On Thu, 25 Jan 2007 19:59:34 +0000, Chris Hodges
wrote:

|Mathew Newton wrote:
| I would've thought it'd be just as easy getting a crowbar underneath
| even a closed UPVC window frame - they're not the stiffest of
| structures and indeed what with the rubber sealing strips there's
| probably enough of an available gap to get the bar into without causing
| distortion anyway.
|
|On some models the properly locked position is metal-on-metal, the
|draught position is metal-on-plastic.

On my windows the draught position locking is metal on metal, with the same
strength as the fully locked position. Which was an important point in
the choice.
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