Comment on Americans are asleep, post European windows

• Swedneck@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  it’s inherently superior because you can have the window slam onto the fingers of a person trying to crawl in through the window

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  • FooBarrington@lemmy.world ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    In Europe we use roller shutters for that

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    • lud@lemm.ee ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      You can have them on residential buildings‽

      I live in Europe and I have only seen them in commercial settings to protect store and stuff.

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      • anarchy79@lemmy.world ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Those metal shutters, that black out the whole room? They have those in Portugal, Spain, most of the mid-southwest Mediterranean. France also. But they’re basically ubiquitous in Portugal. Pretty nifty actually.

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      • FooBarrington@lemmy.world ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        It’s pretty normal to have them on every window, at least in Germany

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      • moitoi@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        You can have them where you want. They makes some nice things nowadays.

        www.maisondustore.ch/uploads/…/Sans CFVGGF.png

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• TheSanSabaSongbird@lemdro.id ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  They open from the top as well.

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  • anarchy79@lemmy.world ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    At that point why do you even need windows?

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• AA5B@lemmy.world ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  The worse part is now they’re built cheaply so the screen is only the bottom half. You can still open the top, or from both top and bottom for convection, but now you get bugs

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  • oatscoop@midwest.social ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    If you get windows one step above “cheapest available” you get a moveable screen.

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  • SpaceCowboy@lemmy.ca ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Windows are the kind of thing that are generally built locally for multiple reasons. So your experience will vary greatly based on what the window factory in your area is doing.

    Where I live, single hung windows (only one sash) are most common, so only one screen is needed. Double hung windows are less common because people don’t want to pay for the expense of the additional sash (a lot of springs and mechanisms needed for a sash). A screen is an expense too, but nowhere near the expense of an additional shaft. Possibly the intent was to allow for opening the top to making cleaning easier, but that’s usually accomplished by having the top “fixed” portion of the single hung window be able to tilt out because putting all the springs and mechanisms for an additional sash for a feature to make it easier to clean isn’t necessary.

    Yeah… I worked at a window factory before. The calculations needed to figure out the tension needed on the springs so that it will counter the weight of the sash was fun.

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  • Boop2133@lemmy.world ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    It entirely depends on who installed the windows and what brand. Our windows are amazing and high quality.

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  • lud@lemm.ee ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    At least you get screens. Where I live mosquitoes are common and yet screens are very rare.

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• FartsWithAnAccent@kbin.social ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Ok, our windows can open from the sides or tops as well :D

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