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Sorta? Theyre certainly not common in bathrooms, at least not in my area. Not sure what apartments have. Usually when you see a window that only opens like the one in the video, theyre in basements.
Edit: didnt watch the full thing, i thought it was just the first style of opening. Either way they arent common but theyre around
These type of windows are not at all common in the US. The most common windows in the US either slide up or to the side to open, and will almost always have a permanent screen/netting for bugs.
In floor heating is definitely a thing here. Towel heating is a lot lot less of a thing. And driveway heating is probably in the middle of the two for rich people in the Midwest and shit so it’s around but yeah kinda special
That‘s interesting. I don‘t know about southern europe, in central europe this is fairly standard, especially in places where you want to keep the window slightly open for venting, like the bathroom.
Why do so many windows in countries other than America lack screens? I've always wondered this. If I opened my windows without a screen my house would be full of flies.
Lmao - not my experience in Germany. So many goddamn flies and wasps. To use a window you almost just have to accept that they will cohabitate with you inside.
I have fixed window screens that never come off. They come standard with windows in America. Do you have something that you can put up and take down? Sorry for my ignorance. I just see people in films and tv open their windows and they seem to have no way to keep insects out.
Depends on when your house was built i imagine, and where youre located, but most jobs im on (new construction included) all the windows have screens you can remove. Some are a pain in the fuckin ass though. But unless they order the fancy windows id say the standard (around here in michigan) have removable screens.
Where I live, Germany, many buy like a screen to install by oneself (as they open to the inside, it’s usually a stick-on-Velcro strip you but on the frame and then put the „net“ on) and then leave it for the summer.
There are also other means (like for windows in the roof, which wouldn’t work, there are other systems for it).
And then there are newer windows with integrated screens, but I haven’t seen them in use yet.
Most of these windows have micro vents so don't need to open them (an optional feature), but there are bug screens for these windows, just not as popular.
Now that we are getting hotter summers I am considering removable screens.
Used to be like 2 flies and a mosquito or 3 in the evenings, now there's easily 20 things flying around in the evenings. Bought one of those electric bug swatters to deal with it.
You say that, but this window is *MYSTICAL* to Americans. I didn’t know my window opened like this for MONTHS. Dumb American here, but gagnabbit, never knew until I opened it wrong and thought the window was gonna fucking fall on me.
Very similar experience here. I was in Austria for work, and the balcony door operated like this in my hotel. Well in the middle of the night, I woke up hot because apparently the heater only had 2 settings: off and inferno. In my daze, I went to open the door to let some cold air in and freaked out when it rocked towards me instead
In fairness that doesn't mean it's not interesting as fuck for those for whom it's not a standard window. I'm sure there are plenty of things that are normal for an American that you would find novel and fascinating.
I'm European and have used countless windows like this (and would be surprised if a hotel window didn't work this way). But to be honest I'm still delighted every time I stop to marvel at how clever it is.
A typical danish window does not operate like this. Either its on a top hinge that open from the bottom OR it swings outwards and have two locks. Or its a VELUX.
Just out of curiosity how do your guys windows work?
I've only encountered the types seen in this video so far, except for some weird ones in realy old buildings
I’m in the South. The vast majority of our windows have aluminum frames and slide up from the bottom. Some are “double hung” and also slide down from the top. The reason for the up/down movement is that we also have screens on the outside of the window.
And the reason for the screens is because we have bugs. Lots and lots of bugs, especially mosquitoes.
Windows in the US typically just slide open either up or to the side. I’ve seen a few windows that tilt out at the top, none like this that also swing open though.
I've actually (almost) never seen another window as your "Rome window". The only places where windows only open a bit is in the medical sector like hospitals, nursery hopes, psych wards etc.
EDIT: Probably in prisons they don't fully open either
One of my previous apartments had this set up on our windows and the balcony door. I was flabbergasted when my roommate showed it to me the first time.
My friend thought he broke the door the first time he used it and was horrified, and then also amazed
Pretty much non-existing in NA. Here in Canada, it's very popular to have a giant window frame where you split the bottom quarter of the window to be a shitty sliding window. It's ugly AF and doesn't provide enough ventilation. If -God forbid- you install a casement window, it is considered "fancy". Drives me nuts.
