Original question by @tetris11@lemmy.ml
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.
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.
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.
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
Germans with 3D windows don’t count.
LMAO they are the only ones that count!! 😁😁
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!
48" (122cm) diameter so anything is possible! :)
That’s pretty!
Kind of why we bought the house. :)
Mine all slide, they don’t swing. Either up/down or left/right
I thought this question was going to be about whether they opened outside or inside.
Up, or down.
Slide up down, flip a latch and it tilts, flip a different latch and it swings open.
All of mine are casement windows. The taller ones hinge open to one side and the shorter ones hinge open from the bottom.
Mine are unusual, in America anyway. The bottom slides up, typical. You can also tilt the bottom inwards from the top. Being that this is a Habitat home, the windows are also energy efficient. They’re cheap with doorknobs and faucets, but they go well over code on insulation and structure.
Mine are the same but the top tilts inwards from the bottom
Mine have a crank and opens like a door. It’s awful. You can’t fit a window ac or a portable ac setup in it. I had to get a custom acrylic cutout sized to replace the screen.
Front of the house inwards, back of the house outwards except for upstairs, there it’s always inwards. Same with doors. Back door outwards, front door inwards.
New windows! Just over a year old, they all open outwards with the hinges on the wall sides.
I looked at getting tilt and turn ones, but I could get triple glazed normal ones for like half the price.
