In the us the most common windows are double hung vertically sliding windows that tilt inwards for cleaning.

@@kellymoses8566 I’m a custom luxury home builder in the USA, and I can assure you that the windows we traditionally use, even the highest rated, are utter trash compared to European windows depicted in this video. The difference is so vast that I’m currently in Europe seeking a maker that will distribute directly to me in USA for use on my future builds. Yes, they’re THAT good, an absolute game changer.

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lucky you

In Mexico too every house has these windows

Actually some manufacturers of locking mechanisms and window handles advertise this 45 degree position as microventilation. When I exchanged old handle for newer one with lock I noticed there are notches each 45 degrees. However I can lock handle only in ventilation mode (handle upwards) or closed mode (hande downwards). Also microventilation offers quite small airflow in order to remove excessive humidity and if temperature falls below freezing point, humidity can condensate in window frame and this can damage locking mechanism by corrosion or freezing.

I’m from Czechia and everyone uses it like this. Also it is an official function presented by the windows manufacturers.

you can't go wrong with tilt and turn!

@@liongatewindowcorp Maybe the frame got twisted because the wall is too thin and soft. Europeans often presume that their heavy-framed windows and doors are unsuitable for American cardboard homes. I once installed a new door into the shed that a friend of mine had under his 2nd floor balcony. That is his father had closed the space under that balcony on its three (open) sides to have a shed for gardening stuff and bikes many years ago. As the strong balcony is its roof he did not need to use heavy timbers and the entire thing was very flimsy. Now the door had started to rot and we got a new door plus frame from the home improvement store that would fit in. It did, but the plastic frame "wobbled" as soon as we opened the door together with the entire wall and the door did not close correctly anymore unless we reinforced the timbers it was bolted to. After that everything was fine.

Typical American windows open either horizontally or vertically, slide them left/right or up/down. You can see windows similar to this though, mostly I’ve seen them in schools.

From the ones I've seen in Europe, they're not fixed. There's a latch where the two panes touch that you can access when you open the one with the handle. Move the latch and the pane without the handle swings like a door (the final movement shown in this video).

Yep, like Wineblood says, they are operated either with a latch or they will both have a handle. It's really uncommon to have a fixed one.

read the instruction manual first and foremost, and you forego things like that :)

Me too 😂

No, I came across that as some sort of fun-fact via a detour. I wanted to see how Americans experience life in Germany. There are many military families who live "off-base", there are bankers, scientists, craftsmen and -women, ex-soldiers whofor some reason spent their lives here, and so on. And almost EVERYONE of those who have a channel here on YT and who give their followers and viewers a tour of their house come forward with the topic "Fenster auf kipp", the colloquial expression for "window tilted". If someone should ever write a book about those Americans in Germany that expression would be the perfect title.

Canadian too. They suck

It's some kind of PVC. They are extremly durable (+20 years at least - probably even longer)

@@nicostreeck8394 i have over 25+

It’s called Google lol

What do you call this Windows in Germany? I'm planning on building a house with this kind of windows but I don't know the name in German or English, so it's hard to google it

@@christrent4289 you can't google something you don't know the name of....

@@DasboardTVDE Tilt/Turn windows or Schuco Windows

@@chickenfling thanks my dude

They're usually fixed at the outside. They have a motor and you control them with a remote control. Plenty of European houses have curtains in staid of blinds too.

LOL. It's not supposed to do that! You should check the safety on the side of the window if it has one. It's also really important if you don't have a safety (ours always do) to make sure the window is fully shut before trying to open it. Some of the older style tilt and turn don't have this safety mechanism to prevent this from happening.

That is exactly my problem.. with a huge picture window 😫

Same prob

@@rabiaali2961 - Close it and move the handle to the desired position.

Google, bing, duckduckgo "European tilting windows"

Move to germany xd

How so? IKEA has blinds and IKEA is European. We have blinds in Every European home

They are not a disaster you’ve just gotta hang those blinds far enough from the handle so it won’t get stuck on the handle.

The windows tilt inwards, so fix the blinds to the outside. Weatherproof rolling blinds are a good precaution against burglars as well.

I think it's safe to say you can put blinds on the door up above.. as in regards to the handle, you can cut maybe three blinds off at the end where the handle is, and It's fine. But If you don't do that, then they will look mighty shitty if you've done it a while.

First of all, tilt and turn windows were invented in Germany, not Poland. Secondly, German technology is known for being first class, while Polish technology is known for...I actually have never even heard someone mention Polish technology. If something is made in Poland you rather keep it a secret. XD

@@mimamo I, as a German, regard Polish quality very highly. "Made in Germany" mostly lives off of it's past fame. Germany treated people of the trades like dirt for a good 30+ years now.

@@mimamo idk where you live but "German technology" isnt that great as you think, also about windows, ye the tilt was invented in Germany but most of the factories that build them are located in Poland, basically pretty much every house stuff is made in Poland.

Only Europe have it for now

These windows are increasingly common in Europe.

You’re fake news! Lol