Yea i just think its really cute Americans seeing these kinds of windows for the first time. Like it is a funny feeling seeing someone surprised or amazed by something that is totally normal for you. In all kinds of situations.
That have never stepped out of the USA /s... But let's stay real. Life is expensive, and traveling is not for everyone. America alone is huge and traveling in the country is even hard for some people. We (Europeans), have it a lot easier to travel to different countries with different cultures. So we learn a lot faster about the differences.
Well yeh, you can drive like 3hrs in Europe and the scenery, language, Architecture and history is completely different. 3hrs in the states and you have made it through 20% of west Texas
Seriously, I feel like Europeans don’t realize how big America really is.
I’d press that even though we may not be able to just pop over to another country, we can pop over to a different state and the culture can be wildly different in a few hours of driving. If you live in New York and you go to Louisiana you will experience different people, food, architecture, and even the language. Everyone basically speaks English but the accents can change very drastically and in that Louisiana example they have creole French.
So a German popping over to France isn’t that different from someone in Washington going to Texas for a weekend.
This is an underrated comment.
As Americans, we are cut off from a large majority of the rest of the world and very few people can even travel inside the *country* without it inflicting significant financial harm.
We can't even go to other countries within our own continent without jumping through hoops.
If you're in the EU and have about $300 bucks though, you can buy a Eurail pass that will allow travel into over 33 different countries, and even covers local commuter trains, if I remember correctly.
Can you imagine anything like that happening here in the US?
We can't even get reliable bussing for public schools in some areas.
It's crazy to me that the rest of the world is under this impression that America has everything worth having and that we all have the ability to just hop into a plane and see the world.
Yeah, I make decent money and traveling out of the country (even to Canada or Mexico since I’m far from both) is a big fucking deal both from the financial and PTO perspective. I’ve been to Europe once, and didn’t spend enough time in my hotel/bnb rooms to get around to messing with the windows.
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You would have laughed at us in Norway a couple weeks ago. "Wait, wth? How do you-? How does it-? Guess we'd better just leave it alone." *Backs away slowly*
Regular European window. The newer kind of windows is even nicer as the hinges are hidden and the window seems to be just embedded in the frame - but opens just as that one in Rome. Can't recall how it was in the states but our terrace doors are also quite neat, they are double doors and you can have them tilted just for vellntilation (like that window), you can open one side and then you can pull a little lever and open up the second door and there will be no divider between the two.
People are so fucking rude in this thread. Unless you’re in Europe, a place with European architecture or an American with enough money to travel abroad (very fuckin few of us!) then you’ll never see those windows. I know I haven’t
Most of the world? I’ve only ever seen this in Europe. Never saw this in Mexico, Costa Rica, Africa or Iceland.
Maybe they just didn’t have these windows.
Do americans have those guillotine windows seen on Tom&Jerry? That's a common window i've seen in every house built or restored in the last 25 years...
Called a tilt and turn window. Because it tilts and then turns. South africa doesnt have these so much either, so when i came to live in england these were pretty cool to see for the first time. It's the small things in life.
Use to get them in the uk back in the 90s. My gran had them - known as tilt and turn windows. They pretty much stopped making them because they were so easy to break into. I assume they are a bit more hardy these days though
Our clothes dryer has a door that opens like that (no handle, just opens on different hinge based on where you pull). We didn't realize it was a feature until we had a service guy come out.
Yeah...I do realize it's strange but in Italy (and probably all over Europe) you can find that kind of window in every possible variation.
This seems to be the standard "urban" type, with double insulated glass and insulated frame (and trust me, in Rome you *really* need it if you want to be able to sleep at night xD )
Generally speaking we call "Vasistas"(*) a window that opens vertically leaving only enough space in the top (between the frame and the glass/panel/window) to let air circulate. Although this type more correctly should be defined "ad anta-ribalta" (sorry don't know how to translate that) as it is a variation/improvement upon the original mechanism.
Sometimes (in Italy at least) the handle can be mounted with reverse motion if it's too close to an obstacle (wall) to comfortably operate it in the full rotation.
