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Hi i opened my window and a gust of wind blew it wide now it wont close please any advice
 

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I am guessing that you need to reopen it and try to coerce the right hand side to slot into the receivers in the frame.

Again, I am only guessing that the friction stay hinges might have become misaligned.

@crank39 might be able to offer sage advice
 
Hinges have been over extended and bent, unfortunately its going to need a pair of hinges now, a simple enough job for a window doctor/service engineer type outfit, expect to pay around £80+vat fitted

Its obviously a new build and the window is from Munster Joinery however the hinges are generic and are readily available from other places like screwfix ect, see my guide on hinge replacement on the windows and doors section of this forum, you will need to remove the opener but it looks like yours is triple glazed so will be extremely heavy, in all honesty i'd leave it to a service engineer and even then they'll probably remove the glass too
 
Hinges have been over extended and bent, unfortunately its going to need a pair of hinges now, a simple enough job for a window doctor/service engineer type outfit, expect to pay around £80+vat fitted

Its obviously a new build and the window is from Munster Joinery however the hinges are generic and are readily available from other places like screwfix ect, see my guide on hinge replacement on the windows and doors section of this forum, you will need to remove the opener but it looks like yours is triple glazed so will be extremely heavy, in all honesty i'd leave it to a service engineer and even then they'll probably remove the glass too
I am always amazed by your knowledge just identifying manufacturers from a photo on a forum and then giving exactly the information to provide the fix.

Well done - again.
 
I seem to have a photographic memory, I see and do things and it sticks in my head, a service engineer of 35 years and still remember my first week in the trade in 1990 at 20 years old yet some days I can't remember what I did last week, I remember nearly all the profiles I've come across, locking mechanisms and what fails and how its fixed, quirks of different profiles, seen more than enough bodges or work arounds in my time and worked out why they happened to do it that way, I don't know why I'm like it
 
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