I remember seeing electric shutters in more fancy houses/apartments in the mid 90's here in Portugal and they already had individual controls in each room. More recently I've seen them in less fancy/expensive constructions too. As for the manual ones, I live in a 60 year old house that had them since it was built.
@@highks496 - At that time only the more wealthy people could afford them and the builders usually wouldn't spend that kind of money to equip more affordable flats with such a "fancy" system. Most people were used to the manual ones, anyway.
So you say, the USA has Tornadoes, Hurricanes, a relatively high crime rate, extreme hot and cold weather, but you build your houses out of straw and use paper window blinds? Great idea. 🤪
It's not straw ... it's cardboard ... still weak enough for a wolf to blow it over after a bit of huffing and puffing. Americans dont take children's stories AND PAST HURRICANE EXPERIENCES seriously and thus NEVER LEARN and build better houses.
I mean, unless tehy're amde out of metal for some reason (I want them to keep out heat, not *store* it!) Rolladen won't stop a theif for more than a few hammer swings. ANd then you stil have to deal with the windows, but I guess they add some tiome and neighbor annoyance in order to get the cops in faster.
I'm italian and the thing that surprise me the most is your reaction😅this is what's normal here, and it's very funny to see how this simple thing for us amaze you so much. You have a nice channel, compliments
I‘m italian too and had pretty much the same feeling of the reaction. I think they are so common to us in europe, that we overlook them. In the last 50 years there was used nothing else and in the last 20-30 years pretty much all of them are automatic with electronic switches. Great channel btw 👌👌
They are called "persianas" in Spain. Almost all the houses/flats have them. Very nice if you want to sleep in the morning because they blackout a room completely. Another use is to block most of the sun in summer so the inside of the house don't get too hot.
@@jonathanfinan722 nah shut up in algarve aka Portugal we have persianas in all the houses and flats, i think i never saw windows without one, even super old houses
your primary import would be heart attacks, given the prices of such quality stuff. Knowing the cardboard houses build be the cheapest bidder being so widely accepted I would assume you would have to sell them at a loss in order to convice Americans.
Keeps cold out, keeps heat out, keeps light out. Keeps small animals out, One can partly close them. One can even open the window while the Rolladen are down with the little gaps, so air can come in. Manual or electrical, individual or combined, plastics or metal, can be stopped in every position you like: completely dark, a few gaps to all gaps, to half down, totally open...
Roller shutters were invented in France in 1854. They used to be made of wooden slats, but today PVC or aluminum is mostly used. The easiest way to operate them is with a belt, while more comfortable ones have a crank. Today, in many houses they are motorized and automated as smart homes. Roller shutters have been standard equipment in Western European houses for around 50 years.
When the windows are quite large (like the full-height window at the start of the video) companies strongly suggest them being motorized, because they would be very heavy for manual operation.
Not a standard here mate, you have to buy them yourself. It's rare to find a new house with shutters already installed. Those are usually done on request of the buyer.
I'm Portuguese, I'm 49 years old and I don't remember a time where rolladen didn't existed. Every single house or apartment has, at least, the manual ones.
Some have "portadas" instead though. My late grandmother's house had the wooden interior ones, for instance. But I don't think I've ever seen a single place without one or the other.
@@carpediem4091 yup, I've been in a few houses that have "portadas" (the kind without any hole) instead of rolladen (aka persianas). They were mainly older homes, built before 1970's.
typical, the house of my grandparents has been build in 1960, it still has the wooden rollläden, though the wooden ones are harder to break into for whatever reason. The house I live in is somewhere from 1870-1910 it also has the older wooden style. Still work though. The must have been installed when doubble glazed windows baecame standard.
Same here in germany, build in the 60's wooden rolling shutters were standard, in the 70's the house was expanded and plastic ones were standard, not as durable but cheaper and less heavy. These days automated ones are standard, often with smart home integration, however one window must remain manual or without shutters as emergency exit in case of fire during blackout.
I think these are pretty standard in all of Europe. Our house was built in 1987, so we have manual ones. And they are not metal, but made from a very strong plastic.
I'm Belgian and bought a 1960s last year. It indeed had the wooden version and they weighed a ton! Due to the renovation, we had to get rid of them and were surprisingly easy to remove. Also surprisingly, after 60 years they were still fully operational.
