With the onset of cold weather, all flaws of our windows become noticeable.
Drafts that walk through apartments, no heat - the cause of all this can be incorrect adjustment. It threatens you not only to drafts, it may be lost and the appearance that, of course, will not improve the interior and design of the whole apartment. Adjusting aluminum windows partially performed independently.
Regulation with your own hands takes quite a bit of time.
You need to pay attention to the windows not only in connection with the first frosts. The fittings are pretty simple and understandable. Therefore, you should not immediately run to the phone and call the wizard to repair and configure such elements. With some problems you can figure it out.
First actions
To begin with, get the instructions for adjustment, it is mandatory displayed during installation. If you do not have, then you can contact it to the firm that installed you windows. Or to the store where such products are sold, there you can make a copy of the instructions. After her thorough study, you can be taken for affordable troubleshooting. If you are not sure what they are, then look at your windows more closely, it is possible that something requires repair.Main solutions
On many aluminum windows on the accessories there are adjusting nodes, which makes it possible to achieve high accuracy when adjusting.
So how, without waiting for cooling, determine if you are correctly adjusted by the window? There are several signs for which it is easy to understand that you are not all right with the setting.
- Schedule. It is easy to notice this problem. Even with the slightest savage, it will noticeably with a more attentive review. It threatens you not only with drafts, but also scratching surfaces, which will also have to correct. Eliminate this problem can be ordinary hinge tightening. To do this, unscrew the decorative panel and pull the bolts.
- Poor work latches and loops can be the result of the absence or lack of lubrication. You can also eliminate it just as simple: use machine or any other technical oil for lubrication. For normal operation of windows, you need to lubricate them only twice a year. Do not forget to carefully remove dirt and dust before lubricant.
- If a handle broke, then you can replace it yourself. To do this, you need a plate at the bottom of the handle to rotate 90 degrees. Under the plate you will find screws. Unscrew them with a screwdriver, remove the handle. After installing a new handle, secure it with screws and put the plate into place. In addition to these ordinary for all nuances, each fitting has its own features. In the instructions that were mentioned earlier, you will learn what kind of fittings you have.
- Accessories Poto - needs constant control, namely, you need to follow the wear of the main parts. Fastening problems are easy to eliminate, pulling up fastening screws. Well, and with the replacement of parts it will not work independently. Here you will need help professionals;
- Furnitura Winkhaus, Maco is a rather complicated design. In order to avoid problems, it is not recommended to repair independently.
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Features
The main advantages of sliding windows are simplicity of operation, ease of system and saving the useful area indoors.
Adjustment is quite accessible by a non-specialist. The main causes of their failure may be:
- incorrect or non-accurate operation;
- If the building is new, then its shrinkage is quite possible;
- incorrect or low-quality installation;
- marriage.
If sliding has become badly closed and slots appeared in the opening, then you should do with the setting. You will need a special hexagon, as well as instructions to know where to be adjusted. Now you need to carefully inspect the sliding windows, paying attention to the bottom and upper flaps. With the help of a hexagon, we adjust the screw, making the turn only in one direction. After that, we look at the result. Only a probe by a non-specialist will be able to determine which way it is necessary to rotate the screw. By closing and opening the window again, you will understand, in the correct direction you have twisted and whether additional scrolling is needed. A positive result will be dense fitting of the sash, no noise and drafts.
If the efforts you are attached were not crowned with success, then without calling specialists you can not do. Carefully follow their work in order to correct the problem on your own.