What Window Replacement?
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Hey All
Below is a window where I currently live. As you can see we are high up & only half of the window opens.
Consider it the same as a loft space in a typical Victorian terraced property in Central London. So there will be legal & safety limitations & Regs due to the height issue.
I cannot find any info online as to what the Regulations will allow.
I'm a fresh air fan & always have the window open. The Landlord has pretty much agreed to replace it with a window that will allow more air in, but will the regs allow this? Landlord is approaching a registered window installer to find out.
For those in the know are there window designs that should comply with the regs & improve upon the installed window.
Dimensions are approximately H90cm * W80cm
Thanks for reading
Below is a window where I currently live. As you can see we are high up & only half of the window opens.
Consider it the same as a loft space in a typical Victorian terraced property in Central London. So there will be legal & safety limitations & Regs due to the height issue.
I cannot find any info online as to what the Regulations will allow.
I'm a fresh air fan & always have the window open. The Landlord has pretty much agreed to replace it with a window that will allow more air in, but will the regs allow this? Landlord is approaching a registered window installer to find out.
For those in the know are there window designs that should comply with the regs & improve upon the installed window.
Dimensions are approximately H90cm * W80cm
Thanks for reading
Edited by Digger on Sunday 21st April 09:45
dhutch said:
Get one that you can clean the outside of.
Bumping for style suggestions whilst waiting for WIndow peeps to be arranged & to visit.Remarkably, the current window somehow manages to keep itself really quite clean on the outside. Do they have a special coating that helps with this?
sherman said:
How tall is the window.?
Could you fit a hopper in the top 300mm and leave enough space for a 180? flip window below without putting a line badly in your view.
You could have the hopper open alot of the time.
Your 180? mechanism will come with a 2 or 3 stage lock as you push the window open. There will be a button in the frame to move to the next latch.
There should also be a lock so you are able to lock it open and stop it blowing shut in the wind.
The other option is a solid section of toughned glass for the bottom 3-500mm to stop you falling out and have a full tilt and turn mechanism above that.
Read OP - approximately 90cm Could you fit a hopper in the top 300mm and leave enough space for a 180? flip window below without putting a line badly in your view.
You could have the hopper open alot of the time.
Your 180? mechanism will come with a 2 or 3 stage lock as you push the window open. There will be a button in the frame to move to the next latch.
There should also be a lock so you are able to lock it open and stop it blowing shut in the wind.
The other option is a solid section of toughned glass for the bottom 3-500mm to stop you falling out and have a full tilt and turn mechanism above that.
eta - re the bold . . . that could work I guess
Edited by Digger on Saturday 27th April 22:15
ridds said:
There are height issues that need to be taken in to account given I am renting & the Landlord is a stickler for keeping within the legislation - rightly so 
technodup said:
Digger said:
That wouldn't work or in any way meet the regs due to the height.
Your OP was basically saying you didn't know/couldn't find anything about the regulations? Now you're telling us what's right?At a guess that window is at 10-12m height, pretty much straight to ground level
Therefore the Regs (I have no idea!) would obviously dictate what is or is not allowed to be installed at such a height. This is the info I cannot find, & perhaps quite rightly should not be accessible to Joe Public
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