Coming from someone that builds them. At least where I live the mechanism is proprietary so it may not exist for every extrusion profile. Plus for big enough doors/windows the hinges to bear the load either don’t exist or get expensive quick.
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BlackLaZoR@fedia.io 2 weeks ago
In Poland these are common too. I fail to understand why someone would not install these windows in the first place
brokenlcd@feddit.it 2 weeks ago
Damage@feddit.it 2 weeks ago
I’ve got an 80cm door with double pane glass (of course) and metal-pvc construction that does this. It’s pretty heavy, it’d have to be a huge window to be heavier than that.
brokenlcd@feddit.it 2 weeks ago
PVC tends to be lighter than the thermal isolated aluminum we usually use. At least the stuff we have over here. (I work with steel and aluminum though. Never dealt extensively with PVC since it requires specific equipment).
Usually the problematic ones are the long “strip windows” (80cmx3 to 4 m) that some places use especially with argon filled glass panes (thick, layered double panes. With argon filling for emissivity. It may be what you have as well). But for them the style in the picture is usually set aside for a vasistas style closure. Which has an extra support for the panel. Paired with a pull string opening mechanism. I don’t know what’s the genetic name.
Damage@feddit.it 2 weeks ago
80x400cm horizontal? Those only open via vasistas, you can’t swing around a 4m window lol. I’ve seen those mostly paired with electrical actuators.
Mine are aluminum frame, steel reinforcements, PVC is only the external layer:
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hOrni@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
That was my thought when I was living in Denmark. Why would You have windows that open horizontally to the outside in a country where it rains almost every day, when You can have these.
Damage@feddit.it 2 weeks ago
Windows that open to the outside? That’s bizarre. The ones I’m used to open horizontally but towards the inside.
Ghoelian@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 weeks ago
My current flat only has windows that open horizontally outwards. Even the windows on the gallery side open outwards, so I can’t open them all the way without preventing my neighbours from passing. It also rains inside constantly.
Damage@feddit.it 2 weeks ago
That sounds quite annoying
idunnololz@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Bugs. Lots and lots of bugs.
moody@lemmings.world 2 weeks ago
Nothing prevents one from installing a screen on those windows.
idunnololz@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
I guess. Over here its more common to have the screen on the interrior to make it easier to clean.
Jesus_666@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
I have screens on my 3rd floor windows. Mine are attached to the window frame with little velcro strips but I think there’s other systems as well.
Ephera@lemmy.ml 2 weeks ago
You can still have the screen on the inside with these tiltable windows…
ThirdConsul@lemmy.ml 2 weeks ago
Just get a detachable screen? We had them at my family home?
idunnololz@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Did some quick research. It seems pretty difficult to install screens on these for some reason. So that’s probably why these are not common where I live.
Noja@sopuli.xyz 2 weeks ago
Weird research you did there, we have screens, even different types and they take 5 min to install. Hardest part is cutting it to size.
toynbee@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
I thought these were doors. Them being windows makes a lot more sense.
Sarctoth@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Because my house already has windows
Eheran@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
We have these windows, they are 35 years old and were most certainly not the first of this kind.
unexposedhazard@discuss.tchncs.de 2 weeks ago
Yeah these windows already existed when wooden frames without seals and single panes were the standard. My grandmas house has them so basically at least for 50-60 years. There is no excuse not to have these windows other than cost savings. (Or non availablity or preference i guess…)
notarobot@lemmy.zip 2 weeks ago
Bro. You should try linux.