Hi all,
I am currently in the process of snagging my house. I found that when I opened/closed one of the windows that, on closing, the window caught the guide plastic heavily and required a good pull to close. [I dont know the technical name to this piece of plastic. Its a tapered piece of platic that guides the window on closing to ensure the latches match up. Hope people can understand this]. I know that catching this guide to some extent is common, but this window was heavily cataching it. I put this down on the snag. What the builers did to fix it was rip out the plastic guide. Now the window closes perfectly but I am worried over time that as the window drops further, that there is no guide present and that this will cause issues down the line. As its one of those windows where the whole window opens out, it is probably heavy so I suspect that the hinges may ward slightly over time. Hence I expect some dropping over time. Any advice? Is this issue/builders solution common? Builders are cowboys so not sure how far to push this. I have other more critical things that need doing. To give an example, another windows frame is cracked and so far they have refused to replace it (filling the crack with poly filler instead!)! Stress levels growing by the day!
Thanks for reading this and any advice you might have.
I am currently in the process of snagging my house. I found that when I opened/closed one of the windows that, on closing, the window caught the guide plastic heavily and required a good pull to close. [I dont know the technical name to this piece of plastic. Its a tapered piece of platic that guides the window on closing to ensure the latches match up. Hope people can understand this]. I know that catching this guide to some extent is common, but this window was heavily cataching it. I put this down on the snag. What the builers did to fix it was rip out the plastic guide. Now the window closes perfectly but I am worried over time that as the window drops further, that there is no guide present and that this will cause issues down the line. As its one of those windows where the whole window opens out, it is probably heavy so I suspect that the hinges may ward slightly over time. Hence I expect some dropping over time. Any advice? Is this issue/builders solution common? Builders are cowboys so not sure how far to push this. I have other more critical things that need doing. To give an example, another windows frame is cracked and so far they have refused to replace it (filling the crack with poly filler instead!)! Stress levels growing by the day!
Thanks for reading this and any advice you might have.
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