To ask, if you have a Juliet balcony..........

[Fivepie7]

If you have a bedroom with a Juliet Balcony (or any door) do you sleep with the door open in the Summer months?

We have one in our first floor bedroom but I always have to shut and lock it before going to sleep, just wondered if I was being OTT. Does anyone know the general house insurance opinion on this?

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That made me laugh figuring it out error! Lots of council's won't permit balconies because of overlooking neighbouring properties and gardens. I think that's one reason Juliet balconies are popular as they are a kind of halfway house.

The furniture thing wouldn't work as ours has a glass barrier in front of the French windows. We have 2 small side opening windows too, so no problem with ventilation.

errorofjudgement you have the same bedroom curtains as mine

Phoebefromfriends
Id attach some hanging baskets or window boxes and grow tomatoes on it. Make it useful.

I would leave it open if it would invite heroes or princes in

Tbh I wouldn't as we have tv on at night and we'd get buzzard moths in.

We have a balcony off the bedroom, we always have it open in warmer weather as the room's an oven otherwise. We're not overlooked at night but bugs have come in if the tv's on.

From an insurance perspective you wouldn't be covered if you were broken into. For theft to be covered there has to be evidence of forcible or violent entry. Therefore you need to take reasonable steps to make the doors secure. If you leave them open you should use a locking device as mentioned earlier in the thread to stop doors being opened any further than allowed.

They annoy me. That's not a balcony. It's just a window with delusions of grandeur

I like the look of them and love the idea of an open view...but the practicality of leaning on to something gives me the shudders. I can't even lean on the balcony wall/rail on holiday.

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I have a big balcony on my second floor bedroom and sleep with the fly screen door only in warm weather. A burglar would have to be out of their mind to choose this way in, as access is only over 2m-high fences via the neighbours and their dogs, or a steeply descending garden up onto a deck while carrying a ladder. And then encountering the dog.