Comment on Americans are asleep, post European windows

• FooBarrington@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  In Europe we use roller shutters for that

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  • lud@lemm.ee ⁨9⁩ ⁨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 ⁨9⁩ ⁨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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      • lud@lemm.ee ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Funnily enough we call the small thin ones in the picture I posted “Persienner”.

        They don’t provide any significant insulation but they can also cover the whole window and block light pretty well. Not perfectly, but good enough for most applications.

        If they aren’t enough for you, you can have specific black out curtains that either roll down or slide in front of the window.

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    • FooBarrington@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

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

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      • lud@lemm.ee ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Here, integrated window blinders are very common. But if you don’t have them you will probably use some sort of curtains (either normal or roll down).

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    • moitoi@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨9⁩ ⁨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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