This. I have these windows in one room in the US because I installed them myself. IDK if they are significantly cheaper in Germany, but for the price to have one professionally installed in the US I could have actually replaced the entire wall with floor to ceiling windows.
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Lizardom@lemmy.world 1 day ago
I lived in Germany for several years and moved to the U.S. and purchased a “fixer-upper” home. On the docket for replacement were the windows. To make a long story short, the cost of replacing every window on the house with a normal American window was within ~$1k of the price of a single “German” window. The cost to replace all of the windows with the German style was nearly the total price of the home itself.
So yeah, I would love to have those windows, but they’re not made or at least readily available in US markets.
socsa@piefed.social 1 day ago
azertyfun@sh.itjust.works 1 day ago
Just checked a local factory, 50x50cm is 100 € for a regular window and 200 € to open both ways (entry level PVC, not including installation).
All in all it’s not unheard of for bigger jobs to be south of 1000 €/window for professional installation, though you can get them for half that if you know the right contractors.
volvoxvsmarla@sopuli.xyz 1 day ago
Now I wonder how much an American window costs over here
some_kind_of_guy@lemmy.world 20 hours ago
Your dignity
Honytawk@feddit.nl 14 hours ago
Those are just regular windows
DarrinBrunner@lemmy.world 1 day ago
You can do the same with American windows–spend the cost of an entire house replacing your windows.
Andersen and Pella windows.
DSTGU@sopuli.xyz 1 day ago
Economy of scale magic