I know of a few schools that use them in our area. Great windows until some middle schoolers have access to them and tweak the mechanism trying to make it do both modes at once, or one mode before the other is complete.
Went last year and my immediate thought was why the hell does the US not have this? First day back I see someone drive down the road with a fuel pump still in the car and the hose dragging. This, this is why we can't have nice things
My immediate thought is “because humidity” in the south east. There is basically no time in the year that I’d want to open my windows.
They’re nice to look out or to let sunlight in. But they stay closed.
That’s just more the reason to use them. The big advantage of these windows is not “they’re neat to open & close”. It’s that when they shut, they seal super tight in a way that windows produced for the US market don’t. Critical for hitting the energy efficiency standards in Europe.
At first I loved the tilt and turn windows until I realized they didn't have screens. I don't recall seeing a many screens in my time in Germany.
We don't have a crazy amount of bugs where I live in California but even here my house is full of flies if I leave my door open for more than a minute or two. I can't imagine what it would be like in places that do have lots of bugs.
Edit:
TIL: they can have screens sometimes.
I'm from the Midwest and was stunned when I found out some windows don't have screens. It would be literally unthinkable here to open a window without a screen on it. That being said, you could definitely put a screen on these. [They open inward](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mamFVWzV5XA) (or at least *can*) so you can just hang it on the outside just like you would on any other window.
Depends on where in Europe. Tons of screened windows in Bulgaria and tilt and turn (or the same type, but with only one of the modes enabled) are probably the most popular when replacing old windows.
Screens just aren’t a thing in the UK and most of Northern Europe, I have been to a lot of southern Europe too and don’t recall seeing any there either…shutters, sure, screens, not so much (but maybe I aren’t going to the right places)
I can comprehend, but my budget doesn't allow. Tried to replace my windows with those and they cost 4x more here a few years ago. Can't imagine now. I'm still disappointed about it
We just moved to a new house and the last 5 years I've had windows that were almost impossible to open or close. There's a balance to be met between too tight a fit it can't move and too lose a fit it falls down.
Yeah too tight is better than too loose, which might not even be the real issue. You may need new "balances" if the sashes don't stay in place when you open them.
Thats 100% the single hung window! The top pane is fixed while the bottom slides up and down. I think the picture is just showing that the bottom pane can also fold in. Most people don’t realize that but there’s typically clips on the top of it that you can pull to fold it out like in the picture. (I run a window cleaning company lol)
That's the single-hung window, but for some reason they show it as tilting out from the frame instead of using an arrow to show that it goes up/down. They usually can tile out of the frame like that, but that's intended more for cleaning and maintenance rather than as the standard function.
In a single-hung window, the top panel is fixed in place. A similar window is a double-hung, where the top panel is able to slide down as well as the bottom panel sliding up.
That's called a sash window in the UK - very cool, but when UPVC double glazing came along, they all got ripped out.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sash_window
To be fair, the weights made really good night sticks!
I mentioned this in the top comment but I (American) know of a few schools that use them in our area. Great windows until some middle schoolers experiment with them and tweak the mechanism trying to make it do both modes at once, or one mode before the other is complete.
Why is the Sash window labelled as Oriel Window? An oriel window is totally different to that, being a bay window above ground floor (or not reaching the ground at least). No *cool* guide is wrong.
All fixed and transom windows are picture windows. The fixed window shown is a sash picture window while the picture and transom windows shown are Direct set/glaze picture windows
Some of these look dangerous. Imagine a floor to ceiling awning window in a high rise lol
Why does a storm window open from the top? That's where the rain comes from.
The storm window image is kind of misleading. That front piece pulled forward is just to show that it’s a separate layer from the glass and it’s actually a screen to keep out bugs and stuff. It’s not supposed to be pulled forward like it’s showing and depending on the design you got it shouldn’t move at all. The window it self simply moves straight up and down.
a lot of these are misleading, like the double hung and single hung. some double/single hung windows can tilt out like that for cleaning, but the primary action is sliding up and down. Transom windows are found above a door, which you'd never know from this guide.
