TakeshiKovacs

Our property has older double glazed units with no ventilation/trickle vents in situ. The main frame material is aluminium. The rest of the house has no explicit ventilation, except for a continuous extraction fan in the bathroom (providing trickle extraction and boosting when either humidistat or light switch triggers it). In the colder months we do get a fair bit of condensation on the bedroom windows each morning. Mindful that we need a combination of passive/active measures to combat this but as a first step, can those frames be retrofitted with trickle vents of some kind and has anybody actually done this?

Yes the slam locks with auto locking are rather slick. Sadly not supported at all on their doors to my knowledge.

On a front door, yes indeed.

Some multi point locks allow the key/thumb turn to retract the latch. No idea if that's the case here.

So we're considering a Latham's steel door as a replacement for a hideously warped timber front door. Whilst looking at the locking/handle options they provide there's one thing I've noticed which seems like a genuinely massive oversight. Their main options for lock gearboxes are by Hooply, no issues with the brand itself but the oversight relates to the handle operation. The normal lock has a solid spindle, meaning that the external handle will always retract the latch. With that, if somebody leaves the house (like say a child heading off to school) , when they close the door behind them anybody can now open it from the outside (and no they wouldn't be given a key to lock the door with before anybody suggests that). Even their panic lock that allows unlocking from inside without a key and has split spindles, the external handle always retracts the latch. 🤦‍♂️ That's fine for a garage or a back door, but not for a front door. The alternative of having no exterior handle means a blanking plate which doesn't look great. Anybody actually have one of these on their front door and how have you found it in practise?