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I found this sliding patio door lock fitted on the house I've just
bought.

https://rfvt.org.uk/tmp/apprentice.jpg

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On 06/03/2019 18:46, Alan J. Wylie wrote:

I found this sliding patio door lock fitted on the house I've just
bought.

https://rfvt.org.uk/tmp/apprentice.jpg

Brilliant!

If you own a striped jersey and a balaclava and fancy earning a bit of
cash with a night-time job, perhaps you could ask the double-glazing
company where else they've fitted these patio doors?

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On 06/03/2019 18:46, Alan J. Wylie wrote:

I found this sliding patio door lock fitted on the house I've just
bought.

https://rfvt.org.uk/tmp/apprentice.jpg

Brilliant!

If you own a striped jersey and a balaclava and fancy earning a bit of
cash with a night-time job, perhaps you could ask the double-glazing
company where else they've fitted these patio doors?


I think it was fitted some time after the original installation. There
is a lock built into the handle. The house was previously occupied by an
elderly gentlman, and judging by the pile of large print black on yellow
bumph sent by the council that was left behind, e.g. on smoke alarms, I
am inclined to assume that it was the result of some scheme to provide
work experience by fitting locks.

Many years ago, after my mother had her back door kicked in, a young lad
was sent around to fit (badly) a couple of bolts.

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On Wed, 06 Mar 2019 18:46:07 +0000
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I found this sliding patio door lock fitted on the house I've just
bought.

https://rfvt.org.uk/tmp/apprentice.jpg

I wonder if it would otherwise be possible to lift the door out of its
track (and off a normally positioned bolt).

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On Wed, 06 Mar 2019 18:46:07 +0000
(Alan J. Wylie) wrote:

I found this sliding patio door lock fitted on the house I've just
bought.

https://rfvt.org.uk/tmp/apprentice.jpg

I wonder if it would otherwise be possible to lift the door out of its
track (and off a normally positioned bolt).


It certainly isnt with my patio doors.



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On Wed, 06 Mar 2019 18:46:07 +0000
(Alan J. Wylie) wrote:

I found this sliding patio door lock fitted on the house I've just
bought.

https://rfvt.org.uk/tmp/apprentice.jpg

I wonder if it would otherwise be possible to lift the door out of its
track (and off a normally positioned bolt).


It certainly isnt with my patio doors.


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On Wed, 6 Mar 2019 19:39:21 +0000, Rob Morley
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On Wed, 06 Mar 2019 18:46:07 +0000
(Alan J. Wylie) wrote:

I found this sliding patio door lock fitted on the house I've just
bought.

https://rfvt.org.uk/tmp/apprentice.jpg

I wonder if it would otherwise be possible to lift the door out of its
track (and off a normally positioned bolt).


My thought too. Useless as a conventional lock, but it might prevent a
burglar levering the sliding door up off its track, a not uncommon
method of forced entry with earlier patio doors, I believe.


Doesn't work with mine which are from the very early 1970s.
The standard lock has a great big 12mm roughly pin that is
fixed into the fixed frame which goes into a hole in the moving
part of the door and is gripped by the lock when its locked.
That stops you lifting the door when its locked.

I assume
there's a conventional lock as well.



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Doesn't work with mine which are from the very early 1970s.
The standard lock has a great big 12mm roughly pin that is
fixed into the fixed frame which goes into a hole in the moving
part of the door and is gripped by the lock when its locked.
That stops you lifting the door when its locked.


Afraid that you are in Hogg's killfile, Rot, you nym-shifting psychopathic
senile cretin? VBG

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It certainly isnt with my patio doors.


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On Wed, 06 Mar 2019 18:46:07 +0000
(Alan J. Wylie) wrote:

I found this sliding patio door lock fitted on the house I've just
bought.

https://rfvt.org.uk/tmp/apprentice.jpg

I wonder if it would otherwise be possible to lift the door out of its
track (and off a normally positioned bolt).

My thought too. Useless as a conventional lock, but it might prevent a
burglar levering the sliding door up off its track, a not uncommon
method of forced entry with earlier patio doors, I believe.


Doesn't work with mine which are from the very early 1970s.
The standard lock has a great big 12mm roughly pin that is
fixed into the fixed frame which goes into a hole in the moving
part of the door and is gripped by the lock when its locked.
That stops you lifting the door when its locked.


We're not talking about your door, Rod, but about the OP's door.


But its likely that the OP's door lock works the same way.

If someone thought it necessary to put such a lock on the
OP's door,obviously they thought it could be levered out.


Or they didn't have a clue about how the OP's door lock works.



