Jokes on you, my windows make a light breeze when shut!
In America we have to keep our windows closed to keep out the fent smoke and bullets.
your walls won’t save you from the latter tho
Bullets are not ghosts, they can’t go through walls, stupid
They can go through shitty American drywall
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If bullets can go through drywall then why am I allowed to shoot anyone who enters my home? That would clearly be dangerous /s
Rifle rounds will go right through brick too unless they’re as wide as cinder blocks and filled. Shit’s scary.
another brutalism W :hoxha:
I want all my architecture to look like the Forerunners built it
I think it’s a joke that American houses (in the eyes of Europeans) are made out of sticks (stud framing in the house) and paper (drywall is made from gypsum and has a paper backing)
In European countries, their houses are made of tougher materials like stone, concrete, or some other material I’m forgetting about
It’s a known thing in America that stray bullets end up in people’s houses (and sometimes their residents) when it’s an American holiday like 4th of July or Memorial Day
America tends to build with the cheapest materials. So wood framed houses are clad in wood or plastic
Australia copied a lot from America. Our houses also are wood framed, but we use brick cladding and concrete tile roofs
New tech is more available now. If I were to build today it would be out of foamed plastic and reinforced concrete (as insulated concrete forms). And I’d use tilt/swing windows
yeah in some states like the Tornado Alley or California (earthquakes) ig that might actually make more sense since sometimes such materials might withstand more force than brick
Not an issue in Australia, but I bet brick stops or slows bullets more than wood
Our brick construction doesn’t do well in earthquakes. If a roof is going to fall on you, you don’t want it made of tiles
I tried finding a company who sold those windows in my city here in the USA and failed.
You need to go through a window company and have them custom-made. They’ll come over to your house and take measurements then build them at their factory and then install them. It will take a few weeks and will be expensive, but for my money it’s worth it.
Where I live Andersen is probably the best as they come with a forever warranty on everything including the glass itself, but they may or may not be in your area. There are plenty of other reputable companies as well. Again, this is not a cheap option.
Thank you. I’ll look into that option
The cool thing about Andersen is that even if the glass on your window gets accidentally broken for whatever reason, it’s still covered by their forever warranty and they will come and repair it for free. The downside is that they are, again, very expensive.
I personally think it’s worth it and have Andersen windows on my house.
This is not a flex, these are just worse then sliding windows lol. Something like bidets are clear upgrades, but this ain’t it.
i leave my window open like this every night, even in winter
I’d settle for socialized healthcare
How dare you. Just for one second think of someone other than yourself. How do you think the pharmaceutical companies are gonna feel about that? Or their poor shareholders? Pfizer’s CEO only made $33 million last year. How the hell do you expect him to feed his kids when he’s not making that much because your precious healthcare system ate into his meager earnings. The medical corporations are barely scraping by!!
CEOChief Job Creator™FTFY
Oh the windows came as part of the deal.
No they didn’t. I’m in Canada and we have socialized healthcare and I didn’t get any damn tilting Windows.
I’ve been lied to!
Canada is like Europe with a couple wildcard American features baked in
Damn, that’s a tough decision
It’s the breeze, isn’t it?
Good morning
VietnamEuropelots of non-house buildings in the usa have tilting windows.
I’m fine. Central HVAC, no need for a breeze
Tilting you windows is a nice option that i rarely use. Most if the time its STOẞLÜFTEN as we germans like to say (opening the windows wide up to really let in all the fresh air).
Why would you post this while Americans are sleeping? These posts are clearly about flexing on the yanks.
Imagine not having screens in your windows.
This post was made by the flying insects gang.
I’m in the US and have these windows. They have screens. They’re also not that special. I prefer the regular windows
I have these windows in Moscow, Russia since recently (had old windows with separate wooden frames with thick glass made somewhere about 70s, they looked nice though) and like that I can use the sill as a table with laptop and tea and some stuff now, and tilt it instead of moving the laptop aside.
Ah yes, the good old Russian defenestration windows. I assume you have the FSB-mandated variant that is capable of both tilting and swinging, for… ease of access?
My brain had a segfault reading your comment, because the approved ones would obviously not be “anti-defenestration”, but yeah, swinging is nice
Yeah, sorry, my dark sense of humour didn’t combine very well with typing it out before my first cup of coffee.
I was starting to wonder if Europe didn’t have insects, because the hotels I’ve stayed in (in Europe) that had them didn’t have screens for them.
We have civilized insects, they respect our privacy and don’t enter unless they must.
You’re joking but that’s basically it, it’s just not an issue in most places.
Imagine not having AC like much of Europe
Imagine not having enough insulation to need an AC.
Lol have fun cooking with global warming bro
opens 2 windows each on seperate sides of the house/apartment
Doesn’t work as well when it’s 115° outside like much of the US
It would be quite scary to see our lakes boiling
115° in moron units, not Celsius.
