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.
“only” 20 of those by law, though. Most employers will give you more than that, but it’s not guaranteed
In Poland these are common too. I fail to understand why someone would not install these windows in the first place
Because my house already has windows
We have these windows, they are 35 years old and were most certainly not the first of this kind.
Yeah these windows already existed when wooden frames without seals and single panes were the standard. My grandmas house has them so basically at least for 50-60 years. There is no excuse not to have these windows other than cost savings. (Or non availablity or preference i guess…)
Bro. You should try linux.
That was my thought when I was living in Denmark. Why would You have windows that open horizontally to the outside in a country where it rains almost every day, when You can have these.
Bugs. Lots and lots of bugs.
Nothing prevents one from installing a screen on those windows.
I guess. Over here its more common to have the screen on the interrior to make the screens easier to replace and/or clean. Here, it’s common for houses to have a 2nd or even 3rd floor so it’s not always easy to be able to access the screen from the outside.
I have screens on my 3rd floor windows. Mine are attached to the window frame with long thin velcro strips but I think there’s other systems as well.
Do you need to remove the screen if you want to open the window?
The screen is on the outside. The window opens to the inside. So no.
For american ones where you have a screen on the inside I have seen crank handles to push window out, or some have a tiny screen door in the screen you can open to reach the window latches, then close the tiny access door. It looks stupid, but it does work
I think those are casement windows which are similar I think but not the same as tilt and turn windows.
Mine have hinges that open, you can remove them by pushing up to remove from the hinges. My parents have one with magnets, but i don’t recommend it. The magnets get rusty, and they aren’t that well attached, some screens fell and broke with stronger wind.
Just get a detachable screen? We had them at my family home?
I’m guessing that that is more annoying to operate. What is common here are casement windows which are operated with a hand crank so you dont have to remove the screen each time you need to open or close the window.
You can still have the screen on the inside with these tiltable windows…
I cant see how without needing to remove the screen each time. I probably need to see a picture.
I have an insect screen which can be glued to the inside like so:
(There’s a white velcro strip already there, which you glue on before this step.)
But yeah, it isn’t a given that it fits there. I have an ancient window, where they didn’t use plastic or rubber yet, so they tried to seal the window by having it contact right where you’d glue the insect screen and then it obviously doesn’t fit in between (I tried 🫠).
Did some quick research. It seems pretty difficult to install screens on these for some reason. So that’s probably why these are not common where I live.
Weird research you did there, we have screens, even different types and they take 5 min to install. Hardest part is cutting it to size.
I thought these were doors. Them being windows makes a lot more sense.
Balcony doors work the exact same way
Including down?
yeah
You’ve been on very different balconies from the ones I know.
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
I feel like it’s a “can survive, but please fix quickly” kinda scenario.
I have no doubt the mechanism can support it. But used regularly will likely break something (where the entire fucking window falls into your room)That’s what they want you to believe
Yeah! It’s the “you messed up mode”.
Wait, it doesn’t fall like that?
No, nothing will ever happen. Don’t worry
CHAT, IS THIS REAL???
The “ever” is maybe stretching it.
I think it can survive the occasional mis-opening. But I wouldn’t do it regularly, not leave it like that for a day.
Like “yeh, you’ve fucked up but I’m fine for now. Please fix me and never do it again” kinda scenarioPutting it back in place is kinda difficult, iirc. It’s a scary “oh, shit. Put it back, put it back” moment. It’s a lesson in not playing around wuth the door (ah, yeah, mine was a big balcony door window (small balcony, big door))
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.
Economy of scale magic
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.
Now I wonder how much an American window costs over here
Your dignity
You can do the same with American windows–spend the cost of an entire house replacing your windows.
Andersen and Pella windows.
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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Lustig aber fick nazis
Same, this is the default in Croatia
My father was a sales & marketing executive for a window company in Germany. You can prepare for a long rant whenever he sees “those dreadful sliding windows” in a TV show from the US or Great Britain. Like every time. 😅
Me, being smug about how I can have a bookshelf on both sides of the window and still open it fully without a large piece of glass protruding into the room:
But how can you stoßlüften your room efficiently without opening the whole area of the window?
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.
Haha yeah, my b. Most windows in NA just open up and down. If you are lucky, it will have a little release for it to open inward for cleaning, but I dont think its supposed to be used in that orientation. Doesnt seem sturdy
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 always wonder why are they associated with Germany. Aren’t they the standard in most of central Europe? We’ve had them in Poland since the 90s.
Because they were invented in Germany. But yes, they are the standard in most of Europe now, in some countries they are known as European windows
It’s like the French toilet, I mean the Danish toilet, sorry the Turkish toilet…
For why these are superior:
Fully open mode = big hole for air go thru.
Slanty mode = very windy ez, rainy ez, rainy and very windy… just close window.
But, the innovation I miss more than the windows were the roller shutters.
First of all, light blocking. Forget blackout curtains or something, just roll down the shutters and no light is getting in. If you work nights or something, you can block the sun completely and sleep in the dark. Along with that, the light is being blocked while it’s still outside. Why does that matter? Light means heat. In summer you don’t want the heat inside. Block it at the shutter and it doesn’t come inside to heat the inside of the house. Compare that with blinds, curtains, etc. In that case, the light has already entered the house before it hits something and heats it up. With white curtains you’ll reflect a lot of the light back out, but you’re still heating the interior of the house. They also reduce noise, add security, protect in bad storms, etc. But, to me, blocking the light and keeping the heat out was so much more important.
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Fr though I hate my shitty apartment blinds so much. It’s midnight with the lights off and blinds closed amd I can read next to the windows
The handles of the current generation German windows even have a 45 degree position; the window is then opened on a tiny slid.
We have those windows in Ireland, they are generally made and designed by Velux who are Danish.
Undeniably the best window design I have ever come across.
this is not a German thing. they exist outside of Europe, let alone Germany, as pretty much standard. I’m actually surprised if Americans don’t have to this. although I think shouldn’t be, considering in how many ways it’s such an ass backwards country.
edit: just want to clarify that I don’t know whether Germans invented it or not; by “not a German thing” i meant it’s not exclusive to Germany.
these are far from standard for Americans. they’re luxury for sure and they’re called German windows.
Somewhat reminds me of https://en.m.wiktionary.org/wiki/vasistas#Etymology
From where I am from, they are called Plastic Windows. Seems to be they were indeed either created or made popular by Germans.
These types of window are great until you want to get AC in a rental & realize that you now need to attach 1-2 hoses to them whilst also getting a good seal. Then you’d actually prefer the American style slide-up windows (ask me how I know) :/
