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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.)
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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.
I thought this question was going to be about whether they opened outside or inside.
Up, or down.
Mine are all louvred with smoked glass.
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.
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.
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.
Slide left/right, but I do have one window that does not open at all.
That’s pretty!
Kind of why we bought the house. :)
Slide… left and right. What.
Slide left to open, right to close. :) Except the round one.
It doesn’t make sense–windows are typically taller than they are wide, unless you’re seeing them on a monitor. Are they wide?
Bathroom as an example:
Okay, this actually does make logical sense. They are indeed a bit wide. It does look aesthetically pleasing.
I kind of like it.
I also have windows that slide left/right. Specifically, the right side slides left to open, right to close. Two are “landscape,” one is “portrait” shaped. Then I have three sliding-glass doors, which work exactly the same way except for the latch, threshold, and the fact that the screen also slides. It may be relevant that it never snows here.
I have both of those sliding styles in my house. Kitchen windows are all side sliding, and are as wide as all other vertical sliding windows in the house are tall.
Except the bathroom, that one is half as tall as the tall ones/half as wide as the wide ones, it slides vertically.
All vertical sliding windows have the opening at the bottom, all horizontal sliding windows have the opening on the right.
West coast, USA.
That is literally even weirder.
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! :)
All of mine are casement windows. The taller ones hinge open to one side and the shorter ones hinge open from the bottom.
Germans with 3D windows don’t count.
LMAO they are the only ones that count!! 😁😁
I have sash windows, but I do love me some side-open crank windows.
Mine all slide, they don’t swing. Either up/down or left/right
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
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 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