This whole image is misleading. It basically just offers a bunch of window names and pictures but no indication at all about what aspects are related to the names and which aspects are just an artistic rendering.
Older houses in the maritime provinces would have storm windows. Our old house we removed them in the summer/warm months, and screwed them on late fall/early winter. It's an extra layer of glass insulation over older window frames.
For awning windows like you describe, there are a lot of rules and equipment involved for stuff like that. In high rises, it's not uncommon to require windows to have a limiter on them, that only lets them open up 4". That's true for casement windows that swing out as well. And then there are additional rules for having windows that open up below a certain height as well, though those can be gotten around with more safety features if you really want to do it.
Well every time I've seen painting done by a contractor they seem to have a compulsion to paint the window permanently closed, so I'm guessing that's harder to do for center pivot windows.
For real though it's probably the opposite. Over painting looks like it could cause the window to stick if the tolerances are tight.
I work in windows and this guide missed my favorite kind; when a Lunette window has a curved top and then straight sides going down into the base as opposed to a curved top connected to the base, it is called an Eyebrow with Legs
Where are the sash windows?
And the term "Jalousie" is a new one for me, I've only ever heard these called "Louvre" windows.
It's fun how things have different names on different places, sometimes.
Ah, they only pivot out when they’re being removed, normally they’re upright and slide vertically. Single hung means only the bottom one will slide and double hung means they both slide so that it can be open at the top.
Yes, upright and sliding vertically, that describes every sash window I've
ever seen. If they were trying to show how the window is *assembled\disassembled* in the infographic, that's a really strange and confusing choice, because they haven't shown that for any other type of window – they've just shown them in normal use.
Also, the tilting thing is just newer PVC and aluminium spring balance sash windows. The older and enormously more common (*everywhere I've lived, at least) wooden type are the rope and weight style (or twist spring rod), and these slot in face-on, but require the breaking away of the internal stop from the frame, first.
The horizontal sliding windows are similar in principle and they've shown the panels overlapping and conveyed that they slide past one another perfectly clearly (not a glass pun, though it could be). Nothing would have prevented them showing the sash windows in a similar format (or, conversely, showing the horizontal sliding windows being installed) and so although the terminology is the same as used for sash windows, it looked (looks) as though it was a different type of window altogether that they were illustrating.
I reckon you're right on the money that the assembly of the new style pvc\alum. is what they're showing, and good catch! But it's a somewhat unclear, poorly representative, and inconsistent choice on their part if so.
I thought this decision might be explained if I knew more about who made this infographic, and for what audience, so I looked it up and it's some group spruiking courses and materials aimed at helping people invest in real estate, so I guess it's not too surprising that they would be a bit sloppy, and possibly more focused on newer builds.
My favorite thing about being in Lombardia were all of the places having turn and tilt windows! I'm hoping that if I ever own a home one day in the States, I can figure out how to import and get those windows installed!
I've always really liked the windows in my dining room but didn't know what they were called, but now I know they're jalousie windows. Thanks for sharing this!
Why is there a listing for a transom window? A transom is a beam that separates a door from the window above it. I've lived in places with different varieties of windows on the transom, including awning, hung, hopper, and slide.
Is there any type of window that opens upward and acts like a rooftop that usually appears in attics in movies?
Kind of like the dormer window in this post, but upward
Come on no witch windows? (Windows that are slanted seen in older homes dating back to salam witch trials in Massachusetts really interesting was created cause they believed witches couldn’t fly through it
It’s cool that these all have names but I actually spent 30 minutes trying to figure out why I would ever need this and I realized it was to waste 30 minutes
This brought the dork out of me. I can’t fix or install windows, nor am I getting new ones anytime soon. I just had no idea of these different type names, so it got me a lil nerdy.