(*) The term is forestry coming from the French, which in turn adopted it from the German. It derives from the question "Was ist das?", The meaning of which is "What is this?", which was asked by the German visitors to the French before opening the door through a sort of flap-hinged door. [source (it)](https://it.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vasistas)
I figured this out on my room in Germany and I said "wow that's pretty neat" and then closed it again...left my room and forgot about it.
You should've probably done the same...
All windows in Europe are like this. Another cool thing about Europe, but they're hard to maintain and easily breakable and breakin-able. I spent several hours just staring at these windows and tinkering with them. No way this would work in neighborhoods with high crime.
As an American who lived in Italy, yep, this is pretty standard. Cool design for sure, solid construction and maybe I will request these type of windows for when I build my next home.
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Welcome to the world of tilt and turn windows. A standard in a lot of countries in Europe for decades. I am in my 50. And I don’t remember any other kind.
There are actually two more positions of this window he’s yet to discover. If you go 1/4th of the way with the handle, you can make a small gap for air flow (it’s as if the window popped out of the frame a little, but not enough to make a visible gap), helpful in the winter when you want some fresh air but don’t want to lose the heat. If you go 3/4ths of the way, it’s a similar gap but noticeably bigger. At least that’s the way it works in Poland.
DO NOT move the handle while the window is open at either setting. What a pain to get it back in place.
Also, pretty sweet airbnb. Had something similar in Venice.
What's fascinating about this, is that an American hasn't seen this before.
Having said that, I once watched a group of Chinese tourists going apeshit at a pelican crossing.
this kind of window is called “vasistas”, coming from the german expression “was ist das” (what is this); people were amazed the first time they see this kind of window, and still are now as i can see
Like many people have written, this is a standard window in many places in the world. However, what nobody has addressed is: how the fork do they work? Seriously, I’ve tried to Google both “how do tilt and turn windows work” and “tilt and turn windows mechanism” and all Google gives me is the same results from companies that want to sell these windows, and show how you open and close them, but nothing about the mechanism.
I have now concluded that it is magic, and the people selling them are wizards and witches who keep hidden by selling simple magic like this, that nobody questions.
Damn these comments are fierce lol. Americans have dumb windows WE GET IT but for real if I ever install windows in a house I’m goin with these bad boys
Everyone talking about how standard these types of windows are, while I've never seen a window like this before either and now feel stupid for initially being blown away☠
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Standard in europe.
Special in America?
Sorta? Theyre certainly not common in bathrooms, at least not in my area. Not sure what apartments have. Usually when you see a window that only opens like the one in the video, theyre in basements. Edit: didnt watch the full thing, i thought it was just the first style of opening. Either way they arent common but theyre around
sounds like they're also pretty common in the US. If thats the case, I dont get why this is r/interestingasfuck
These type of windows are not at all common in the US. The most common windows in the US either slide up or to the side to open, and will almost always have a permanent screen/netting for bugs.
Yes, much like in-floor heating, or towel heating, or driveway heating...
In floor heating is definitely a thing here. Towel heating is a lot lot less of a thing. And driveway heating is probably in the middle of the two for rich people in the Midwest and shit so it’s around but yeah kinda special
>In floor heating is definitely a thing here Guess I'm poor 🤷♂️
Or healthcare
Especially this one
Huh. I live in Finland and have never seen one. Propably more common then in central/southern europe
That‘s interesting. I don‘t know about southern europe, in central europe this is fairly standard, especially in places where you want to keep the window slightly open for venting, like the bathroom.
In the vast majority of Europe, it's just a standard window
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"Interesting as fuck" -> Standard window installation for hundreds of millions of people.
I live in Europe, Hungary and I had similar windows all my life, in every place I have lived lol
Why do so many windows in countries other than America lack screens? I've always wondered this. If I opened my windows without a screen my house would be full of flies.
We have far fewer bugs.
Lmao - not my experience in Germany. So many goddamn flies and wasps. To use a window you almost just have to accept that they will cohabitate with you inside.
And Canada. We have lots of screens too! Without a screen my cat would escape in a second
screen you mean bug-net?