It's mindboggling how some features are standard for over half a century in some places but are totally rare in others. Those shutters have so many advantages during hot summer times. If you have them shut during the day with only tiny slits the house remains cool and you don't need any ac boosting your monthly electricity bills. The reason why they are so effective is the placement INFRONT of the window frame so it won't transfer to the inside over the window frame. Another advantage is during night time. You could have your windows open while the shutters are almost completely down and they will allow air flowing through while keeping bad people out since they are extremely loud (and heavy) when you try to move them up by hand
2:23 thats not a secondary cover, the shutters are losely connected so they are flexible so that they can be rolled up in the mechanics to take up as little space as possible, the gaps also allow some light to keep comming through so once they hit the bottom they get pushed closer together so that that gap closes and it becomes entirely black out dark
My (dutch) house has them as well. They don't all go simultaneously but we have them as well in white. Not only is it a barrier to prevent break ins. But when they are down it blocks light 100% so you can even sleep during the day if you want to. No one can peek into your home. It also keeps heat inside the home during the winter. And it keeps the house cooler during the summer time. They are fantastic. During the summer I open my windows inwards but with my "blinds" down. That way I still get fresh air but keep the heat outside. Fantastic invention.
@@owbeer and we recently got Google Home in the house. Now we can make the blinds go up with a voice command or on a timer as well. So if you have like a sleep protocol installed you basically give the voice command and doors lock themselves, lights go out and the blinds shut themselves. Its so handy. Gotta love technology.
For very very long time in the south of europe... not sure if century and a half. But a century sure (I've been in 100yo houses with simpler versions of this)
I'm honestly shocked no one in the US has thought of importing these and installing them in hurricane prone areas. But then I'm still confused why they insist on building houses out of plywood. I understand how it started the early settlers had access to almost unlimited cheap wood but with modern industry and reinforced concrete plentiful and almost as cheap you'd think they'd start changing things.
@@ianjardine7324 Because they can not make 1000000% profit on them? cost them 20k to build, and then sell them with half a million....that's one of the reasons, and 2nd they are using the mentality, that it's easier to rebuild than to refurbish, it is cheaper for the insurance to build a 20k home out of cardboard than to refurbish a concrete one after a hurricane and spend 150-200k to repair structurally damaged to the walls, etc...
German here. This one with the strap he is pulling back and letting slowly go (also to adjust the height and coverage of the blinds) - my grandparents had those installed in the house my grandpa built. I am 50 years old. That must have been the 50's of last century... admittedly they were made from heavy wood instead of metal, but the principle was just the same. That technology is _really_ ancient! Love your vids. It is fascinating to me, how such everyday-normal-life things are totally different around the world. Cant travel, but there is RUclips to learn! Thanks for your curiousity and the journey it takes us to, immensely appreciated 😊
I have these in aluminium on every window. It helps insulate the windows at night (heat loss weak point), reduces outside noise, creates a dark room (nightshift sleeper ?), and increases security against burglars. They install in a cassette above the window outside. Not crazy expensive if installed during the build.
I had mine in the kitchen repaired a couple of weeks ago (strap snapped) and the system, as I could see, is really simple - a wooden roll in the middle, the strap is connected to that, the lower end of the strap has a mechanism to pull it back, so it rolls up the rollladen. The cassette they're in is isolated against the house's inside, so it doesn't let in cold or heat.
@@cayreet5992 well about that insulation...xD this is were a lot of cheap workers do cheap work. they dont insulate it at all or properly. but yeah its a damn simple principle. repaired mine on my own 5 months ago.
We have them in Australia too. Not the cheapest thing to fit to a whole house but very cool. Usually fitted here for both security and thermal regulation. They're quite a clever design as well. You can push them from the inside to get out of a windows in case of fire but very strong if pushed from the outside.
@@IWrockerMore Superdupont house as it's a French invention...it was made of wood...I believe it was for shops window to make it easier to close fast!
The ones at my parent's house (manually operated) were fitted in 1961, and have been used since then almost everyday. A couple of years ago they were retrofitted to motor operated and smart-controlled, but the "rolluiken" (in Dutch) were still good enough "for another 70 years of daily use" according to the mechanic. Extremely reliable stuff!
