Does anyone have a recommendation for securing a casement window with screen? The screen easily pops-off the window frame and there isn’t a lot of room between the window, the screen or, to complicate matters, my california shutters. I’m attaching a couple pics. Wonder if anyone here has had to come up with a solution for their scenario.
I could place contact sensors on the screen frame and the window frame which would allow me to open the window in the summer and still have the sensor to detect entry when the screen is removed (bonus for being able to have windows open) but if they cut the screen then, that’s worthless.
Not sure if that’s the best way to secure these kinds of windows. I have pets so motion sensing isn’t reliable (cats and dogs).
So if I wanna break in I should look for contact, see it and decide to cut screen and leave frame in place.
I would add reed/magnet contact and maybe run it in series with a wire woven through the screen if possible. Not sure how I would actually do this but years ago I installed alarms and customer purchased screens that in fact had a wire woven through it. When cut the contact opened and ALARM. Since then this I have not seen a better idea for putting contact on screen.
As I mentioned in my original post, pets make PIR sensors very unreliable, at least for my use-case. This was what I tried first but the volume of false positives was unusable.
