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Americans are asleep, post European windows

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Submitted ⁨⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩ by ⁨balderdash9@lemmy.zip⁩ to ⁨[deleted]⁩

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  • thorbot@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Imagine being a European and having your head so far up your own ass you start to disappear

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  • sic_semper_tyrannis@feddit.ch ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I tried finding a company who sold those windows in my city here in the USA and failed.

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    • TheSanSabaSongbird@lemdro.id ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      You need to go through a window company and have them custom-made. They’ll come over to your house and take measurements then build them at their factory and then install them. It will take a few weeks and will be expensive, but for my money it’s worth it.

      Where I live Andersen is probably the best as they come with a forever warranty on everything including the glass itself, but they may or may not be in your area. There are plenty of other reputable companies as well. Again, this is not a cheap option.

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      • sic_semper_tyrannis@feddit.ch ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Thank you. I’ll look into that option

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  • nifty@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Americans:

    Image

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    • baseless_discourse@mander.xyz ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Until a surgery

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      • franklin@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        I used to work for AT&t and it was all to common get someone cancelling while crying because their life is over and their credit is ruined because of the cost of a surgery that could never afford to pay. Sometimes we’d give them a couple months or something but a system like that shouldn’t exist

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    • Lightor@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Ya’ll ain’t seen the economy lately?

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  • tootnbuns@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Honestly, I think the verti slide windows make for a better breeze infrastructure than the tilt windows , because the tilt windows can be force shut by sudden strong winds.

    And in the summer when I need a strong breeze at night and have to fully open the windows, I have to hold them open with a chair or something because they will slam-shut in the middle of the night.

    I complain a lot about silly american building stuff but in the case of breezes, I think the verti slide is superior.

    Also, they’re more adjustable. Euro windows can do tilt or open, but the vertical slide windows have a range.

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    • GiddyGap@lemm.ee ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Yeah, it may have a sliding range, but only for half the window. The top part just stays closed all the time. The euro windows can open fully. That, to me, makes all the difference.

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      • tootnbuns@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        That is a good point.

        What about a double window, one EU and one US

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  • LemmyIsFantastic@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    You realize we have AC in Merica right?

    Like, have you been to half of Europe in the summer?

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  • lauha@lemmy.one ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Never seen a tilting window in Finland

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    • boredtortoise@lemm.ee ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Yeah but our specialty is triple panes. Insulation supremacy

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  • intensely_human@lemm.ee ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Over here in the USA, we “tilt” our windows on a vertical access, minimizing the effort involved to friction. We call it “opening” the window, because ergonomically it’s identical to opening a door.

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  • moon@lemmy.cafe ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    This is not a flex, these are just worse then sliding windows lol. Something like bidets are clear upgrades, but this ain’t it.

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    • rottingleaf@lemmy.zip ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      I live in an area with -30 Celsius sometimes, with sliding windows there’d be ice inside.

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      • moon@lemmy.cafe ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        How would sliding windows change that

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    • psud@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Agreed. A sliding window can be securely locked partially open. Tilt swing windows aren’t secure enough to leave a window open while away

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  • phoenixz@lemmy.ca ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    European Window frames are heavy and sturdy, many times with thick wood or metal. The window is double paned, sometimes tripple Most window frames I’ve seen throughout Canada, USA and Mexico, are mostly flimsy aluminium frames that can warp super easily, most of the time with a single window pane in it

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    • macbayne82@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      I can’t help but notice Phoenix in your username, you from the south? Because up north, you’d freeze with those kind of windows. Most here are wood or steel framed, and double paned.

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      • Ignisnex@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        I still get frost on the inside of my double paned windows up here in the great white north. No joke, windows are engineered to hell here

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    • TheSanSabaSongbird@lemdro.id ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      As someone with nearly 30 years experience in various types of construction, I can say for a fact that this is objectively incorrect. There’s a trope about any kind of social media content that touches on a subject about which one has real expertise, don’t remember exactly how it goes, but anyhow, let’s just say that the ignorance in this thread is absolutely astonishing.

      Go down to your local big box hardware store and try to find a single-pane window, for example. You can’t because nobody makes them. If you want a single-pane window you have to buy a sheet of glass and know how to install and glaze it yourself.

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    • barsoap@lemm.ee ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Aluminium frames are actually the most long-lived, also, in case you didn’t notice aluminium is a metal.

      Cheap European windows tend to be plastic, expensive ones wood or aluminium though the latter aren’t generally used in domestic settings. The plastic ones often have wood in them for structural reasons but it’s so ugly noone would ever expose it.

      Generally speaking the frames could hold longer if built better, but then you’d pay out of your nose for window panes that don’t fail earlier those inert gases aren’t easy to seal in for decades on end.