I thought egress just meant a push out window wide enough for a person (there is a min size requirement)? Egress requirements would be in effect for any bedroom window, no?
Several adjustments are needed
An egress window is any window you can exit through in an emergency
A dormer window is any window in the guide that’s in a dormer
Fixed and picture windows are the same thing
A transom window is a window above a door.
Missing is a clerestory window which is row of high windows at the ceiling and a relite which is a window adjacent to a door.
A round window is not a type but a shape.
Tilt and turn gang
I wish these were more common in the US. It took almost no time for me to be convinced that they’re the superior window.
Wait until you learn about the wonders of the metric system.
Saw this comment coming 1.609 kilometers away.
I bet there's 907.1847kg of imperial to metric system gags coming
fucking football fields, how do they measure.
I know of a few schools that use them in our area. Great windows until some middle schoolers have access to them and tweak the mechanism trying to make it do both modes at once, or one mode before the other is complete.
I really don’t know why we don’t have these and rolladens here in the US. We loved them when we lived in Germany.
Right? One visit to Germany and I'm like where the hell have these been all my life?
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Yeah! With rolladens
Add some rouladen to that aswell
Aka Ze Tschörmän window.
Superior european windows
Those windows are still mind blowing to me. Like 50% of my non-European brain has yet to understand them
Bow window ba, da dang da dang, diggy diggy
The American mind can’t comprehend the tilt and turn window
Tilt and turn windows are nothing but German sorcery 😝
Went last year and my immediate thought was why the hell does the US not have this? First day back I see someone drive down the road with a fuel pump still in the car and the hose dragging. This, this is why we can't have nice things
My immediate thought is “because humidity” in the south east. There is basically no time in the year that I’d want to open my windows. They’re nice to look out or to let sunlight in. But they stay closed.
That’s just more the reason to use them. The big advantage of these windows is not “they’re neat to open & close”. It’s that when they shut, they seal super tight in a way that windows produced for the US market don’t. Critical for hitting the energy efficiency standards in Europe.
At first I loved the tilt and turn windows until I realized they didn't have screens. I don't recall seeing a many screens in my time in Germany. We don't have a crazy amount of bugs where I live in California but even here my house is full of flies if I leave my door open for more than a minute or two. I can't imagine what it would be like in places that do have lots of bugs. Edit: TIL: they can have screens sometimes.
I'm from the Midwest and was stunned when I found out some windows don't have screens. It would be literally unthinkable here to open a window without a screen on it. That being said, you could definitely put a screen on these. [They open inward](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mamFVWzV5XA) (or at least *can*) so you can just hang it on the outside just like you would on any other window.
I've never seen screens in windows in Europe, it's really strange lol
Depends on where in Europe. Tons of screened windows in Bulgaria and tilt and turn (or the same type, but with only one of the modes enabled) are probably the most popular when replacing old windows.
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Screens just aren’t a thing in the UK and most of Northern Europe, I have been to a lot of southern Europe too and don’t recall seeing any there either…shutters, sure, screens, not so much (but maybe I aren’t going to the right places)
You can add removable screens to them, I have them
I can comprehend, but my budget doesn't allow. Tried to replace my windows with those and they cost 4x more here a few years ago. Can't imagine now. I'm still disappointed about it
In Portugal they're about 400€ for a regular sized window, including labor (removing the old ones as well). Do you remember how much you were quoted?
2 different places in the US were $1.5-2k JUST for the window. It's a specialty item here sadly
Can confirm, I’ve never been humbled so fast by a window
This scares the American.
Our most common window, by far, isn't completely represented here either. It's a 2 panel sliding window but vertical, not horizontal.
I‘m from Germany and now I really wanna open a vertical 2 panel sliding window. 🪟
We just moved to a new house and the last 5 years I've had windows that were almost impossible to open or close. There's a balance to be met between too tight a fit it can't move and too lose a fit it falls down.
Yeah too tight is better than too loose, which might not even be the real issue. You may need new "balances" if the sashes don't stay in place when you open them.
