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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. LΓΌften is a weird cultish ritual and you should all feel bad.)

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[–] CyberneticOwl@lemmy.world 4 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Nice try, Baba Yaga.

Now, the serious answer is a few windows slide sideways and a few others slide up and down. All have screens to keep bugs out.

[–] tetris11@lemmy.ml 2 points 6 days ago

You have sliding puzzle windows?

[–] BastingChemina@slrpnk.net 4 points 6 days ago

It's missing the most important question:

  • Do your windows open inwards or outwards!?
[–] handsoffmydata@lemmy.zip 2 points 6 days ago

The American way: up and down but it’s always closed because the AC is running.

[–] 6R1MR34P3R@lemmy.ml 2 points 6 days ago

horizontal slide only have one that goes up towards the outside on an upper bathroom

[–] altphoto@lemmy.today 3 points 6 days ago

Not like that. We don't wanna look like a communist.

[–] Defectus@lemmy.world 2 points 6 days ago

I just break the glass and replace it when I need to open the window

[–] disco 1 points 6 days ago

To add to this, which way your door swing

[–] Cobrachicken@lemmy.world 28 points 1 week ago (1 children)
[–] tetris11@lemmy.ml 11 points 1 week ago

YOU KNOW WHAT YOU DID

[–] Lumidaub@feddit.org 16 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I would assume most windows in the real world would be "3D windows"?

But anyway, fuck it *lΓΌfts your entire house so you get a Zug*

Stoßlüften FTW!

[–] Evil_Shrubbery@lemmy.zip 12 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

Just bcs I was curious what would an exotic image search yield:

[–] tetris11@lemmy.ml 5 points 1 week ago

This is too 3D even for me

[–] UltraGiGaGigantic@lemmy.ml 10 points 1 week ago (1 children)

The car I'm living in has a button that makes them roll down.

[–] tetris11@lemmy.ml 7 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Oh man, that's luxury. Did you make it yourself?

https://youtu.be/1uG6grzdUf8

Edit: Not trying to poke fun, I just loving sharing this clip with people

[–] HurlingDurling@lemmy.world 9 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

They slide up

[–] Zahille7@lemmy.world 9 points 1 week ago (1 children)

What's a "German 3D window"? I don't think I've ever seen one.

But the windows on the house I'm currently living in open similarly to the picture in your post, only sideways.

[–] tetris11@lemmy.ml 22 points 1 week ago (4 children)

This atrocity. This is what WW2 was about

[–] OnionMummy@lemmy.ml 14 points 1 week ago (1 children)

This actually looks amazing

[–] sxan@midwest.social 18 points 1 week ago (1 children)

They are. They're really expensive in the States, when you can find them, but almost every modern window (in Bavaria, at least) is one of these. They also come door-sized, so you can either open an outside door to walk through, or tilt it from the top to circulate air.

OP is probably just too dumb to figure out how to work them; they're fantastic, and I wish they were common here in the States.

[–] Hideakikarate@sh.itjust.works 8 points 1 week ago (2 children)

The fact that they come in door sizes is new to me, but that sounds magical. Now if only bugs didn't see a cracked door or window and think it's free real-estate.

[–] sxan@midwest.social 10 points 1 week ago (1 children)
[–] corsicanguppy@lemmy.ca 1 points 6 days ago (1 children)

These are amazing, but I couldn't get them to work right at a suite I rented. I couldn't remember the handle positions so I had to muddle through every time.

[–] sxan@midwest.social 1 points 6 days ago

It doesn't take long to get used to them, though, of you're around them all the time.

[–] SJSmith@lemmy.world 3 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Screens for keeping bugs out!

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[–] warm@kbin.earth 10 points 1 week ago (1 children)

That's pretty standard on most new window installs across Western Europe, it's not exclusive to Germany at all.

[–] CanadaPlus@lemmy.sdf.org 3 points 1 week ago

Austria getting away with the exact same crimes once again. /s

[–] QuestionMark@lemmy.ml 9 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Most windows are like this in my country. They are definitely not an atrocity.

[–] MrsDoyle@sh.itjust.works 5 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

I wish my windows worked like that!

Edit: And my DOORS!

[–] CanadaPlus@lemmy.sdf.org 2 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Doors, lol.

Fuck you, my house has a drawbridge now!

[–] MrsDoyle@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 week ago

Now there's an idea.

[–] HiddenLayer555@lemmy.ml 7 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

I live in Vancouver, Canada, in a townhouse with windows that swing out from the side like these:

See how little that window is open? That's very likely the MAXIMUM it can be open which is dumb as hell.

They also make it impossible to hang a window air conditioner which means you're limited to the significantly less efficient portable air conditioners. But even then you can't form a good seal between the exhaust pipe and the window, which make them even less efficient.

Fuck my windows. We're not allowed to change them even though we own the townhouse because the strata wants to keep all the townhouses consistent. So fuck stratas as well. And the worst part is I see these types of windows EVERYWHERE in new construction around Vancouver.

[–] corsicanguppy@lemmy.ca 4 points 6 days ago

But even then you can’t form a good seal between the exhaust pipe and the window

https://www.amazon.ca/dp/B07BPZGJ3B

[–] Today@lemmy.world 6 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

In the US - I just installed an awning window like that. My other current windows slide up from the bottom. When I replace them I will get double hung windows that slide both down from the top and up from the bottom.

[–] tetris11@lemmy.ml 4 points 1 week ago (2 children)

double hung windows

oh that's cool, never heard of that. The panes just kind of overlap in the middle if they want to

[–] grue@lemmy.world 2 points 6 days ago

Double-hung windows are probably the most common type in US single-family houses.

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[–] Ziggurat@jlai.lu 5 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

Both side ? Mine open either Up or right

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[–] ghashul@feddit.dk 4 points 1 week ago

My windows can open either to the side or kip, which is opening our from the top.

[–] BreadOven@lemmy.world 3 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (6 children)

Mine are attached on one side and open outwards. So when fully open (looking down from above) they make an L shape. There's a little like crank handle you rotate to open/close them.

I don't really like this style, but that's what came with the house.

Edit: They're casement windows, here's a pic:

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[–] Winthrowe@lemmy.ca 3 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Neither. One half slides left over the other half.

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Ours can open all the way either left or right side, or a bit on top (opens inwards on all sides). The way it opens up top is nice to get some circulation going, and is also secure enough to be still covered by insurance in unlikely event someone would break in (appartment is on the first floor, but somewhat elevated. Bottom of the windows are about 2m from the ground).

We also have a mesh on the outsite of the frame to prevent insects from flying in regardless of which way they open.

[–] monovergent@lemmy.ml 3 points 1 week ago

Both top and bottom, but opening the top half leaves a gap between the pane and screen while the mechanism for the bottom half is broken, so it falls back down unless I prop it up with a stick.

Open it at the bottom for a breeze, or at the top to let the stank out.

[–] CanadaPlus@lemmy.sdf.org 2 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Some that slide up from the bottom, and some that swing out like a door.

My last house had some like in your thumbnail, some ancient ones with (layers of) small windowlets that slid sideways, and some modern door-style ones as well.

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