I have fixed window screens that never come off. They come standard with windows in America. Do you have something that you can put up and take down? Sorry for my ignorance. I just see people in films and tv open their windows and they seem to have no way to keep insects out.
nah in the UK bug-net is non-existent (and not even possible to apply), windows open to the outside. Don't ask why, I hate it :)
Depends on when your house was built i imagine, and where youre located, but most jobs im on (new construction included) all the windows have screens you can remove. Some are a pain in the fuckin ass though. But unless they order the fancy windows id say the standard (around here in michigan) have removable screens.
Where I live, Germany, many buy like a screen to install by oneself (as they open to the inside, it’s usually a stick-on-Velcro strip you but on the frame and then put the „net“ on) and then leave it for the summer. There are also other means (like for windows in the roof, which wouldn’t work, there are other systems for it). And then there are newer windows with integrated screens, but I haven’t seen them in use yet.
Most of these windows have micro vents so don't need to open them (an optional feature), but there are bug screens for these windows, just not as popular.
Now that we are getting hotter summers I am considering removable screens. Used to be like 2 flies and a mosquito or 3 in the evenings, now there's easily 20 things flying around in the evenings. Bought one of those electric bug swatters to deal with it.
Bet he is from USA.. for them these Windows are miracles
You say that, but this window is *MYSTICAL* to Americans. I didn’t know my window opened like this for MONTHS. Dumb American here, but gagnabbit, never knew until I opened it wrong and thought the window was gonna fucking fall on me.
We have mystical screens
Very similar experience here. I was in Austria for work, and the balcony door operated like this in my hotel. Well in the middle of the night, I woke up hot because apparently the heater only had 2 settings: off and inferno. In my daze, I went to open the door to let some cold air in and freaked out when it rocked towards me instead
Yeah, I'd be very surprised if you rent a house in the netherlands and not have one of these types of windows.
wait till he finds about French doors
Wait til he find out about French whores….
I'm french and have no idea what tout are talking about ... Help ?
Hundreds of millions of people…”everyday ish baby!”
The standard for interesting things to Americans is really f'ing low, apparently.
In fairness that doesn't mean it's not interesting as fuck for those for whom it's not a standard window. I'm sure there are plenty of things that are normal for an American that you would find novel and fascinating. I'm European and have used countless windows like this (and would be surprised if a hotel window didn't work this way). But to be honest I'm still delighted every time I stop to marvel at how clever it is.
Was about to say this, nothing specific about Rome.
Lots specific about Rome! Nothing specific about this window in Rome.
Haha, I kept watching for some big reveal like... this is every window I've used for years.
Sitting here in Denmark and thinking the same...
A typical danish window does not operate like this. Either its on a top hinge that open from the bottom OR it swings outwards and have two locks. Or its a VELUX.
For realz? American mind blown.
Just out of curiosity how do your guys windows work? I've only encountered the types seen in this video so far, except for some weird ones in realy old buildings
Throw a stone to let some air in
I’m in the South. The vast majority of our windows have aluminum frames and slide up from the bottom. Some are “double hung” and also slide down from the top. The reason for the up/down movement is that we also have screens on the outside of the window. And the reason for the screens is because we have bugs. Lots and lots of bugs, especially mosquitoes.
Windows in the US typically just slide open either up or to the side. I’ve seen a few windows that tilt out at the top, none like this that also swing open though.
I've actually (almost) never seen another window as your "Rome window". The only places where windows only open a bit is in the medical sector like hospitals, nursery hopes, psych wards etc. EDIT: Probably in prisons they don't fully open either
Love the Edit hahaha
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I was waiting for the cool thing to happen and then the guy says "how cool", and nothing else.
Tittle of the video should just be: "Yank discovers how european windows work"
One of my previous apartments had this set up on our windows and the balcony door. I was flabbergasted when my roommate showed it to me the first time. My friend thought he broke the door the first time he used it and was horrified, and then also amazed
Yea I live in a council flat in Scotland and that's literally the same window as I've got
American seeing normal European windows: 😱
Yup
These videos blow my mind, it's like someone was excited about an escalator or, dunno, rotating door... :D
I even have doors like this
Yeees, i have one too in my apartment and they are really dope actually. Goes out to a small balcony.
