What’s with all houses getting those nowadays?
For why these are superior:
Fully open mode = big hole for air go thru.
Slanty mode = very windy ez, rainy ez, rainy and very windy… just close window.
But, the innovation I miss more than the windows were the roller shutters.
First of all, light blocking. Forget blackout curtains or something, just roll down the shutters and no light is getting in. If you work nights or something, you can block the sun completely and sleep in the dark. Along with that, the light is being blocked while it’s still outside. Why does that matter? Light means heat. In summer you don’t want the heat inside. Block it at the shutter and it doesn’t come inside to heat the inside of the house. Compare that with blinds, curtains, etc. In that case, the light has already entered the house before it hits something and heats it up. With white curtains you’ll reflect a lot of the light back out, but you’re still heating the interior of the house. They also reduce noise, add security, protect in bad storms, etc. But, to me, blocking the light and keeping the heat out was so much more important.
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this is not a German thing. they exist outside of Europe, let alone Germany, as pretty much standard. I’m actually surprised if Americans don’t have to this. although I think shouldn’t be, considering in how many ways it’s such an ass backwards country.
these are far from standard for Americans. they’re luxury for sure and they’re called German windows.
From where I am from, they are called Plastic Windows. Seems to be they were indeed either created or made popular by Germans.
Somewhat reminds me of https://en.m.wiktionary.org/wiki/vasistas#Etymology
this is funny, because I’m pretty sure most sold in Germany are made in Poland. Not that Poland invented them or anything
My American windows can also do this if I push hard enough.
My drunkenly installed American windows (previous owner, not me 😉) ALSO do this, but randomly throughout the house!
Some are so tight you break a sweat moving them (“locked”), some are so loose the top part falls out (angled), and some work normally (the normal one I guess)
I mean. Yes?
I love these types of windows. Just need to add some mosquito/bug nets are you’re all set.
Guys, this doesn’t exist only in Germany.
source: I live in Eastern Europe and we have such superior window design.
Same, this is the default in Croatia
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Am American.
…What?
German windows are (like a lot of things in Germany) extremely well engineered. This is a point of pride and whenever I have hosted Germans at my house (I’m Australian) they have actually brought this up with me.
It’s become a bit of a meme.
So their windows… Open?
Two different directions depend on the handle orientation. The handle correlates to the pic below it.
Took me a minute.
We have those windows in Ireland, they are generally made and designed by Velux who are Danish.
I lived in Germany for several years and moved to the U.S. and purchased a “fixer-upper” home. On the docket for replacement were the windows. To make a long story short, the cost of replacing every window on the house with a normal American window was within ~$1k of the price of a single “German” window. The cost to replace all of the windows with the German style was nearly the total price of the home itself.
So yeah, I would love to have those windows, but they’re not made or at least readily available in US markets.
This. I have these windows in one room in the US because I installed them myself. IDK if they are significantly cheaper in Germany, but for the price to have one professionally installed in the US I could have actually replaced the entire wall with floor to ceiling windows.
Just checked a local factory, 50x50cm is 100 € for a regular window and 200 € to open both ways (entry level PVC, not including installation).
All in all it’s not unheard of for bigger jobs to be south of 1000 €/window for professional installation, though you can get them for half that if you know the right contractors.
Economy of scale magic
You can do the same with American windows–spend the cost of an entire house replacing your windows.
Andersen and Pella windows.
Now I wonder how much an American window costs over here
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We have these here in the UK but the mechanism is the other way round, so that it makes to sense 👍
What do you mean by the mechanism is the other way around?
Do you mean it makes sense like how your school lunch ladies appear to be called dinner ladies? That kind of sense?
Maybe it makes sense like how private schools there are called “public schools” and public schools are called “private schools”. I will never understand that one.
All meals in Britain are called “dinner” somewhere in the country :)
1st position detent = tilt (small opening).
2nd position detent = door (big opening).I get that “horizontal handle = door” kinda makes sense… But doesn’t feel intuitive to me
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It’s just in the direction you would need to apply force to open it no?
Don’t forget the mode where it’s anchored only in one corner and you freak out because you feel it will fall out any moment despite you know it won’t
Wait what? IS THIS A MODE AND NOT ME MESSING UP??
I feel like it’s a “can survive, but please fix quickly” kinda scenario.
I have no doubt the mechanism can support it. But used regularly will likely break something (where the entire fucking window falls into your room)That’s what they want you to believe
It’s one of the things everyone experiences but no one talks about
I experienced so many heart attacks for that damn thing and now i discover it was just one of the modes 😭
I’m still not convinced it’s an actual mode and not user error, that everyone hides under the rug by frantically pushing the window close somehow
Let’s just say it is an unintended mode
Wait, it doesn’t fall like that?
No, nothing will ever happen. Don’t worry
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The “ever” is maybe stretching it.
I think it can survive the occasional mis-opening. But I wouldn’t do it regularly, not leave it like that for a day.
Like “yeh, you’ve fucked up but I’m fine for now. Please fix me and never do it again” kinda scenario
Having 30 days of paid holiday per year is nice too.
And a 35h work week.
that’s in effect in Germany? They tried instating it here in Spain but Corruption industrial complex didn’t let it through
Not for all. But some of the big unions have them, so a lot of people get them, but not the majority of workers.
They try so hard to make forget WWII
The (by law) 35h work week is French, I don’t know if Germany has the same.
Nope, only in the good unions (IG Metall for me). Please support your union! Just pay the fuck up, it’s the only thing stopping these disgusting rich pigs from completely exploiting you.
French’s trying too hard to forget what they did to Mexico
30 days of paid holiday per year is unfathomable to me. I wish we had that here.
Working in the US with no holiday and dodgy health insurance is unfathomable to me.
And paid sick leave.