Maybe isolate your house and turn off the AC and delay global warming for a bit then
He says, while being the cause of global warming with 24/7 AC.
Lol what a tool. If I have 100% renewable energy at my house how’s that contributing?
Energy is only a part of the equation.
“Much of the existing cooling equipment uses hydrofluorocarbon refrigerants, which are potent greenhouse gases, and use a lot of energy, making them a double burden for climate change. Even with the phasedown of hydrofluorocarbons required by the Kigali Amendment to the Montreal Protocol, business as usual means emissions from refrigeration and air conditioning are expected to double by 2030 and triple by 2050, rising from 7 per cent of global GHG emissions today. Right now, the more we cool, the more we heat the planet. If we are serious about reversing current trends, we cannot go about cooling our planet with a business-as-usual approach.”
https://www.unep.org/news-and-stories/story/air-conditioners-fuel-climate-crisis-can-nature-help
The amount of energy wasted in America for all the houses with AC they have, could have propelled an entire society to Mars.
Sometimes you just don’t need it
Especially if the house is old, made with stones!
Yes, temperature difference inside to out is amazing with solid masonry and ceiling insulation. No AC required.
Disagree. I’ve found stone brick houses to be unbearably hot in the southern US. They turn into an oven.
I’ve never seen actual stone houses in north America, only those fake panels on the outside. Bricks are different and require additional insulation, usually you get 2 layers with insulation in between.
There are plenty here in the south west
Looked it up, didn’t find much but did find this, these look like made of stone indeed but maybe it’s because they’re thinner? When I think of stone houses I think of things like this with very thick walls, we have these in all the really hot countries like Italy, Spain, southern France etc and I can confirm they stay cool inside even when it’s 40°c outside.
Or you live in Minnesota, where half the year it used to be unbearably cold so you needed central heat. Then half the year it was so goddamn humid and hot we needed central AC, or at least a window unit.
We do get the benefit of having homes with a basement implied to protect both the pipes from freezing and our necks from tornadoes in December now
I live in Minnesota. It’s not quite as bad as you say. Opening windows overnight and closing them in the morning works pretty well to keep the house comfortable for most of the summer…well, except when we’re inundated with smoke from the wildfires.
Lol wtf? Why can’t you get a light breeze without tilting windows?
The idea is protection from crime. You can have the window tilted and thieves theoretically cannot climb in through that window, where a swinging or sliding window while open allows someone to climb in through it
Of course in practice they’re less safe where they’re popular as there is a tool, a hook, which allows someone breaking in to hook the handle, pull the tilted window shut, and open it again in swinging mode, allowing them in
My understanding is sliding windows are the easiest to secure as you can bolt lock them at any point of openness. My sliding windows have bolt points at closed and at 5cm open
Yeah I’m a little confused too. The thing with windows is that you get what you pay for. It’s ridiculous to think that there’s some kind of window design that’s magically available in Europe but not in the US. There are probably designs that are more common in different parts of the world, but it’s absolutely not the case that if a homeowner wants to pay for it they can’t get whatever they want in the US.
I have to think this post was made by someone who knows nothing about construction.
European Window frames are heavy and sturdy, many times with thick wood or metal. The window is double paned, sometimes tripple Most window frames I’ve seen throughout Canada, USA and Mexico, are mostly flimsy aluminium frames that can warp super easily, most of the time with a single window pane in it
Aluminium frames are actually the most long-lived, also, in case you didn’t notice aluminium is a metal.
Cheap European windows tend to be plastic, expensive ones wood or aluminium though the latter aren’t generally used in domestic settings. The plastic ones often have wood in them for structural reasons but it’s so ugly noone would ever expose it.
Generally speaking the frames could hold longer if built better, but then you’d pay out of your nose for window panes that don’t fail earlier those inert gases aren’t easy to seal in for decades on end.
I can’t help but notice Phoenix in your username, you from the south? Because up north, you’d freeze with those kind of windows. Most here are wood or steel framed, and double paned.
I still get frost on the inside of my double paned windows up here in the great white north. No joke, windows are engineered to hell here
Frost on the inside indicates it’s not properly sealed, as far as I seem to recall. But I’m no window expert (I use arch btw).
As someone with nearly 30 years experience in various types of construction, I can say for a fact that this is objectively incorrect. There’s a trope about any kind of social media content that touches on a subject about which one has real expertise, don’t remember exactly how it goes, but anyhow, let’s just say that the ignorance in this thread is absolutely astonishing.
Go down to your local big box hardware store and try to find a single-pane window, for example. You can’t because nobody makes them. If you want a single-pane window you have to buy a sheet of glass and know how to install and glaze it yourself.