We have these in Australia too and we call them roller shutters, not all houses have them though, they’re expensive and you usually have to get them installed yourself. They are even classed as “extras” when you build a house.
When you lower them, they hang in a kind of a vertical zig zag way, exposing the little holes in them. When you lower them more, they start to stand on top of each other, and the pattern closes up bottom first. That way you can totally darken the place, or have some light, or lots of light.
I love my Rollläden. When we have storm or strong winds here - and thats pretty often - i always put them down because we have some old trees in front of our house and so i can protect the windows from fallen branches etc. Gives a better and secure feeling.
It was recommended to me by a "Rollladen-Builder" that the Rolladen should be up during a storm, as it is cheaper to replace a broken window than to replace the Rollladen. Just saying...
"Rollläden" can be dangerous ! Sometimes in summer, when i came home early in the morning totally drunk from a party on a beautyful sunday morning... my room was pitch-black the whole sunday, so i slept until monday, because i thougt it was still night ;-)
Once stayed at a friend's home... had a lot to drink and went to bed in the office room quite drunk. The Rollläden went down on their own in the house, and I suddenly found myself in a foreign room, completely filled with unfamiliar furniture, in the utter mineshaft-like pitch dark, and with an IMMENSE urge to pee. Obviously, neither phone nor lightswitch were anywhere to be found. Had to yell for help to get out actually, but to my credit I didn't relieve myself onto the floor, even though at the moment I felt like I had any right to :).
In Australia I believe these are for bushfire protection but also helps keep the house cool in summer. Not needed where I live for bushfires but some people have them for insulation ( more efficient to prevent the sun from reaching your windows ) and also for security.
My German in-laws house had these as did both of the properties we rented whist stationed over there in the eighties and nineties. Nice in Summer, as you can open the windows inwards and roll down shutters 90% to let the breeze through and the sunlight out.
Rolling shutters are super common in France. Mine are just on my upstairs attic windows and they block out the sun when it is beating down. I have classic wooden shutters on the lower level, but I never close them.
Not all German houses have these shutters, but a lot. We only have them on the ground floor and only on the south side because this side needs them for climate control and burglary protection. And not all electric shutters are centrally controlled. There are often switches next to the window. As shown in the last video, you don't have to close them completely. Ours are only automatically closed at day to 25% if there is too much sun during the day to provide some shade for the rooms behind them.
This is very common, the italian term is "tapparelle" At the ground level, and sometimes even at higher floors, you can use the metallics ones, for break-in risk reduction (instead of steel bars), and those are usually motorised because they are quite heavy Normally, all the windows and glass doors have tapparelle (or rolladen) made in plastic (PVC) and are manual, like in the second video, some may use a filling or even aluminum, to make them harder to break It's so weird when you go abroad and people have some form of curtains or fabric "blinds", very inefficient (you don't get pitch black)
They're called roller shutters. We have them in Australia too. You can close them but let air in through the holes. The last bit of closing is where the shutters close completely (sort of inside each other) and the holes are closed too. Keeps heat, weather and undesirables out.
My house is from 1974 and of course it has shutters everywhere. I electrified all the shutters in the 1990s and integrated them into my smart home again in the 2010s. My shutters either go up and down at a certain time, or a daylight sensor controls them at sunrise and sunset. Each window also has an individual light sensor, so if the sun shines too much, the respective roller shutter is lowered just enough to prevent the room behind that window from heating up. I also have large panoramic windows in the living room, here the shutters are also controlled by a wind sensor to lower the shutters at a certain wind strength to avoid broken quadruple glazing due to wind pressure. Incidentally, my parents' house was built in 1955 and of course it also has roller shutters, made of wood and operated manually, but roller shutters are quite normal in Germany. If I now tell you that my skylights are closed automatically in the event of rain or wind and that they also have automatic shutters.... 🤣👋🇩🇪🇪🇺 Btw. I can check the status of my roller shutters and skylights worldwide via app on my smartphone and open or close them if necessary, in case I forget. Just like my front door. Is SmartHome actually an issue in the States? I can control the heating and lights for each room individually, my garage door, my solar system on the roof etc. via my home server or via an app anywhere in the world. I'd be really interested to know whether this is on the way to becoming the norm in the States as well as here. Smart home systems are getting cheaper and cheaper here and you can also retrofit older houses, like mine. If you're a bit tech-savvy, it's a great thing, I've retrofitted and installed most of it myself and have also been able to convert the whole thing from external clouds to my own cloud solution. It's fun to be able to walk from the attic to the basement in the dark in the evening and the light switches on seconds before you enter a room and switches off again when you leave, it kind of follows you. well, you have to have a thing for such gadgets.
