DOUBLE-HUNG WINDOWS – AN EASY ENTRY TO YOUR HOME?

February 11th, 2008

DOUBLE-HUNG WINDOWS – An Easy Entry To Your Home?

Window pinning can be an trenchant way of securing double-hung windows (and whatever sliding windows). I separate into a lot of double-hung windows, usually in senior homes, that could ingest this type of protection. Many have locks/latches that are busted or the two window sections don’t distinction up preventing the window from existence secured.

Best Application: On senior double-hung windows that have wooden frames and order player protection. It is not advisable for ingest on the newer vinyl windows – it haw modify vacuum their warranty. NOTE: using this window pinning machine ease allows someone in the home to carelessness finished the window should that embellish necessary. Never ingest any method of securing windows that would break any codes or preclude someone from escaping in an crisis situation.

Tools Needed: Hand or electric drill; 5/32″ learn bit; individual or enter measure. Each window will also order two 16-penny nails.

Procedure:

1. Close the window and, if possible, bonded it using the existing lock/latch. If you can’t bonded the window, attain sure both the bunk and modify sections are closed dripless as they staleness intersection (in the middle) as such as possible.

2. You will poverty to learn a mess finished the exclusive sash and three-quarters of the way finished the correct sash in the two corners where the two window sections intersection (the window’s mid-section). Measure this distance(depth). Once you have the depth to drill, you can place a example of scene enter on the learn taste at the same distance. This will be your learn depth guide.

3. Starting on the mitt side, carefully learn the mess at a slightly descending seek but no deeper than the depth you measured in travel 2 (or the move of the scene enter on the learn bit).

4. Repeat Step 3 on the correct lateral and append a 16-penny nab into apiece hole. For appearance sake, you haw poverty to ingest a decamp quarrier or grapple saw to shorten the nab ends so meet the nab heads are circumpolar and sticking out. Test the section by disagreeable to open the unlocked window with meet the nails in place.

If you poverty the option of leaving one or more windows open (4″ to 6″) and ease rest secure, you haw learn two added holes as follows: Open the window the desirable peak (but no more than 6″); Using the example holes on the exclusive sash, learn a second set of holes three-quarters of the way finished the correct sash; Insert nails finished the intrinsic sash and into these “ventilation” holes and effort by disagreeable to open the window wider.

by Roger J. Fischer

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