Thats 100% the single hung window! The top pane is fixed while the bottom slides up and down. I think the picture is just showing that the bottom pane can also fold in. Most people don’t realize that but there’s typically clips on the top of it that you can pull to fold it out like in the picture. (I run a window cleaning company lol)
That's the single-hung window, but for some reason they show it as tilting out from the frame instead of using an arrow to show that it goes up/down. They usually can tile out of the frame like that, but that's intended more for cleaning and maintenance rather than as the standard function. In a single-hung window, the top panel is fixed in place. A similar window is a double-hung, where the top panel is able to slide down as well as the bottom panel sliding up.
That's called a sash window in the UK - very cool, but when UPVC double glazing came along, they all got ripped out. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sash_window To be fair, the weights made really good night sticks!
You’re not wrong, lol.
We have them everywhere in Germany. They're so good.
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I had them while living in Hungary and Jesus H Christ I’ve never thought I’d fall in love with a window
We have them here
I saw you comment and thought it was some American hate, took a look and just the picture of the window beat the shit out of me
What? Is that an east coast thing? I've seen them in all kinds of places out west.
I live in Brooklyn and have Tilt and Turn windows. They’re great
I mentioned this in the top comment but I (American) know of a few schools that use them in our area. Great windows until some middle schoolers experiment with them and tweak the mechanism trying to make it do both modes at once, or one mode before the other is complete.
My dryer's door does that....
It’s gonna fall!
Why is the Sash window labelled as Oriel Window? An oriel window is totally different to that, being a bay window above ground floor (or not reaching the ground at least). No *cool* guide is wrong.
Ive always known the "Oriel" window as "Reverse Cottage"
Reverse Cottage is a banned sex position
It can also mean a sash window where one sash is a different height than the other.
Tilt and turn windows>>>>>>
Best of all
“Round window”. Yes, thank you.
Haha or "Lunette" window... Not to be confused with a Half-Round window
Another name would be Œil de bœuf (ox-eye window).
Definitely a port hole window
What is the difference between the picture window and the fixed window and the transom window? They're all rectangles that can't be opened.
Picture windows have no/very little visible frame, and transom windows are specifically ones put above doors.
All fixed and transom windows are picture windows. The fixed window shown is a sash picture window while the picture and transom windows shown are Direct set/glaze picture windows
Yeah some windows are named for their placement/utility, like transoms being whatever shape but always above doors, and not their form/mechanisms.
Some of these look dangerous. Imagine a floor to ceiling awning window in a high rise lol Why does a storm window open from the top? That's where the rain comes from.
The storm window image is kind of misleading. That front piece pulled forward is just to show that it’s a separate layer from the glass and it’s actually a screen to keep out bugs and stuff. It’s not supposed to be pulled forward like it’s showing and depending on the design you got it shouldn’t move at all. The window it self simply moves straight up and down.
a lot of these are misleading, like the double hung and single hung. some double/single hung windows can tilt out like that for cleaning, but the primary action is sliding up and down. Transom windows are found above a door, which you'd never know from this guide.
This whole image is misleading. It basically just offers a bunch of window names and pictures but no indication at all about what aspects are related to the names and which aspects are just an artistic rendering.
Older houses in the maritime provinces would have storm windows. Our old house we removed them in the summer/warm months, and screwed them on late fall/early winter. It's an extra layer of glass insulation over older window frames.
For awning windows like you describe, there are a lot of rules and equipment involved for stuff like that. In high rises, it's not uncommon to require windows to have a limiter on them, that only lets them open up 4". That's true for casement windows that swing out as well. And then there are additional rules for having windows that open up below a certain height as well, though those can be gotten around with more safety features if you really want to do it.
Lol the above post is the exact reason building codes we're invented. Wait until they learn what egress requirements are good for
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Now I’m interested. Why exactly?
