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.)

  • HiddenLayer555@lemmy.ml
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    10 days ago

    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.

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    10 days 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.

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    10 days 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.