My American windows can also do this if I push hard enough.
My drunkenly installed American windows (previous owner, not me 😉) ALSO do this, but randomly throughout the house!
Some are so tight you break a sweat moving them (“locked”), some are so loose the top part falls out (angled), and some work normally (the normal one I guess)
I mean. Yes?
I love these types of windows. Just need to add some mosquito/bug nets are you’re all set.
Am American.
…What?
German windows are (like a lot of things in Germany) extremely well engineered. This is a point of pride and whenever I have hosted Germans at my house (I’m Australian) they have actually brought this up with me.
It’s become a bit of a meme.
Shtatus
Guys, this doesn’t exist only in Germany.
source: I live in Eastern Europe and we have such superior window design.
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We have those windows in Ireland, they are generally made and designed by Velux who are Danish.
I live, laugh, and lüfte!
I was fascinated with the older windows in Denmark. It’s a simple design but has so many variations Unfortunately I can’t find a picture.
I lived in Germany for several years and moved to the U.S. and purchased a “fixer-upper” home. On the docket for replacement were the windows. To make a long story short, the cost of replacing every window on the house with a normal American window was within ~$1k of the price of a single “German” window. The cost to replace all of the windows with the German style was nearly the total price of the home itself.
So yeah, I would love to have those windows, but they’re not made or at least readily available in US markets.
This. I have these windows in one room in the US because I installed them myself. IDK if they are significantly cheaper in Germany, but for the price to have one professionally installed in the US I could have actually replaced the entire wall with floor to ceiling windows.
Just checked a local factory, 50x50cm is 100 € for a regular window and 200 € to open both ways (entry level PVC, not including installation).
All in all it’s not unheard of for bigger jobs to be south of 1000 €/window for professional installation, though you can get them for half that if you know the right contractors.
You can do the same with American windows–spend the cost of an entire house replacing your windows.
Andersen and Pella windows.
Economy of scale magic
Now I wonder how much an American window costs over here
Your dignity
We have these here in the UK but the mechanism is the other way round, so that it makes to sense 👍
Do you mean it makes sense like how your school lunch ladies appear to be called dinner ladies? That kind of sense?
All meals in Britain are called “dinner” somewhere in the country :)
Don’t forget the mode where it’s anchored only in one corner and you freak out because you feel it will fall out any moment despite you know it won’t
Wait what? IS THIS A MODE AND NOT ME MESSING UP??
It’s one of the things everyone experiences but no one talks about
I experienced so many heart attacks for that damn thing and now i discover it was just one of the modes 😭
I’m still not convinced it’s an actual mode and not user error, that everyone hides under the rug by frantically pushing the window close somehow
Let’s just say it is an unintended mode
Wait, it doesn’t fall like that?
No, nothing will ever happen. Don’t worry
CHAT, IS THIS REAL???
Having 30 days of paid holiday per year is nice too.
And a 35h work week.
that’s in effect in Germany? They tried instating it here in Spain but Corruption industrial complex didn’t let it through
Not for all. But some of the big unions have them, so a lot of people get them, but not the majority of workers.
They try so hard to make forget WWII
The (by law) 35h work week is French, I don’t know if Germany has the same.
Nope, only in the good unions (IG Metall for me). Please support your union! Just pay the fuck up, it’s the only thing stopping these disgusting rich pigs from completely exploiting you.
French’s trying too hard to forget what they did to Mexico
30 days of paid holiday per year is unfathomable to me. I wish we had that here.
Working in the US with no holiday and dodgy health insurance is unfathomable to me.
And paid sick leave.
My back door does this. No one knows how to use it besides me.
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Wait, doors can do that too? I have to try this on our door (I think it’s the same model as our window), so it might work.
Why is a normal window there? Or does it do something special?
They are all one window. You turn the handle in different directions to get it to do different things. The “normal” one is just shut and locked
Lemme clarify - do you mean just this (this is a normal window to me, common like sand).
These are extremely uncommon in North America, unfortunately.
