The window on the picture has a stop/device that prevents it from being opened more than a few inches. When the window was new, the stop was retractable. It cannot be locked into the sash anymore.
It is a safety feature so you can open the window for fresh air but it can't be opened enough for a child to crawl out. If your keep flopping out you can hold them closed with some tape, completely break them off or replace the child safety latch with new ones.
Door from kitchen to garage, opens in towards the garage. Husband is relegated to smoke his pipe in the garage. (He is good about it, has a lounge chair he's very comfortable.) When I open the door into the garage I almost hit him if he is coming into the kitchen at the same time. I am usually able to bang on the door before I open it, but sometimes my hands are full. (Washer and dryer are in the garage.) I can kick the door with my shoe, but was leaving black marks on the paint.
Is there an easy peasy solution? Hang some bells? I can't visualize how to hang bells so that the door brushes against them as it opens yet they won't be in the way when the door closes? I'd need the bell to make a noise as soon as the door starts to open, not after it's opened five inches so so.
I try to open the door slowly and carefully, but of course the one time I don't is the one time I almost hit him.
Either I'm too stupid for my door, or I'm stumped!
Hi,
We had a few double glass panes replaced in our existing windows that had become foggy (no change made to the white vinyl frames). After completion, in some, there is a small bit of black showing in the inner edge of the window from the sealed border of the new glass. Is this just a normal thing? (Or is it a defect in the sealed glass, or in the alignment when the glass unit was placed into the frame?)
I do see some of the old glass in our existing windows has the same thing -- it's just less noticeable since the sealed border there is silver/aluminum instead of black.
Thanks! (this is enlarged; it's not as big as it looks in the photo, its a couple mm only)
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