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  • Tier1BuildABear@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Am I the only American with tilting windows? We definitely have them

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  • Smokeless7048@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I love EU windows, and i looked at them when i redid my windows recently… but i just couldn’t justify the increase i price.

    Of course, my windows are horizontal sliders

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  • Dotcom@lemmy.ml ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I’m not sure why this would be an advantage? Does the tilt cause more draft than opening it a different way?

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    • hOrni@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Try any different way during a rain and You’ll realize the difference.

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      • Rodeo@lemmy.ca ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        It’s never warm enough when it’s raining to warrant having the window open though. Maybe if you’re in Arizona or the south of Spain.

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    • psud@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      It is a security opening. People cannot climb through a tilted window

      There are, of course, tools to defeat those windows since they’re popular.

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  • ExLisper@linux.community ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    If you want to really confuse Americans show them European showers. Imagine a shower with fixed pressure only…

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    • SpaceNoodle@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      TIL all Americans have showers with multiple pressure settings

      I’ve only been an American for a few decades, still kinda new at it

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      • Zorg@lemmings.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        They do? Practically all US showers I’ve come across, have this stupid shower single handle bullshit. Leave the shower on your preferred temperature between showers? Adjust the pressure of the water? Nah, that sounds stupid; why would anyone want that…

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    • TheEntity@kbin.social ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Wait, what?

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    • brianorca@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      There are plenty of options in the US for adjustable pressure. Mine has pressure on the big lever, and temperature on a smaller level. It even has pressure compensation when somebody flushes a toilet, so there’s no temperature change. But the type you show there does seem to be the default selection for new construction.

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    • TheSanSabaSongbird@lemdro.id ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      That’s not true at all. The ignorance in this thread is absolutely astonishing. It’s like you went to the US once, spent a week in Florida and now somehow think you’re an expert in American homebuilding techniques and practices. WTF?

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      • ExLisper@linux.community ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        It absolutely is true. I have a PHD in early XXI century north American showering practices and I know for a fact that 65% of showers in the North East and 66% of showers in the rest of the US look like this, thus, making it a typical American shower. I will admit that there is a debate within my field of research as to how how public and hotel showers should be counted but most experts agree with my position that what should be taken into consideration are the shower units, not the number of uses they get per year.

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    • TCB13@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      European here, I’ve had showers with multiple pressure and flow levels since… ever.

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  • notsofunnycomment@mander.xyz ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Tilt it baby

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  • fellstone@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    My windows can tilt. Not in the same way, but you can either slide them up or tilt them in. And besides, is being able to tilt your windows really that great?

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    • menemen@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Yea

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    • rottingleaf@lemmy.zip ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Sliding windows may not be optimal for a hard continental climate.

      For me it allows to not move anything on the sill while venting the room.

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      • Still@programming.dev ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        I can do the same thing with my double hung windows, just open the too

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  • Batman@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    What kind of klien bottle shit is this

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  • Argonne@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Today you chose violence

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  • Abnorc@lemm.ee ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Why would you post this while Americans are sleeping? These posts are clearly about flexing on the yanks.

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  • Ascend910@lemmy.ml ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I visited Bosten before, and if i can remember it right. Some of their windows can do that

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  • knightmare1147@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Cool, yes everyone knows the US sucks can someone help us who have to live in it now?

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    • XEAL@lemm.ee ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Bomb it and start over

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      • freedumb@programming.dev ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        No need for bombs. Give them 20-25 years and they will remove the ‘United’ part of The United States on their own and have to start over.

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  • abbadon420@lemm.ee ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Good morning Vietnam Europe

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  • dipshit@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    How well do these work in strong winds? Wouldn’t they just turn your light breeze into a strong breeze?

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  • A_Chilean_Cyborg@feddit.cl ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    They seem expensive.

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    • kamen@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Not really. What you see on the picture can be had for as little as like 200-300 EUR depending on the glazing, moreover it’s not something you buy every day - usually only when you renovate every 10-15 years or whatever.

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      • A_Chilean_Cyborg@feddit.cl ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        That IS expensive.

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  • nl4real@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    What the fuck? This is witchcraft?

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    • anarchy79@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      That’s funny you lot said the same thing in the 1600’s!

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      • nl4real@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Fucking witches stole my garden gnomes!

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  • KSPAtlas@sopuli.xyz ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Unfortunately windows in the UK generally cant tilt, likely since opening them wasn’t really meant to be common anyways (unfortunately climate change is making that more important)

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  • ordellrb@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    i leave my window open like this every night, even in winter

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  • Emerald@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    lots of non-house buildings in the usa have tilting windows.

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  • jaschen@lemm.ee ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    In case of fire, I rather have a window that doesn’t include an instruction manual.

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    • Siegfried@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      It’s easier than it looks like really

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