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Many years ago, we had Cold Shield ally double glazed windows fitted. Most
were well made with big rivets holding eye handles on, but the bathroom was
what one might call the black pea in the pod.
One day I closed it, this was about three months into the use, and as I
rotated the handle the whole piece holding it to the window came off and you
could see in this case the rivets were nowhere near long enough to give a
fixing. Calling the company back they had a look at all the others, which
was quite difficult to do with them fitted, but it turned out it was the
only one like that. Of course they could not refit the old handle for
reasons I never did understand, but when they fitted a new one the style is
not quite the same as the others.
So, double glazing weirdness is nothing new. This was around the start of
the 1970s. I remember it well. The windows are still intact though one has a
tiny crack in one corner and its seal has broken. I have had conflicting
advice about replacement glass, some say the wider spaced units are made
with redesigned clip in outward facing strips, others say its false economy
, get new pvc ones due to the blocking of the cold in the frames now used.
However I'm not going to rush changing them!

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On 06/03/2019 18:46, Alan J. Wylie wrote:

I found this sliding patio door lock fitted on the house I've just
bought.

https://rfvt.org.uk/tmp/apprentice.jpg

Brilliant!

If you own a striped jersey and a balaclava and fancy earning a bit of
cash with a night-time job, perhaps you could ask the double-glazing
company where else they've fitted these patio doors?

Nick



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If someone thought it necessary to put such a lock on the OP's door,
obviously they thought it could be levered out.


This assumes "thought":-)

(Maybe they just didn't "get it" and muddled through any old way -- happens when
there is no time, no interest, no one to ask, ...)


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On Thursday, 7 March 2019 08:27:12 UTC, Brian Gaff wrote:
Many years ago, we had Cold Shield ally double glazed windows fitted.


"Cold Bridge" might be a better name.

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On 06/03/2019 19:39, Rob Morley wrote:
On Wed, 06 Mar 2019 18:46:07 +0000
(Alan J. Wylie) wrote:

I found this sliding patio door lock fitted on the house I've just
bought.

https://rfvt.org.uk/tmp/apprentice.jpg

I wonder if it would otherwise be possible to lift the door out of its
track (and off a normally positioned bolt).

The more usual approach is to fit blocks into the upper track, so that
there is only room for it to be lifted out when fully open.

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On 06/03/2019 19:39, Rob Morley wrote:
On Wed, 06 Mar 2019 18:46:07 +0000
(Alan J. Wylie) wrote:

I found this sliding patio door lock fitted on the house I've just
bought.

https://rfvt.org.uk/tmp/apprentice.jpg

I wonder if it would otherwise be possible to lift the door out of its
track (and off a normally positioned bolt).

The more usual approach is to fit blocks into the upper track, so that
there is only room for it to be lifted out when fully open.


Mine has the bottom wheels that you screw up with a screwdriver
inserted into the bottom rail of the door and you can only do that
with the door open, so burglars cant do that.



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The more usual approach is to fit blocks into the upper track, so that
there is only room for it to be lifted out when fully open.


Mine has


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On 07/03/2019 08:27, Brian Gaff wrote:

with redesigned clip in outward facing strips, others say its false economy
, get new pvc ones due to the blocking of the cold in the frames now used.
However I'm not going to rush changing them!


Do you have a thermal break? A 4mm or so band around the edge of the
window - you'll probably be able to feel this as a depression on opening
windows.

4mm isn't the best thermal break, but when I did the calcs for mine,
it's not that far off modern standards.


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On Wed, 06 Mar 2019 18:46:07 +0000
(Alan J. Wylie) wrote:

I found this sliding patio door lock fitted on the house I've just
bought.

https://rfvt.org.uk/tmp/apprentice.jpg

I wonder if it would otherwise be possible to lift the door out of its
track (and off a normally positioned bolt).


I had another look today, in between lifting p*ss soaked carpets and
removing huge amounts of television cable.The lock mechanism consists of
a substantial horizontal metal protuberance (I can't think of a better
word, I'm afraid) extending from the frame, into which a bolt slides
upwards to lock the door.

There is no way that the pin in the photo would provide any extra
protection against the door being lifted.

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On 07/03/2019 19:32, Alan J. Wylie wrote:
Rob Morley writes:

On Wed, 06 Mar 2019 18:46:07 +0000
(Alan J. Wylie) wrote:

I found this sliding patio door lock fitted on the house I've just
bought.

https://rfvt.org.uk/tmp/apprentice.jpg

I wonder if it would otherwise be possible to lift the door out of its
track (and off a normally positioned bolt).


I had another look today, in between lifting p*ss soaked carpets and
removing huge amounts of television cable.The lock mechanism consists of
a substantial horizontal metal protuberance (I can't think of a better
word, I'm afraid) extending from the frame, into which a bolt slides
upwards to lock the door.

There is no way that the pin in the photo would provide any extra
protection against the door being lifted.


It stops it being lifted after they have snapped the euro cylinder.
They need a second lock on the bottom too to stop it sliding.

Of course the bottom one will do both jobs.

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It stops it being lifted after they have snapped the euro cylinder.


There is no euro cylinder. There isn't even a key. It can only be opened
from the inside.

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