So, I’m in this new apartment, and I’d like to manage to prop my bedroom window open a little at night - but not too much, since I’m not WAY off the ground level (I’m up a little, probably about 8 feet or so). I’d like to have the window open about six inches, but fix it so that it can’t be opened further (at least not easily), especially from the outside. Is there some simple way to do this?
How does your window normally open? Does it slide left to right, up and down, or is there a crank to open it?
Go to the craft or hardware store. Buy a 1" wooden dowel or a piece of 1"x2" lumber. Cut 1 piece to the length you want the window open to. Prop up the window with it, then measure between the top of the now open window sash and the top of the window frame. Cut the rest of the dowel to this measurement and wedge it between the top of the sash and the frame.
Alternatively, buy a couple of small metal L shaped bracktets and screw them to the window frame at the height you want the windoe to stop. More destructive (it’ll leave holes in the frame when you move out), but more secure.
It’s an up-down window.
that_darn_cat, the dowel sounds like an idea - since the complex put new windows into all the apartments within the last year, I don’t really want to start screwing stuff into the frames just yet!
Since there’s new windows, did you check to see if there is a lock already installed into the sash?
On our 5-10-year-old windows, there’s these little things on the sash about 3" up from the top of the moving lower window that when fiddled with will pop out and create a nice little lock for the lower window.
If the new frames are metal and slide in tracks, have you thought of window security clamps ?
Here’s another way, and it’s pretty cheap. Open the window to your desired height. Up near the top of the bottom sash, drill a hole through the bottom sash and into, but not through the top sash. Then slip a large nail or bolt into the holes. The “security bolts” will probably be to high for an intruder to reach. If both sashes fall at that point, You’ll have to secure one of them the the frame.