Original question by @[email protected]
To let a breeze into your room, do your windows open out from the bottom or the top?
If your windows are stacked (upper and lower) which part opens and which part stays fixed?
(Germans with 3D windows don’t count. Lüften is a weird cultish ritual and you should all feel bad.)
I do enjoy making people who don’t know about these windows have that momentarily freakout when they use option 1.
And you can continue the fun when they start experimenting with it and inevitably fall into option 1.5 and have the window hanging from one corner.
Oh no! I’d have to leave the room for that. I cringe way to hard every time anyone (or even I myself) gets a window into option 1.5 it feels like things are about to break very bad.
Seconded :3… I think all modern windows in europe do that
Not the ones in the UK. They often just have a tiny window that opens at the top.
Sweden chiming in, yes.
German living in Sweden here. Never seen them here (Stockholm area). I am sad.
As far as I understand the ones we have here are generally better for bad weather. Can leave them open even in some rain. Not sure I find it worth it though. I miss my German windows.
This is the correct answer.
Idk, they’re cool, but I kinda like sliders. I don’t have a window jutting out into the room
dont remind us of what we can’t have
I hate this style of window. I live in Europe and have plenty of them in my house. Compared to typical north American designs that slide up or down to open, you lose the ability to open your window varying amounts. Not to mention your air only comes in at the top and any desired draft is blocked. Fully opening them is a pain because they’re so large and need a huge sweeping area clear.
I feel they’re only really superior when you’re living 3+ storeys high.
Also, the lack of bug screens here is mind boggling.
i have this style of window and there are bug screens you can just insert into them here
Yeah, I had them made and installed in all of my windows, but that’s a rarity here even though mosquitoes are all over the place. I couldn’t imagine living without them.
What makes them better at higher altitudes?
Safer for kids and higher elevations are usually windier, so you wouldn’t usually want a direct draft, so the upwards venting is nice
I only have option 2, and would like option 1. But I can still open varying amounts, depending if it’s extra windy or not. The slide bar had adjustable tension.
Germans with 3D windows don’t count.
LMAO they are the only ones that count!! 😁😁
I thought this question was going to be about whether they opened outside or inside.
How is “lüften” a weird cultish ritual? I’m not German, but opening your windows in the morning and in the evening while doing things like brushing your teeth or showering seems pretty standard to me.
That would make the house hot af where I am. (Or cold af in the winter time)
Also, humidity levels would increase, not decrease, because the air conditioner dehumidifies.
…I suppose it’s not hard to guess that I’m in southern US. People sometimes die if their A/C breaks during a heat wave.
Fun fact: Florida used to be much less livable. Its population skyrocketed when air conditioning was invented.
Slide up down, flip a latch and it tilts, flip a different latch and it swings open.
Slide left/right, but I do have one window that does not open at all.
That’s actually a really neat window lol, I kinda want one now xD
But are you sure it doesn’t open? Maybe you need to hold a crystal to it at the right time of day so that sunlight gets focused by it and opens a secret portal to another better timeline!
Slide… left and right. What.
That’s pretty!
Kind of why we bought the house. :)
Mine all slide, they don’t swing. Either up/down or left/right
They don’t open “out”. The slide open in a frame, with a screen on the outside to keep bugs out. Mine slide left/right.
Up, or down.
You are missing the most important question:
- Do you windows open toward inside or outside ?
