Original question by @tetris11@lemmy.ml
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.)
I do enjoy making people who don’t know about these windows have that momentarily freakout when they use option 1.
And you can continue the fun when they start experimenting with it and inevitably fall into option 1.5 and have the window hanging from one corner.
Slide left/right, but I do have one window that does not open at all.
That’s actually a really neat window lol, I kinda want one now xD
But are you sure it doesn’t open? Maybe you need to hold a crystal to it at the right time of day so that sunlight gets focused by it and opens a secret portal to another better timeline!
48" (122cm) diameter so anything is possible! :)
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Slide left to open, right to close. :) Except the round one.
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Bathroom as an example:
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I have both of those sliding styles in my house. Kitchen windows are all side sliding, and are as wide as all other vertical sliding windows in the house are tall.
Except the bathroom, that one is half as tall as the tall ones/half as wide as the wide ones, it slides vertically.
All vertical sliding windows have the opening at the bottom, all horizontal sliding windows have the opening on the right.
West coast, USA.
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I also have windows that slide left/right. Specifically, the right side slides left to open, right to close. Two are “landscape,” one is “portrait” shaped. Then I have three sliding-glass doors, which work exactly the same way except for the latch, threshold, and the fact that the screen also slides. It may be relevant that it never snows here.
That’s pretty!
Kind of why we bought the house. :)
Mine all slide, they don’t swing. Either up/down or left/right
Up, or down.
They don’t open “out”. The slide open in a frame, with a screen on the outside to keep bugs out. Mine slide left/right.
Slide up down, flip a latch and it tilts, flip a different latch and it swings open.
All of mine are casement windows. The taller ones hinge open to one side and the shorter ones hinge open from the bottom.
Mine are unusual, in America anyway. The bottom slides up, typical. You can also tilt the bottom inwards from the top. Being that this is a Habitat home, the windows are also energy efficient. They’re cheap with doorknobs and faucets, but they go well over code on insulation and structure.
Mine are the same but the top tilts inwards from the bottom
I thought this question was going to be about whether they opened outside or inside.
New windows! Just over a year old, they all open outwards with the hinges on the wall sides.
I looked at getting tilt and turn ones, but I could get triple glazed normal ones for like half the price.
Front of the house inwards, back of the house outwards except for upstairs, there it’s always inwards. Same with doors. Back door outwards, front door inwards.
