changed by the connectors connecting the vertical parts.

The number of rows is affected by the height of the window. The verticals are set at a distance of 12 cm from each other in the shifted state of the lattice. These elements have the ability to move along monorails, their lower fragment is equipped with bearings. The design of the lock is built-in or hinged. Most often used two models of opening the valves:

1. The shift is made in one direction.
2. Folds move from the middle in both directions.

Window lattices of oar type happen several versions:

• To a rigid frame in the opening window hinged hinged shutters, which swing open if necessary, and in the closed position are locked, mortise or hinged. Remains free space.
• When the grids are wide open, they are less noticeable. From the point of view of firefighters, this option will provide a real way out of the room in extreme cases. Difficulties may arise if the scheme for quickly opening the lock is not worked out. All family members need to practice in the quick use of the key from the lattice lock.
• The lattice of the swing system is most often placed on one of the window openings, usually the widest, leaving the other openings with blind grilles.

Peculiarities of hinged lattice content are easy to learn.

• Swivel loops must be regularly maintained, cleaned and lubricated.
• This tool, like other means of protection and protection, must have a solid, reliable and rigid structure.
• Wind and operational loads produce vibrations that create local stresses.These stresses are transmitted through the anchors to the wall, which can lead to local destruction. It is necessary to monitor the condition of the anchors.
• The locking system must be operable in all weather and seasonal conditions.

According to the location of the lattice can be internal, when the structure is mounted from inside the window opening and the dismantling of the lattice for intruders is very difficult, and external. In this case, the lattice is fixed outside the opening to the wall of the house; here special attention should be paid to the fastening of the lattice. Almost all lattices are made opening from the inside and can be swing or sliding and have the possibility of easy opening.

Constructions with a lock are made in such a way that the lock is easily opened from the inside by the owners and is inaccessible to intruders. As is usually the case in critical situations, finding the key and quickly opening the lock is very difficult in a panic condition and therefore the key must be located in an easily accessible place for apartment owners. The best option with built-in steel lock without a key.

If you want to install window grilles do not take into account the craving of people to a beautiful view of their homes, then you can get a dull monotony of simple cells that lead to longing for the people living behind them. Even in the simplest versions, a person wants to bring design elements into window bars. The possibilities of applying creative forces to the design and decoration have led to the fact that dozens, if not hundreds, of window grilles with different content and design have already been created and will be developed.

Decorative bars on the windows should continue to design and apartment building and a private cottage. Large window grilles provide a large field for excellent decor, but a small window can be covered with highly artistic metal forging.

Often, a decorative window grille has fixing points made of decorative parts, but this may weaken the structure to some extent. For rigidity, it must have a closed loop. For this, it is desirable to fix the details of the decor in the frame, as is done in the photo This prefab design was strong, tough and with a good, attractive design. In this lattice, various steel materials of simple hire, forged parts, standard corners for the frame were successfully used, but everything was kept in the same style, subject to the transitions and without excessive pomp.

Forged grates - the result of the work of the blacksmith shop. There should be a combination of blacksmithing skills, artistic taste and physical strength. It is necessary to have the conditions for such work, equipment, tools, devices.

Convinced of the need to install protection on the windows of an apartment on the ground floor or a country house, and choosing your option with the help of designers and specialists, you can begin installing the gratings. The masters face the task to translate the chosen option into reality, retaining the basic requirements for design, strength, full functioning and long-term operation. Installation should be done by a professional.

Fixed window grilles are mounted directly to the wall of the house. The choice of fasteners also depends on the wall material. Put a flat or three-dimensional lattice, to decide the owners. If you install a voluminous, “blown” grid, then in front of the window there will be a space for boxes or pots of flowers. This option is better suited for opening windows.

1. What degree of protection does a customer need?It is possible to determine its parameters yourself, but still it is better to trust the masters. First of all, assess the social situation in the area of ​​residence.
2. The material from which the product will be made, can significantly affect the price and time of manufacture of a protective product and, above all, the degree of protection.
3. Method of attachment. Since most types of gratings are produced as a closed structure, the method of attachment must be determined before production begins. Here it is necessary to take into account the material of the walls, because the fixing strength largely depends on this parameter.
4. Choose a color. This important parameter sometimes requires good design skills that masters should possess.
5. Check whether it is possible to perform dusty and noisy work in this room.

On-site master also makes calculations and voiced the cost of construction. The final amount is influenced by several parameters:

• Lattice material.
• Dimensions.
• Manufacturing method
• Type of construction.
• Additional work.

The last parameter is taken into account only if, during the installation of the structure, the masters will have to perform works that are not included in the list of their services.For example, if the walls in the place of fastening of the lattice crumbled, then they will have to be restored - this is already an additional service.

When the grille is selected and manufactured, you can proceed directly to the installation. The order of work is as follows:

1. Along the perimeter of the frame of the lattice or sections, if the project is without a frame, the number of holes necessary for durability is drilled.
2. In places where the structure is in contact with the window opening, it is necessary to lay a rubber seal.
3. The openings in the frame of the lattice indicate the centers of the openings for fasteners; after their installation, the lattice can be fastened and final operations can be carried out.

Materials for window grilles should be of optimal size so as not to weigh down the structure and not to reduce the strength of the structure. If you want to protect the apartment from uninvited guests, then besides lattices, you need to take care of security alarm. It is better to think about this moment when choosing a protection option and drawing up a design task.

Protecting the cottage, in which you do not plan to live year-round, take care of the preservation of the moving parts of sliding and hinged lattices (hinges, bearings, locks, locks).

The main material is steel parts with different carbon content and different capabilities to withstand natural exposure, so you need to take measures to restore the appearance of the grating, cleaned and tinted in a timely manner.

If the lattice parts are made of copper, brass, silver-plated or gold-plated, then they do not need protective and restorative measures, except for cleaning from dust and dirt. Such window protections are very expensive and their functions are more designer than protective.

Furnishing inside the apartment, cottage, cottage, you need to take care of the exterior design, an important element of which may be a window lattice. Each of the variants of execution can be a model of a separate design decision. Better than other options in the artistic plan look forged lattice with iron casting elements. They are difficult to manufacture, install and maintain, but in design they hold primacy among other samples of window designs.

On the presented photos you can see examples of successful in terms of functionality and decoration of modern window grilles. Figured products carry out not only protective functions, but also bear a subject component of all design registration of the house.

Harmony should be in everything, even in the iron "protectors" of windows. Beauty is not only in the use of expensive materials. It is possible and from simple details to create a good and attractive version of window protection. Much lattice is made using repetition of one piece.

This obstructs the design, makes it look heavy, especially if a large window is closing. In these cases, you need to add different in shape and size of the details and get the effect of good design.

How to make a beautiful lattice on the window with your own hands, see the next video.