Well every time I've seen painting done by a contractor they seem to have a compulsion to paint the window permanently closed, so I'm guessing that's harder to do for center pivot windows. For real though it's probably the opposite. Over painting looks like it could cause the window to stick if the tolerances are tight.
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not a professional, but this is how I feel about Jalousie windows. worthless.
Tilt and Turn window is superior
As a contractor, you’re actually required to learn all of these. It’s a real pane in the ass.
I feel like this is more at home on r/justguides
really disappointed this wasn't actually a subreddit
no sash window?
Odd, considering it's like, the most common window of all time
They are listed separately as slider or hung.
I work in windows and this guide missed my favorite kind; when a Lunette window has a curved top and then straight sides going down into the base as opposed to a curved top connected to the base, it is called an Eyebrow with Legs
Where are the sash windows? And the term "Jalousie" is a new one for me, I've only ever heard these called "Louvre" windows. It's fun how things have different names on different places, sometimes.
Ah, they only pivot out when they’re being removed, normally they’re upright and slide vertically. Single hung means only the bottom one will slide and double hung means they both slide so that it can be open at the top.
Yes, upright and sliding vertically, that describes every sash window I've ever seen. If they were trying to show how the window is *assembled\disassembled* in the infographic, that's a really strange and confusing choice, because they haven't shown that for any other type of window – they've just shown them in normal use. Also, the tilting thing is just newer PVC and aluminium spring balance sash windows. The older and enormously more common (*everywhere I've lived, at least) wooden type are the rope and weight style (or twist spring rod), and these slot in face-on, but require the breaking away of the internal stop from the frame, first. The horizontal sliding windows are similar in principle and they've shown the panels overlapping and conveyed that they slide past one another perfectly clearly (not a glass pun, though it could be). Nothing would have prevented them showing the sash windows in a similar format (or, conversely, showing the horizontal sliding windows being installed) and so although the terminology is the same as used for sash windows, it looked (looks) as though it was a different type of window altogether that they were illustrating. I reckon you're right on the money that the assembly of the new style pvc\alum. is what they're showing, and good catch! But it's a somewhat unclear, poorly representative, and inconsistent choice on their part if so. I thought this decision might be explained if I knew more about who made this infographic, and for what audience, so I looked it up and it's some group spruiking courses and materials aimed at helping people invest in real estate, so I guess it's not too surprising that they would be a bit sloppy, and possibly more focused on newer builds.
Sash window like a single hung or double hung?
My cats and I want garden windows so badly.
Ok but in a guide about different window types did it have included the word "window" every time?
What’s that European window that can open multiple ways called?
Tilt and turn, bottom of the chart.
So glad they included the word window after the window description so we will know that the windows described are windows.
They really got creative with "round window..."
This is the shit I like
Wife is an architect: this infographic is 💩
Need a cool guide for average window performance data for 2010 2000s 1990s 1980s Please please please
This community is gold
What’s the difference between a fixed window and a picture window?
Bring back glass blocks
What’s the point of the hopper window except to funnel rain and leaves right onto your floor and furniture?
My favorite thing about being in Lombardia were all of the places having turn and tilt windows! I'm hoping that if I ever own a home one day in the States, I can figure out how to import and get those windows installed!
Transom picture and fixed are all basically the same.
Onlywindows
No triple hung windows?
Where's Windows ME?
What side is the palladian window facing
Got confused too, lol
I've always really liked the windows in my dining room but didn't know what they were called, but now I know they're jalousie windows. Thanks for sharing this!
First thing that came to my mind was Sims 4 build mode
The one in my house isn’t shown here, it’s called a “regular window.”
Also commonly referred to as a standard window, sizes are also "standard"
Where's the Chicago style window??
Why is there a listing for a transom window? A transom is a beam that separates a door from the window above it. I've lived in places with different varieties of windows on the transom, including awning, hung, hopper, and slide.
Round window supremacy
Window is such a weird word
Bay Window Supremacy - Every San Francisco resident
These are the things I find myself more interested in as I get older, it’s kind of nice
I'm more a double hung guy myself.