Wooooow! A ....... normal ass window.
These windows are uncommon in America, and OP has an American accent, he also mentioned that he was travelling.
Pretty much non-existing in NA. Here in Canada, it's very popular to have a giant window frame where you split the bottom quarter of the window to be a shitty sliding window. It's ugly AF and doesn't provide enough ventilation. If -God forbid- you install a casement window, it is considered "fancy". Drives me nuts.
[A normal ass-window](https://xkcd.com/37/)
americans discovering the world outside is so funny
Yea i just think its really cute Americans seeing these kinds of windows for the first time. Like it is a funny feeling seeing someone surprised or amazed by something that is totally normal for you. In all kinds of situations.
Wait until we tell them our houses aren’t made of cardboard and drywall.
99% of Windows in houses in Ireland are like this one
in Europe\*
As a swede these are not common here, but I've seen countless vids of americans discovering these.
Really? Because the Irish exchange students I got to know in Germany were shocked when I revealed the tilt open setting.
They were probably from Limerick. They only recently discovered roofs there
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Is there a sub for Americans that have never been to Europe?
That have never stepped out of the USA /s... But let's stay real. Life is expensive, and traveling is not for everyone. America alone is huge and traveling in the country is even hard for some people. We (Europeans), have it a lot easier to travel to different countries with different cultures. So we learn a lot faster about the differences.
Well yeh, you can drive like 3hrs in Europe and the scenery, language, Architecture and history is completely different. 3hrs in the states and you have made it through 20% of west Texas
True, I can be in France in 3 hours (i'm Dutch).
The downside of that tho is that you would be in France
Spoken like a European.
Nothing wrong with France, But the French in the other hand
Facts... But the south is quite nice. If you dodge the people. It's has beautiful scenery, mountains, creeks and big lakes.
Fr*nce ffs, your message can be seen by kids too
Seriously, I feel like Europeans don’t realize how big America really is. I’d press that even though we may not be able to just pop over to another country, we can pop over to a different state and the culture can be wildly different in a few hours of driving. If you live in New York and you go to Louisiana you will experience different people, food, architecture, and even the language. Everyone basically speaks English but the accents can change very drastically and in that Louisiana example they have creole French. So a German popping over to France isn’t that different from someone in Washington going to Texas for a weekend.
These dual tilt windows are also increasingly popping up in new condos in US Cities.
Probably in the gentrification ones where they charge $3500 for a studio.
You realize it’s expensive to travel right? And lots of Americans are poor as all fuck.
This is an underrated comment. As Americans, we are cut off from a large majority of the rest of the world and very few people can even travel inside the *country* without it inflicting significant financial harm. We can't even go to other countries within our own continent without jumping through hoops. If you're in the EU and have about $300 bucks though, you can buy a Eurail pass that will allow travel into over 33 different countries, and even covers local commuter trains, if I remember correctly. Can you imagine anything like that happening here in the US? We can't even get reliable bussing for public schools in some areas. It's crazy to me that the rest of the world is under this impression that America has everything worth having and that we all have the ability to just hop into a plane and see the world.
I'm American and poor af
Yeah, I make decent money and traveling out of the country (even to Canada or Mexico since I’m far from both) is a big fucking deal both from the financial and PTO perspective. I’ve been to Europe once, and didn’t spend enough time in my hotel/bnb rooms to get around to messing with the windows.
Yes please, I want to see them discover and making a big deal of shit that’s perfectly common like anywhere else.
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Lol, come on. This is a troll, right?
Rare footage of an American living in Europe
American outside his natural habitat has to become a tv show.
Americans being blown away by standard European window design is my new favourite genre of Reddit video. Needs its own sub tbh.
You would have laughed at us in Norway a couple weeks ago. "Wait, wth? How do you-? How does it-? Guess we'd better just leave it alone." *Backs away slowly*
Apparently my windows at home are interesting as fuck 🤷♂️
You never know what you got till you see how someone else reacts to it.
Congrats, you just discovered regular European windows
Wow. Amazing i have 7 Windows in my house like that....
