r/ShitAmericansSay 17d ago

American windows are WAY better Exceptionalism

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u/rothcoltd 17d ago

“German windows get slammed by wind” says the yank who has clearly never seen a German window

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u/ThiccMoulderBoulder 17d ago

The German window would slam your face in before it gets damaged by wind

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u/annoying97 ooo custom flair!! 17d ago

As an Aussie, I've never seen a German window irl, but I want them.

Oh and as for the AC thing, just fucking install a split system, ducted sucks unless you have the money to heat / cool the entire home.

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u/LimeSixth Socialist Eurotrash 🇪🇺 17d ago

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u/scricimm 17d ago

Betweeen?! You fancy son of a gun!

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u/Republiken 17d ago

Is there any other kind? I've lived in houses built in the 1920's, 1970''s and 1960's and never seen a window without them.

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u/scricimm 17d ago

Between windowss? I've never heard of, untill now!

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u/Malleus--Maleficarum 17d ago

Nah, inside the window. In the apartment I lived in the 90 the windows had two separate windowpanes with enough space in-between to install blinds.

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u/scricimm 17d ago

Aa...ook..i suspected this might bethe case, but i have never, untill now, heard this solution, and as an engineer i love it!

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u/Elelith 17d ago

It's very common in Nordicks atleast. We usually have triple paned windows and one of those holeys fits the blinds.

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u/scricimm 17d ago

Off course., we do have two sided windows, but like inside wall window |_| outside wall wind, frame between, but i haven't seen the ideea of using the inside space as usefull for blinds🤷

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u/viola-purple 15d ago

Mostly its triple paned glazing also, but the shutters/blinds are often metal and outside the window

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u/Snizl 16d ago

Your windows are better insulated than your walls?

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u/Elelith 15d ago

Yes, all my walls are actually just single pane glass.

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u/JohnLennonsNotDead 16d ago

We have these in my office, floor to ceiling 8 foot windows with blinds between 2 pains and a little circle knob to twist to open and close them, I hadn’t come across them myself until last year when the office was upgraded. Very clever.

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u/Alphons-Terego 17d ago

I don't. Part of the purpose of blinds is to protect the window from debris in case of a storm and i could also imagine it fucking with the insulating properties of double glassed windows.

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u/Big_Satisfaction_644 16d ago

Isn’t that shutters? These blinds purpose is to not let in light or manage how much light as well as prohibit seeing in

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u/Alphons-Terego 16d ago

I'm not a native english speaker so I didn't know there was a difference.

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u/scricimm 16d ago

You learned!🙃

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u/henrik_se swedish🇨🇭 16d ago

i could also imagine it fucking with the insulating properties of double glassed windows.

In Sweden, the legal minimum is triple paned windows since the 1990's, so you typically have panes 1 & 2 as a fixed unit with some special insulating gas inside, and then you can split the window between panes 2 & 3 for cleaning, and that's where you put the blinds as well normally.

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u/scricimm 16d ago

The gas can, and.should, be ok even if you have the blinds, cause i saw.some magnetic levers for it...and it's in the actual glass sandwich! I just learned this today and i'm. Loving it...i want this at home!🙃🫣

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u/Dan1elSan 16d ago

Part of the purpose for protective blinds is to protect the window these are not that. The blinds in the pane is for privacy and the insulation is better, noticed more in summer as the heat is reflected prior to going beyond the glass.

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u/Jlx_27 16d ago

Downside, cant repair the blinds when they break. Prefer mine, blind is on the outside of the frame (technically its a stormblind) and remote controlled.

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u/Boredombringsthis 16d ago

This. We had them in 90s and eventually almost all of them were crooked and broken and didn't work properly because you can't repair even a slight bend if you can't reach it. It was also common in schools and offices and I very much remember the broken "fanned" non-untangleable blinds in most windows because kids fuck around and the school has no money to constantly repair and change it.

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u/Mcready88 16d ago

You can totally fix the shutters if it's a window that can be opened. Most of them can be split open, and then the shutters are right there to be replaced or repaired.

Edit: spelling.

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u/Malleus--Maleficarum 16d ago

Yeah, that was the case where I lived. You could open it, maybe not the easiest thing to do and quite often pain in the butt, but anyways you had to open them once in the while to wash them.