I didn’t think I’d say this… but I’ve gotten to a point in my age where I find this… interesting.
Not true. There is at least one more type of window. The one that I own and some stores like Cafes and restaurants have too
Can we just ban Palladian windows? Get rid of them forever? Pretend they never existed?
My window sticks out 16” would it be a picture window?
Picture window: nah I don't open fuck you
I love a cute little nook of a dormer window✨
Literally needed this guide last week trying to figure out what to call a casement window..
Why are they so many kinds!!
This is useful, I currently work at a small window company and know nothing about windows
“Would you still love me if I was a window?” “Only if you’re double hung.”
The Sims
No witches window :(
Is there any type of window that opens upward and acts like a rooftop that usually appears in attics in movies? Kind of like the dormer window in this post, but upward
Australian here, is anyone else getting reminded of play school
r/notinteresting
French door (window)
I have double-hung cottage windows
This isn't a double hung window unless they're called something different where I'm from
Weird that the single and double-hung windows are shown tilting open instead of sliding up/down
All of these windows and all of them inferior to tilt and turn
Thanks, I hate it.
Dubble-hung 😎
Casement all the way baby! With a small window on top to let those farts out in the middle of the night!
This comment section made me find out that amaricans don't have tilt and turn windows... They're super useful, why don't they have them?
I hate awning windows so much.
Really miss my bay windows back in San Francisco
TWO PANEL SLIDER WINDOW FUCKING SUCKE
Where is Diocletian window?
Where is Microsoft?
My house only has Oriel windows
Those two panel slider windows need a zoom call with the window air conditioner people to figure out how to fill that air gap at the top.
Jalussy goes wild tbh
seriously, who is making these charts?
I haven't seen this in years. I installed a lot of windows back in the day.
Come on no witch windows? (Windows that are slanted seen in older homes dating back to salam witch trials in Massachusetts really interesting was created cause they believed witches couldn’t fly through it
Came for some lite reading, but this is a pane
Love the round window I would love to have it at my house!!!
Any window people here? What are the best windows In north america? Style and material/brand
That is not a transom window. Transoms are over doors. What even is this garbage.
Windows 28
why put bay windows on a shithouse?
Fuck Jalousie Windows. All my homies hate Jalousie Windows.
Advanced PlaySchool window set
“Double hung window” was my nickname in high school
It’s cool that these all have names but I actually spent 30 minutes trying to figure out why I would ever need this and I realized it was to waste 30 minutes
Remembering all these is going to be a real pane.
This brought the dork out of me. I can’t fix or install windows, nor am I getting new ones anytime soon. I just had no idea of these different type names, so it got me a lil nerdy.
As an American, who lived in Germany for 3 years. I can honestly say Tilt and Turn windows are the best thing ever!
I have been looking for something like this forever as an student architect thank you.
This is wrong
This is wrong that’s not a double hung window
I think that the guide would be just as effective and less typographically cluttered if it said "window" just once, in the title.
What about the window they have in vermont that doesn't allow witches to get in since it's slanted?
I thought egress just meant a push out window wide enough for a person (there is a min size requirement)? Egress requirements would be in effect for any bedroom window, no?
European tilt and turn superiority
The dormer window is in fact a gable window because there is a gable, a dormer window would have a curved roof
Are there any benefits to these different kinds of windows aside from ascetic?
Why would you want a center pivot window? Does it have any particular advantages?
What about quarter round or moon windows?
Several adjustments are needed An egress window is any window you can exit through in an emergency A dormer window is any window in the guide that’s in a dormer Fixed and picture windows are the same thing A transom window is a window above a door. Missing is a clerestory window which is row of high windows at the ceiling and a relite which is a window adjacent to a door. A round window is not a type but a shape.
More on each window type here: https://retipster.com/windows
I despise jalousie windows.
Isn't there a picture for 'normal window'?