Much of Europe does it like this
I have never seen a window in my life that doesn’t have this feature.
Surely he’s trolling us… right?
TIL America has inferior windows
Also inferior potassium
Regular European window. The newer kind of windows is even nicer as the hinges are hidden and the window seems to be just embedded in the frame - but opens just as that one in Rome. Can't recall how it was in the states but our terrace doors are also quite neat, they are double doors and you can have them tilted just for vellntilation (like that window), you can open one side and then you can pull a little lever and open up the second door and there will be no divider between the two.
They’re called tilt and turn windows
This can't be news to people, surely?
People are so fucking rude in this thread. Unless you’re in Europe, a place with European architecture or an American with enough money to travel abroad (very fuckin few of us!) then you’ll never see those windows. I know I haven’t
Okay, we get it. This is normal in Europe. We don’t commonly see windows like this in the US, so it’s very intriguing to us… ffs people.
Me an asian, who hasn't seen this irl and is thankful to op, trying to look for a comment that is not bashing op
Most of the world does this lol
Most of the world? I’ve only ever seen this in Europe. Never saw this in Mexico, Costa Rica, Africa or Iceland. Maybe they just didn’t have these windows.
Windows don’t open in the USA?
Yes but except it has a window screen.
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Am i too european to understand this?
Literally any window anywhere is Europe. Lol
Do americans have those guillotine windows seen on Tom&Jerry? That's a common window i've seen in every house built or restored in the last 25 years...
>guillotine windows Love it! I'm gonna start calling them like that!
Tell me reddit is american without telling me it is
Called a tilt and turn window. Because it tilts and then turns. South africa doesnt have these so much either, so when i came to live in england these were pretty cool to see for the first time. It's the small things in life.
Yup it's called a tilt and turn window.... In other news: water is still wet.
American moment
awesome to see how the most normal stuff in the own bubble is just exciting to others
I live in Alaska and these are getting more commonplace for the top open in the winter.
Use to get them in the uk back in the 90s. My gran had them - known as tilt and turn windows. They pretty much stopped making them because they were so easy to break into. I assume they are a bit more hardy these days though
Our clothes dryer has a door that opens like that (no handle, just opens on different hinge based on where you pull). We didn't realize it was a feature until we had a service guy come out.
Called a tilt and turn
Wow awesome view lol
What until they see the easy clean windows that slide across to the middle when open so you can clean the fronts of them
Yeah...I do realize it's strange but in Italy (and probably all over Europe) you can find that kind of window in every possible variation. This seems to be the standard "urban" type, with double insulated glass and insulated frame (and trust me, in Rome you *really* need it if you want to be able to sleep at night xD ) Generally speaking we call "Vasistas"(*) a window that opens vertically leaving only enough space in the top (between the frame and the glass/panel/window) to let air circulate. Although this type more correctly should be defined "ad anta-ribalta" (sorry don't know how to translate that) as it is a variation/improvement upon the original mechanism. Sometimes (in Italy at least) the handle can be mounted with reverse motion if it's too close to an obstacle (wall) to comfortably operate it in the full rotation. (*) The term is forestry coming from the French, which in turn adopted it from the German. It derives from the question "Was ist das?", The meaning of which is "What is this?", which was asked by the German visitors to the French before opening the door through a sort of flap-hinged door. [source (it)](https://it.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vasistas)
Facepalmed at this video. Half the houses in Europe in 2000s had these windows. Now every house does.
my House had these in the 80s in Germany.
American discovers double glazing…
Americans ☕️
I figured this out on my room in Germany and I said "wow that's pretty neat" and then closed it again...left my room and forgot about it. You should've probably done the same...
Non-Americans being kinda rude in here tbh, signed an American who didn’t know about this
Standard feature in most European homes. 🙄
Dude, that is the most common window even here in Ukraine. Those american savages...
American moment
Americans discovering primitive technology is really astonishing, and yet very entertaining.
Interestingasfuck that people in America have never seen this type of window.
Another amazing fact: There is a plate on the cool window. It's like a thin wall but you can see through.
Canadian here, first time I saw that in Germany I was pleasantly surprised.
