Trickle vents - yes or no?

lstar337

Torry_Quine wrote: »

I have them and they never whistle or are draughty. They are always open and I never think about them.

Same here. They aren't even worth the effort of worrying about.

They don't whistle.
They allow less noise than opening the window.
They allow steady ventilation.

SuzieSue

JustAnotherSaver wrote: »

I think we'll be leaning towards having them removed.

But why? You said in your OP that they stop condensation. I have never had condensation in my house eventhough I dry all my washing indoors on airers. I keep all the trickle vents open all year.

cyclonebri1

DRP wrote: »

but good double glazing and 'normal' humidity shouldn't result in loads of condensation.

Excess humidity or carp (single glazed) windows will give problems.

Exactly, that's the issue I was suggesting, there is an imbalance of 1 of the 3 elements I mention, that much condensation isn't "normal"

cyclonebri1

cajef wrote: »

Living in a bungalow there is no way I would leave my windows on the night/1st latch if we are not in the property and I am pretty sure any insurance claim could be invalidated or reduced if we did and there was a break in.

We have trickle vents and personally would not be without them, we don't get any noise, have no difficulty cleaning them and they have never been damaged.

But we also live in a dormer type bungalow, if we are out for an evening we lock the windows an the ventilation opening, don't know if the can all lock like that but ours do. Our weakest entry point would be a door round the back so not concerned to much

cajef

cyclonebri1 wrote: »

But we also live in a dormer type bungalow, if we are out for an evening we lock the windows an the ventilation opening

Locked or not it is far easier to force a partially open window than one fully closed.

cajef

Kiran wrote: »

Most manufacturers of windows meet secured by design and this includes when on the night latch setting. As such your insurance is still valid

I would be surprised if that is correct if a property was left unoccupied with the windows on the night latch setting.

ytfcmad

cajef wrote: »

I would be surprised if that is correct if a property was left unoccupied with the windows on the night latch setting.

Your quite right, the original quote is'nt true or accurate in a couple of ways.

phil24_7

I have trickle vents in 2 of my bedrooms as they both have 1.5m by 2m windows in them which are split 50/50, one side fixed and one side tilt and turn. Sometimes having such a large tilt and turn window open can cause the curtain to blow quite badly and I need a vented bedroom all year round. The trickle vent allows me to do this without the curtains keeping me awake! The bedrooms also used to suffer with condensation. since the renovations to the rooms, including correctly fitted windows (the old ones had daylight getting in around the frames!) we have not had any in there. Though once in a blue moon we do get some on the outside!!!!

Kiran

ytfcmad wrote: »

Your quite right, the original quote is'nt true or accurate in a couple of ways.

Multi locking point windows still engage all the locking pins when on the night latch. Therefore your window is still secure and your insurance is still valid. When you insure the house you select multi point locking pvc windows, this is what your insurance is based on and you have all these locks engaged.

Kiran

cajef wrote: »

I would be surprised if that is correct if a property was left unoccupied with the windows on the night latch setting.

You still have to get past the same level of security in terms of locking points. Look at the latch closest to the handle, when on the night latch you are locking into the same receiver