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Default Acoustic Trickle Vents?

On Thu, 25 Jan 2007 14:24:47 GMT, Tony Bryer wrote:

|On Thu, 25 Jan 2007 13:52:16 +0000 Dave Fawthrop wrote :
| Yes! Normal double glazed windows have the *facility* to be locked
| totally closed or slightly open. IMO much better than trickle vents.
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|I'm not so sure. ISTM that on ground floor windows locked slightly open
|is akin to a notice saying "insert crowbar here".

A crowbar used on mine will *not* gain entry to the house. Six locking
points into steel tube reinforcements in the frame. The window itself also
has steel tube reinforcement
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