How to Fix a Single Hung Sliding Window | Removing the Channel Balance For Repair or Replacement 

This window has never worked right, fortunately it was an easy fix! Edit: It's called the channel balance not balancer. 🙂🏜️

Red, I cannot say this often enough, you belong in a classroom preferably in a trade school. Your empirical approach as an educator is excellent. Wishing you and April a blessed week, gentle autumn weather and restful evenings. Peace

I always wondered how those worked, thanks for the great explanation!!

I've never seen that before. That's neat to see how that all works.

Thank you so much, was a 15 minute fix once I watched the video. I had no idea what those hooks were for. My friend said he paid $80 for a window guy to come out and fix the same issue…and it took the window guy less than 10 minutes.

Nice! That made it easy to replace the channel balances!

Great demonstration.

Thank you Red! By far the best explanation as to how to install/remove the channel balancers. You nailed the 3 crucial steps, the top clip open/close, the channel balancer bottom hook first and loading the spring before putting in the top clip, install the window "above" the bottom of the channel balancer. Pretty straightforward, however I had the big size window, and it is a bit of a balancing act getting it above the channel balancer to get one side in.

Good job explaining this procedure!

Great insight. Thanks for sharing.

great information and please have a great day

❤great advice thanks!

Thanks!!!

Awesome ❤

Thank you

Thanks for that insight,. You didn't show it but I assume there is a similar balancer on the other side?

I guess a broken calendar is right once a year. HAHAHA!!

On my moms window, the channel balancer is all the way up on one side when the window is closed. So its not in the window anymore. Does that mean the spring is damaged or broken? We have yet to take the window apart as both her windows are like this, but one still opens while the other doesn't. The one that still opens, however, is a...its a pain, so she doesnt open it except a few inches. She's afraid she wont be able to close it again. I wanna tinker with both windows, but she's apprehensive because she's a fraid we wont be able to put it back together. Lol

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Can you buy new channels?

That was a great lesson Red 👍🪟👍