June 2026 Project Round-Up
June 2026 Project Round-Up: Balconies, Balustrades and Bespoke Steel
June kept the workshop busy. From walkout balconies in Cumbria and Buckinghamshire to Juliet balconies, handrails and a bit of bespoke steel for a name you'll recognise, here's a look back at what we designed, made and fitted over the month, all from our Sheffield factory and installed by our own team.
This is only a small selection, the jobs we happened to photograph. Plenty more went out over the month, including supply-only orders shipped to customers across the UK that never make it in front of a camera.
Bespoke balcony and balustrade projects
A few of June's jobs were big enough to earn their own write-up. Here's the short version, with a link to the full story on each.
Metal railings, oak handrails and a frosted privacy screen, Bradway, Sheffield. Satin black railings to a raised terrace and garden steps, topped with warm oak handrails, plus a frosted glass privacy screen to shield the seating area from next door. Read the full project.
Walkout balcony with a louvred privacy screen, Crummock, Cumbria. A galvanised and powder-coated black walkout balcony with composite decking, and a one-off louvred steel privacy screen that breaks the sightline but lets the wind pass through, designed for an exposed site where the client did not want glass. Read the full project.
Walkout balcony, frameless glass balustrade and staircase, Bourne End, Buckinghamshire. We extended an existing platform with new composite decking, fitted a frameless laminated glass balustrade to open up the garden view, and replaced the staircase down to the garden. Read the full project.
Juliet balconies
Two very different Juliet balconies went out in June. The first is our Lincoln-style curved Juliet, powder-coated light grey, with a gently bowed front for a clean, contemporary look against the brickwork. The second is a black Regency-style Juliet, all decorative scrollwork and traditional detail, a reminder that we make ornate ironwork as readily as minimalist steel.
Galvanised handrail, Sheffield
Not every job is a showpiece, and that is fine. This galvanised steel handrail on posts runs up a flight of external steps to a Sheffield home, supplied and installed to make the approach safer. Galvanised steel is the right call here: it shrugs off the weather for decades with no upkeep.
A bit of bespoke steel: Red Bull Technology, Milton Keynes
June also took us off the usual patch. We fabricated a bespoke steel bracket to hang from the ceiling at Red Bull Technology in Milton Keynes, supporting display screens in an office space. It is the kind of one-off structural steelwork we take on alongside the balconies and balustrades, designed, made and finished in-house.
Back at Eurocell, Alfreton
We also returned to Eurocell's head office in Alfreton to install another of the galvanised steel fire escape staircases from the three-unit contract there, finished with high-visibility yellow open-mesh treads. It builds on the first staircase we covered in our Eurocell fire escape project.
From the workshop
Two pieces worth a behind-the-scenes look.
The first is a steel base frame for a hinged floor access door, built with a recessed tray so the finished hatch can be filled with tiles rather than glass. Most of our floor hatches use structural glass, but a tiled infill lets the door disappear into a tiled floor completely, a neat option we are always happy to make. It is shown here in raw mild steel, before it goes off for galvanising and powder-coating.
The second is a steel staircase trial-built in the workshop, also in raw mild steel before galvanising and powder-coating. Trial assembly before a job leaves the factory is standard practice for us: it means any adjustments are made in Sheffield, not on site, so installation is quick and clean.
Planning your own project?
Whether it is a balcony, a balustrade, a staircase, a handrail or a one-off piece of bespoke steel, we survey, design, manufacture and install across the UK, supply-only or fully fitted, with over 35 years behind us as a family-run Sheffield business. Call us on 0114 243 9009, email sales@diometonline.co.uk, or see all our projects.
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