Question from resident (please respond in the comments):
“When I moved here 9 years ago, my upstairs window was glued shut. I let it be. Somehow it is now open and I know why it was glued. The problem is now I can not close it. Does anyone have experience with this and if so who do I call? It’s a little chilly and I need to get it closed.”
(Speaking from my own experience, the upstairs windows can be brutally hard to latch shut, assuming the latch is even intact. We have trouble with our own so I haven’t any useful suggestions myself. —admin.)
I lived here for 6 months not realizing my bedroom window was open 3″ at the top, until snow came in. Neither I nor my son were able to shut it, but the handyman I work with did it in 10 seconds and latched it. You may not want to pay for this service, but if you’re desperate his name is Yey (yay) yjcontractorservices.com.
Good luck!
They can be really tricky to shut, it’s heavy and the leverage is very unfavorable. What unit are you in – I’d be happy to come try and help today.
I thought I responded to this. Thank you so much. I am in 213. I won’t be home until later tonight but would tomorrow night work ? I can be home by 5
it’s possible that it may be that the ballasts in that window are too tight (if they are too loose, you have the opposite problem – that the window will not stay open and, in fact, will slam shut; and you don’t want that either because any body part in the way of that window could be damaged because of the weight of our windows). The company that knows our windows the best – as far as I’m concerned – is City Mirror here in Lowell. Best of luck!