{"id":25215,"date":"2015-11-02T02:00:26","date_gmt":"2015-11-02T09:00:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/?p=25215"},"modified":"2015-11-02T08:52:41","modified_gmt":"2015-11-02T15:52:41","slug":"window-wedge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tkdev.kk.org\/cooltools\/window-wedge\/","title":{"rendered":"Window Wedge"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Recently my neighborhood experienced a rash of break-ins by people entering through ground floor windows.  Most houses in my area don&#8217;t have air conditioning, so it&#8217;s common to leave windows open for ventilation.  Unfortunately, if you have sliding windows, that means they are vulnerable to intruders.<\/p>\n<p>I have vinyl up\/down sliding windows, which are great because you can leave them closed at the bottom but open at the top for ventilation.  Unfortunately, many window security solutions don&#8217;t work with up\/down vinyl windows, as they are designed to lock the lower sliding window only, leaving the upper half vulnerable.<\/p>\n<p>Luckily, I found the Cresci Window Wedge, which solves that problem by using a simple wedge that jams the upper and lower halves of the window together when they exceed the travel distance that you set.  You can either open the top half a few inches, or the bottom half, but if you try to slide either half open too far, the wedge will keep either side from opening beyond the limit.<\/p>\n<p>The wedge is attached with a strip of Velcro, so if you want to open the window all the way, you can simply pull it off.  It&#8217;s easy to reposition also, so you can quickly change the secured opening size.<\/p>\n<p>I doubt that someone could force the window open with these installed without completely destroying the window.  Of course, they could just break the window pane to get in, couldn&#8217;t they?  But that level of deterrence is hopefully enough to get the bad guys to move on to an easier target.<\/p>\n<p>An easy to install, easy to remove, reasonably priced security upgrade for your vinyl windows.<\/p>\n<div class='ctx-module-container ctx_default_placement ctx-clearfix'><\/div><span class=\"ctx-article-root\"><!-- --><\/span>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A way to keep windows open but prevent break-ins<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":76,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false},"categories":[51],"tags":[],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tkdev.kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25215"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tkdev.kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tkdev.kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tkdev.kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/76"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tkdev.kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25215"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tkdev.kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25215\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25217,"href":"https:\/\/tkdev.kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25215\/revisions\/25217"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tkdev.kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25215"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tkdev.kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25215"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tkdev.kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25215"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}