Glass Wall, Front Door and Windows
Hi, We just bought a brownstone and part of the work involves replacing the front door (too damaged to repair), all front windows and putting in a wall of glass in the back parlor and garden levels. Any links of companies that sell this to get an idea of prices for the exterior doors and…
Hi,
We just bought a brownstone and part of the work involves replacing the front door (too damaged to repair), all front windows and putting in a wall of glass in the back parlor and garden levels. Any links of companies that sell this to get an idea of prices for the exterior doors and windows?
You will need shoring plans as well to show how the building will be supported while all of the structure is being removed. Are you looking to put in a retracting door?
http://www.jpda.net/projects/boerum-hill-house
They put a storefront system in the back of their house.
Is that what you are looking for?
We’ve been looking to do this. In all reality the cost isn’t just the windows, it is also the steel support beam you’ll have to put in and the process of getting it in. I would expect this to be $50k at a bare minimum.
Yes putting in a glass wall is a huge undertaking. A lot of structural implications ($$$$).
Unless you are merely replacing an existing wall of glass in the back, you will need an architect and engineer to make this change, and it will need to be filed with the city. Otherwise yourhouse could collapse.