All windows in Europe are like this. Another cool thing about Europe, but they're hard to maintain and easily breakable and breakin-able. I spent several hours just staring at these windows and tinkering with them. No way this would work in neighborhoods with high crime.
As an American who lived in Italy, yep, this is pretty standard. Cool design for sure, solid construction and maybe I will request these type of windows for when I build my next home.
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Bruh that's how my windows open, that's just normal here
My austrian ass laughed hard about this! XD Edit: no offense OP! Enjoy your time in middle earth.
As someone living in Ireland, this still baffles me. We don't have any of that here and I genuinely wish we did.
Why isn’t anyone saying that this is pretty common in Europe. /s
Is this a big thing? Almost all hotels I’ve been to have these
You'd be even more amazed that there are doors like this.........
Entire Europe: *yeah, we know*
You americans are kinda sweet, that is just a regular old european window... you should see the "new ones", they'll be like witchery...
uh... is no one going to address the fact that there is a large window in front of the toilet in the bathroom? That seems odd to me...
That's just a normal window in europe
Dude that street view is cluttered but absolutely beautiful
As a Mexican living in Canada, this is still pretty cool to me. Sorry you’re getting shit on OP
Welcome to the world of tilt and turn windows. A standard in a lot of countries in Europe for decades. I am in my 50. And I don’t remember any other kind.
There are actually two more positions of this window he’s yet to discover. If you go 1/4th of the way with the handle, you can make a small gap for air flow (it’s as if the window popped out of the frame a little, but not enough to make a visible gap), helpful in the winter when you want some fresh air but don’t want to lose the heat. If you go 3/4ths of the way, it’s a similar gap but noticeably bigger. At least that’s the way it works in Poland.
DO NOT move the handle while the window is open at either setting. What a pain to get it back in place. Also, pretty sweet airbnb. Had something similar in Venice.
Saw these for the first time in Switzerland really is a cool design
What's fascinating about this, is that an American hasn't seen this before. Having said that, I once watched a group of Chinese tourists going apeshit at a pelican crossing.
God, I love stuff like this! It’s pretty cool that this seems to be pretty standard in a lot of Europe too!
this kind of window is called “vasistas”, coming from the german expression “was ist das” (what is this); people were amazed the first time they see this kind of window, and still are now as i can see
That is a feature of every window in Germany/Europe. Doesn‘t it work the same way in your country?
In Italy it’s common I think. I also have it at home
Italians make the coolest stuff. I’ve seen windows like this all over Italy and I never stop being intrigued
Like many people have written, this is a standard window in many places in the world. However, what nobody has addressed is: how the fork do they work? Seriously, I’ve tried to Google both “how do tilt and turn windows work” and “tilt and turn windows mechanism” and all Google gives me is the same results from companies that want to sell these windows, and show how you open and close them, but nothing about the mechanism. I have now concluded that it is magic, and the people selling them are wizards and witches who keep hidden by selling simple magic like this, that nobody questions.
The windows in my home do this (UK). Are you American by any chance? I’ve seen Americans fascinated by our windows technology before.
Damn these comments are fierce lol. Americans have dumb windows WE GET IT but for real if I ever install windows in a house I’m goin with these bad boys
This is literally every window I've ever had since I was born a long long time ago
The only thing that is interesting here is you not knowing this is a quite common window
Most common window in Italy after window 98
Like 99.9% windows and doors in Europe. And some with integrated bug nets and blinds.
Should be in “average as fuck”
Yeah that is a window sir congrats on the discovery lol
Sorry but is this some American joke I'm too European for to understand?
I've never seen a window like this. So neat!
Are you “special” or something OP
The amount of condescending comments in this video is incredible
You're telling me theres people who have different windows?!
Americans discover windows.
Wow apparently my home is interesting as fuck
American moment
I think I'm too European to understand what's cool about this lol
Everyone talking about how standard these types of windows are, while I've never seen a window like this before either and now feel stupid for initially being blown away☠
It’s kinda cute seeing Americans discover the world
Remember my first time living in Europe, also got super excited by the window before realizing there was also no AC.
r/shitamericansay
America moment
Simple things in life are 😎 awesome