For top hung windows horizontal , imagine for a moment that you have turned the window sideways, and the window is now side hung vertical. This gives you a good idea which way round the handle should go. There may be some holes somewhere in the mechanism shoot bolts that you could grab with a pick.
Practice, investigate with another open window on the ground floor to see if you can to work out a method of opening? If there is absolutely nowhere to grab the shoot bolt and there is no way of hooking it, then the only option may be to grab it from the other side? As always, this is at your own risk… If you remove the glass remove the plastic beads around the glass edge — Older windows outside edge, newer windows inside edge.
The frame will flex slightly more. Be careful though as things can break the plastic welds holding the window together can be brittle and the hinges can break. You might be very lucky if the window flexes a bit, and the shoot bolt is only just latching? Warning — I have never done this, and it is the last resort. The whole window is usually held in place by drilling through the plastic frame and fixing using long screws.
On the same basis, if the shoot bolt needs a small hole drilled in it, you could drill through the frame from where the glass was fitted. Choose the best position to drill through carefully by comparing the shoot bolt position on another window on the ground floor.
If the shoot bolt still cannot be moved using a pick, make the start of the hole in the plastic bigger.
The aim is to make a funnel type hole so that the shoot bolt can be levered up using the hole drilled in it. Failing that, make an inspection hole through the plastic frame to get to the shoot bolt from the other side. You may need to jiggle the handle to get the shoot bolt to move. The hole s you drill will need to be hidden when the glass and shootbolt are replaced. The window should still open and close. Check that the window lock operates freely when you have removed the shootbolts.
Note: Your house insurance may stipulate the type of locking mechanism that should be fitted to a window. So you may need to replace the broken parts. The gearbox fitted inside the window the handle shaft passes through it has probably broken.
I had my bedroom tilted overnight and tried to close it this morning I've had countless issues with their fitting ever since which Hi, are you willing to do uPVC window and door repairs under the green homes energy grant scheme, that requires trades people to Ask a tradesman.
Like 0. Simple fix. If you are happy to leave it broken and only need it for the tumble dryer vent, you could just replace the glass unit for one one with a hole in for the dryer hose. Looking at the size it should not be that expensive and as it is internally beaded should be easy to change the glass unit over yourself. Oh, that's an idea, thanks! SteveCritten Distinguished Member. Or even a glazed unit with a fan in? IronGiant said:. There is actually an extractor fan directly above the dryer, which is on the work top.
We never use it but building regs made us put it in. Not too sure if there's a near enough contraption to pipe straight out through that though.
Wife won't appreciate something homemade up there. It might be easer to get a dryer with a rear facing vent and core the wall! Orson Moderator. If that's not an option, there are a couple of approaches to rectify, but you should take the glass out of the top opening section easy DIY for both, and if it were me I'd also remove it from the bottom fixed pane just for ease of access and to save potential breakages as you mess around above.
Put the handle back on, turn it to the open position, so that only the faulty shootbolt is engaged, then with a combination of pushing the unlocked edge from the inside, and using a lever stiff scraper etc on the locked edge from the outside try and lever it across enough to let the bolt pop out. However, be careful with this method as it could very easily damage the window, start with very little force and build up.
If that doesn't work, as others have suggested, drill a hole in the bottom rail of the opening window, but do it from above, inside the window where you have removed the glass from, and then use pliers to try and slide the bolt back. The reason for doing it from where the glass goes is that when the glass is replaced, cosmetically the frame appears undamaged. Once you get the offending part off, it may just be that something has come loose, unclipped etc, and may go back together ok, but if not there are plenty of places to buy replacement parts online, and even if it requires the whole mechanism, a lock for a window that size won't be expensive.
If you do remove the lock, you can secure the opening part closed while you source a new part by screwing through the bottom rail into the plastic part it shuts against, but just check the size of the screw isn't too long to go too far through and touch the glass below. Again, doing this is unseen when the glass is replaced. Your tumble dryer looks like something out of a horror movie.
Last edited: Jun 13, Well that was fun! Didn't get around to doing it until today. Had a friend who's a self employed handyman come have a look at it as he'd done something similar before.
The beading took long enough to come out but once it did and we had removed the glaze it was pretty obvious we were going to have to take her into surgery. No matter how much dual-force from the side and the back, two of us gave it, it would not budge. I thought with the glass out it might have enough give but no chance. Drilled down into the bottom rail from within but the rod we're looking for couldn't be further away and you can't get enough around it to move it.
So in the end we drilled through the frame from the outside, at the nearest point to where that rod protrudes, locking it in place. Turns out the mechanism is OK through out, if you tap that side of the rod in it comes out again as you lock with the handle, however it doesn't retract when you go to open with the handle. Seeing as there's no obvious way to get to any of this, even with it now open we just decided to angle grind the end of the locking rod off.
I'm pretty confident the window is secure without it seeing as 2 blokes couldn't shift it even without the glass in! So I have an internal hole that you can't see, and a only cosmetic damage is on the outside frame the size of 2 peas, which is now filled with white silicone. Thanks for your help on here, particular Orson. I'm just amazed these things aren't easy to fix, from the inside at least. Last edited: Jun 29, Thanks for the update, and well done.
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