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About half of the big sliding windows in our place are so hard to slide open and shut, they either go crooked when being slid across, or just have very little sliding ability. Made all the harder when you're squeezing your hand through a wooden venetian to do so!
Can you get the frames/tracks revamped? Anything I can do myself? I've found alot of window glass repair companies but not sure on frame repairs? I'm presuming fixing them would be cheaper than replacing them?
Maybe try some DIY fixes first for your DH. Take the windows out, by half opening the window, grasp the sides of the windows towards the bottom, push the windows up and then pull the bottom half towards you to release them from the runners. Check that the bottom runner area is clean, you may find a build-up of dust/dirt in there. Also have a look at the bottom of the window you have just taken out, to see if everthing is fine there, in our windows we have a strip of foam/fur type stuff. This is also a good chance for your DH clean both sides of the window.
This could be all that your windows need. I know that I need to do this every 6 months or so in our place.
Are they really that easy to take out? That bothers me a lot, we have aluminimum windows, so anyone who broke in could just take out my windows? I think I might have to get timber ones
Ray - aluminium windows are easy to take out from the inside - but any window can be broken into
Thanks Sopdet I showed DH your post (thanks for mentioning he should do it ;)) and next cool day we'll tackle it.
Pandora like AP said, easy to take out from the inside but not the outside. We were recently broken into and they didn't come in that way - we have security screens and slide locks on the glass sliding doors - they just broke the fixed glass panel in the laundry door to get in. I guess if they really want in, very little will stop them :dunno:
I saw your ticker and thought that there was no way that you should be doing this work, that your ever-helpful DH could do it.