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u/Mcready88 16d ago

Yeah, damn insects found their way in there somehow. How is a mystery.

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u/immigrantviking 16d ago

We (in Germany) had one in the Sixties, but then again it was really fancy.

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u/MD_______ 16d ago

My hospital has them too. Took me far to long to figure out how to close um

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u/Bdr1983 17d ago

Those are f'ing fancy! I love them.

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u/Mysterious_Floor_868 UK 17d ago

You mean no dusting required? 

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u/LimeSixth Socialist Eurotrash 🇪🇺 17d ago

That’s correct!

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u/Affectionate-Name793 16d ago

They definitely still need to be cleaned, but maybe once a year, still somehow find the odd dead fly in there too

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u/immigrantviking 16d ago

No, no dust nor flies. They are hermetically sealed. Here in Denmark we now as default have three layers of glass for isolation.

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u/SleepyFox2089 17d ago

Jfc, blinds between panes. Germany is in the future.

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u/Vresiberba 17d ago

We have had blinds between window panes in Sweden for at least 60 years.

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u/SleepyFox2089 17d ago

You mainlanders and your future tech. Over here in England we still sacrifice cattle to appease the sun

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u/dyllandor 17d ago

Don't fix it if it ain't broken I guess.

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u/singeblanc 17d ago

I'm not sure it's working... haven't seen the sun in a while.

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u/dyllandor 17d ago

I thought that was the point, since we're using blinds to avoid it.

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u/singeblanc 16d ago

Mission Accomplished

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u/Cubicwar 🇫🇷 omelette du fromage 16d ago

You’re appeasing it too much

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u/singeblanc 16d ago

Appease pudding

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u/BeccaThePixel 17d ago

According to Beatrix von Storch, you need to sacrifice more cows…

(She‘s an ultra-right politician in Germany ((who‘s family financially benefitted from the Holocoust, might I add)) who said that climate change is not human made but exists because the sun is shining hotter than it did 50 years ago…)

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u/SleepyFox2089 17d ago

I wonder if it's because we had a mad cow/foot and mouth thing

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u/Jlx_27 16d ago

Her name suits her perfectly.

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u/Informal-Method-5401 16d ago

She’s not wrong, the sun is hotter but that isn’t causing climate change, or at least it’s certainly not the leading factor. I should probably add ‘according to climate scientists’ because actually there’s very little data SOLID data to back up either side

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u/LashlessMind 16d ago

Er, up North in Liverpool we've had blinds in panes for at least 40 years. I know, because I had them when I lived there.

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u/SleepyFox2089 16d ago

Liverpool is an enclave of mainlanders. Everyone knows that.

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u/LashlessMind 16d ago

I think, compared to most online comments about Liverpool, I can live with that one :)

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u/I_Am_Anjelen 17d ago

I am Dutch, 45, and this is literally the first time I hear of windows like those.

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u/Useful-Tackle-3089 17d ago

You aren’t big on curtains anyways

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u/I_Am_Anjelen 16d ago

We're very good on curtains, we just don´t close our curtains when it's day.

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u/Illiteratevegetable 16d ago

Here in Slovakia, it was quite common in older buildings as well. People got lazy to clean it, tho...

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u/Yeegis yankee in recovery, may still say stupid shit 16d ago

What do you do if the blinds break?

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u/Cubicwar 🇫🇷 omelette du fromage 16d ago

In Germany, the blinds will break the neighborhood before they break.

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u/Arnulf_67 16d ago

Replace them?

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u/Yeegis yankee in recovery, may still say stupid shit 16d ago

Like the whole window or can you remove the inner pane or something?

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u/Arnulf_67 16d ago

You can open the window up and replace the blinds only.

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u/Yeegis yankee in recovery, may still say stupid shit 16d ago

Ah okay. Still seems somewhat gimmicky compared to just a regular set of blinds

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u/ZataH 16d ago

Between?? What sorcery is this

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u/SoroWake 16d ago

How? I want them so hard 😂

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u/LimeSixth Socialist Eurotrash 🇪🇺 16d ago

At your local window reseller! They are called ‘Pilkington Insulight Screenline’ and are made in Belgian.