Secure windows/front door for edge location

Well, if you want the protection, then I guess that's how it is.
A ventilation system is planned anyway. However, I can't quite understand the argument that it would then be mandatory. If you're not at home (working, traveling - whatever), you should keep the windows closed anyway. Proper ventilation doesn't happen on tilt but through fully opening, and that logically only happens when you're at home. When I'm away, I would lock up anyway; as long as I'm inside the house, I don't have to fuss with the key before and after every opening.
We will even have the window elements on the ground floor living area (except for the sliding door, of course) made "fixed," that is, without the possibility of opening. We find that nicer, it's cheaper, better sound insulation (each supplier says so), and better burglary protection (says the police because such elements tend to be avoided).
But I can already imagine that discipline and thus protection will suffer sooner or later. Of course, it's comfortable to always leave them locked and let the ventilation system do the rest. That's also one reason why we want certain elements to be "fixed."

I of course didn’t mean the tilt position. Ventilating would then be like this: get the keyring, look for the right key, unlock, open the window, go to the next window, look for the key ... close the window, look for the key, lock, and so on. That would annoy me in the long run so much that the windows would probably always be left unlocked outside of vacation.

I also can't imagine that anyone would practice it that way. Possibly with a master key that fits all the windows, but even that would be too much for me. Fixed windows, well. If something burns in the kitchen, it takes a while for the air to clear...

Yes, that may well be the case. I also hope that the ventilation system takes care of most of it. Otherwise, time will tell how disciplined it runs - at least I would like to have the possibility to close properly.


Fixed windows in the living room, in the cooking area you can of course ventilate through the window. And in the living room there is always the sliding door, in the kitchen logically an extractor hood. Of course, you can cook in a way that almost sets the place on fire, then you might better forgo windows altogether - or better yet, forgo cooking yourself. :D

Fortunately, I haven't burned down the place yet, although I started cooking with gas at around 10. Depending on what you cook, you can still smell it despite the extractor hood. I don't want to shout too loudly now, but sometimes I do wonder where some people live here that they need a fortress. I know there are more and more gangs and break-ins, etc., but I still find some things exaggerated.

That it smells a bit like food is okay. That comes with the open floor plan. The eating is done in the dining area in the living room, there is no table for eating in the kitchen.

For us, it's simply like this: dead end, last property, forest on one side, rails and industrial area behind us. The side and back garden are practically not visible to any other neighbors. I want to take some precautions here. Specifically, that means RC2, which also includes lockable window handles, and I don’t find RC2 exaggerated.

They say everywhere that you should get advice from the police. They say they can only recommend less than RC2 "where no break-in is expected." Where is that supposed to be?