Can't for the life of me work out how to do this, I want to flip them round to give them a clean.
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Velux windows - How do you release the opening-limiter?
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Posted 3 years ago #
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If they are like mine, they have a very fiddly bracket to push on the hinges (both have to be done together too). And even fiddlyererer to put back again.
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mine had a grey plastic slidey thing somewhere, can;t for the life of me remember where it was though
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And then you chop your fingers off
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Isn't the grey slidey thing to fix them securely open by a couple of inches?
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What sort are they anyway? Top or middle opening ones?
Our old ones just pivot in the middle so dead easy. Our new (conservation low profile) ones open at top or middle. To open one way the vent (the big grab bar at the top) opens one notch, to open the other way the vent opens two notches
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you are right mastile, it was to lock them. I also seem to rmember that you just pulled the openeing bar further to spin them
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Middle opening.
When you open them there's a grey slidey thing at the top, I think this is for a vent or something, I can't really see for the blind fitting.
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Won't the middle opening ones spin around enough to clean them anyway? Ours do.
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On ours you pull the long grey bar at the top [the night vent setting] and keep on pulling. Once it has rotated fully there is a bolt that slides across from the top of the window, cant see this till its at least half rotated that can be pushed sideways like a gate bolt into a hole in the window casing to secure the window upside down for cleaning
Tracey
PS Now have to clean the bathroom floor cause all the rain has come in
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We have a 10 year old pair and a 2 year old pair, to spin them right round you just do that, spin them round and use the grey slidy thing to latch them. The slidy thing will latch them at about 2" open, but spin the window right round and the same slidy latch will now locate at the bottom of the window frame so you don't have to hold the window whilst washing it.
The buttons on the hinges are to remove the window from the frame completely I think, so go careful as it might fall on you! They are very heavy, even the smallest ones!
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Hit 'em with a hammer.
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