Don’t y’all refuse to put screens in those windows, though? Having two or three different ways to let clouds of insects into yo house is not the height of residential technology.
My washing machine has doors like this 💀
They are called “casement” windows, specifically turn/tilt operation, and they do exist in the USA. They are typically more expensive than vinyl double hung, and home builders tend to shy away from anything “different” that might scare away home buyers. That’s why you don’t see them very often.
But if you want them, you can buy them and have them installed. You can even get them in patio door sizes, but the larger the door, the heavier it is when it tilts.
It’s really common for people unfamiliar with the door function to lift the handle and think it’s locked, and then a strong breeze blows the door inward. Between the noise and seeing the door falling inward, it can be pretty scary.
Source: I worked in construction in the US with European builders who loved these things and couldn’t figure out why Americans didn’t.
My expensive vinyl double hung windows in my previous house actually had a casement-like feature and I could easily remove either part. I loved those windows; I wish I could have taken them with me.
I have windows like this in America. But you need 3 hands to work them. I’d kill for a simple lever like that.
You should be able to tilt or turn from the handle. Is it too heavy to maneuver with one hand?
In Italian and French they are caled “Vasistas”, from the German “Was ist das?” (What’s that?), it’s said they called it that way because the first German tourists who saw those windows in France were confused and kept asking for clarifications on how they worked.
vasistas
https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/vasistas
its real, though not necessarily the type of window that you described. also exists in Turkish. i have a Turkish colleague who was very proud to explain the origin of that word to us in Germany :D .
Interesting. Like I said in another comment in Italian it means exactly what I said. From the first line on the topic on Italian wikipedia:
A vasistas (also written wasistas) is a type of window that is also opeaneable on the inside […]. The system allows the door to rotate down and the opening is delimited by special stops, called opening delimiters.
But apparently, after reading the French wikipedia page they use that word for something else. So it appears that we did steal the word from them, but used it to describe something different.
In France, a vasistas is a velux roof window. The windows in the picture have been our regular every day windows for a few decades.
Oh really? My bad then. We call those windows from the pic “vasistas” in Italian, and I was always told we copied that word from the French. I just checked whether such a word existed in French, saw that it did, and didn’t ask any further questions.
I had to check and apparently a vasistas is originally a transom windows and I’ve one on my house front door. It’s the window panel there is on some doors with worked iron on the other side that you can open but won’t allow people from outside to go in. Historically, people didn’t open the full door when people came to their house, just the window part and German would say was ist das?. And when modern velux windows become popular, they were also nicknamed vasistas by older people for some reason? None of this makes sense.
AFAIK we also call them velux windows in the UK.
I want this want this to be real and will not investigate further.
It sounds so real!
This isn’t even counting the metal window shades. I miss those things so much. Absolute dark.
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If you’re wondering why metals tend to absorb wavelengths more than reflect.
Most of them are made from plastic.
I mean, also it completely covers the entire window with no gaps.
Can do that with other materials pretty easily
My local home store has cloth ones that are measured to your window and have rails, you just slide them down over the window and it blocks the light 100% eithout heating as much
o yaya as long as it has rails, prolly great! That style is just not nearly as common here from what I’ve seen. I have not had the same curtain experienceoutside EU. I feel like it’s one of those things that’s hard to explain.
Mine wasn’t fancy electric like this one, but even so, it’s so magical to live that life: https://youtube.com/watch?v=QpRg3648gBY
That looks like a safe house mechanism.
How much are they paying for Windows?
I can have glass cover the entire window without gaps. You get where I’m going with this?
No.
uhhh… what? I’m not trying to disagree with you about the transparency of metal… I’m just saying that I’ve seen a lot more blackout curtains that miss a spot than I’ve seen full-coverage curtains that let light through.
Love those windows when travelling, but I have yet to see windows that open to the inside here in Ireland. Not sure whether it’s one of those crazy building regulations like no power switch or outlet inside the bathroom or auto-closing inner doors to each room.
Nah, limited opportunity to use them. It’s the weather man… ;)
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Same in Russia
What’s so special about this simple mechanism? Even 50 year old windows can do this here.
Its not special, but also not really common outside of Europe, at least thats what i heard
They are also everywhere in the ex-USSR countries. I think, China, too, has them, based on the rental properties photos that I’ve found. I also looked at rentals from India and found lots of them seem to have those weird windows with bars, but on the inside(?). Does anyone know what’s up with that?
I really liked those windows when I was visiting Europe.
We have them in the UK as well. Makes a very useful fire escape.
Brit here, all the windows in my flat have this system.
Must be a pre-Brexit window.
You know it.
Glad they’re gone
Edit: -6 votes? 😅 Geez Lemmy is even faster at jumping to conclusions than Reddit!
The Brits?
No, those new-fangled bureaucratic politically-correct continental windows from the EU.
…this is a joke right?
Yes duuh
Honestly I don’t know with any of you people anymore.
Klaus Fuchs gave them to you!
Traitor!
Everyone have these in Europe. So good. Can someone please find the patent to figure out who is the best euro country?
Inventor was Wilhelm Frank, 1937, Stuttgart, Germany
Shit. //jealous swede
Swede here. I recently moved to a new apartment. After 6 months I found out that my windows did this. Mind blown…
I have these windows. Perhaps not coincidentally the house was made by a German. The windows were fabricated in Canada though. The technology is leaking.
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When Germans start feeling power, the world buys more weapons and ammunition.
Who needs power when you can kipp your Fenster?
Have these in France too. I’d imagine most of Europe does at this point!
Where? I’ve never seen these in the south.
Wait until they find out our windows have a 4th setting as well 😎
The fourth is where you accidentally put the handle diagonally and all hinges unlock except one bottom corner.
Yeah, I came here to ask if the window falls out if you accidentally turn the handle while it’s open from the 2 to the 3.
No it has a ventilation mode at 45 degrees.
it can happen with old windows but new windows generally have a way to prevent that
I have it in my house, its very useful because I don’t have to open fully the window, or having the wind move the door.