The first roller shutter was registered in Germany in 1854, so it is not new for us in Europe. :) Though it was made of wood for over a century, and gaps were bigger between the slats (as they did not slide into each other just one over the other. The modern plastic and aluminum ones were introduced in the 50's or 60's.
BTW: Wooden ones were made gapless, too. The ones I'm looking at right now are from the 60s, the pieces have a rounded top with the matching indent at the bottom.
In Italy we had them in out house when I was a little kid, and I'm 59 years old. Today, in the case of automated shutters, single operation is preferred
I grew up in a house with Rollläden, and seeing your excitement about them makes me appreciate the small things more. That's why I like your videos. Greetings from Hamburg
6:12 yes you are right. we use them in the summer to prevent heat coming in from the windows. the manual ones in this clip can also easily upgraded with motors that have (random) timers
I have them al over my house more than 25 years. I use them in the summer too keep the sun out and the room cooler, and in the winter it helps to keep the room warmer. They are great for ventilation. Close them halfway, open the window ( turn tilt), great. Greetings from the Netherlands. Love your comparison videos.
We had them fitted to a house we owned in Brisbane Australia when my husband was doing night shifts back in 2001. They block noise as well as the light. We went through countless heavy storms and a cyclone, didn't hear a thing, and no broken windows despite finding debris around the house that indicated branches had hit them during the storms. Our air conditioning running costs reduced drastically in that house because the insulating effect of having the shutters fully down meant that once we either warmed or cooled the house we could turn the aircon off overnight and for several hours through the day. Because of the type of windows we have they can't be fitted at our current home, but I would definitely get them again if we moved to a modern house. Several of my family members and work colleagues invested in them after we spread the word about how good they are,
Switzerland here. I grew up in an apartment house built in 1968 and we had those with the straps. There were horizontal gaps between the bars, all connected with small and short chains. They locked together like tongue and groove, no light came in even in the brightest summer
my house have both aluminium roller blinds (for my large bays) and wooden shutters for other windows, but lots of houses are only using roller blinds. Those can be programmed to close/open at a given hour, or you can even open/close them with your phone. You will find roller blinds in about any appartment, as they do not need space outside and are very practical.
Check out Spain🇪🇸 they have heavy duty stuff.... When the "Persianas" is completely shut you reach up and put a 10-ish mm allen key inside a hole above the window🪟(indoors) and nobody can open them from outside. It is not easy to enter if they have a "vault" style entrance door... On top of that they usually got a iron bars as a first shell...
the security aspect is secondary, Germans like privacy and most like it totally dark where they are sleeping and it helps with isolation concerning temperature and similar to blinds with blinding sun light, some even dampen noise. the roller shutters are usually relatively simple and manual but you can get fancy and automated, even on timers or controlled via app.
These types of barricaded blinds are often used when you leave the house for a while like weeks/months, or during storms etc as they help protect the window glass panes from debris, branches, etc. And of course also discourage any potential intruders just in case :) Can't easily throw a brick through a window when its sealed with metal shutters. These blinds are not found everywhere in Europe, some places they're more common than others. But if you travel through the continent you'll see them especially in Germany, Italy, France, etc. Less so up north.
You can also switch them remotely with your cellphone, no problem. Or couple them with a wind speed warner device and have them close or open automatically (of course you get a message on your phone) when you´re not home. Has been around for years in Europe.
"All German houses have this" is a sentence that does not apply to anything a house could have. Whenever I heard someone say that in a video thus far, it was incorrect. Many houses have this. Many don't. Since this is a bit of a luxury thing (just a bit), expect to find this in more in places with higher rent or single family homes. If the rent is cheap, you probably won't have this feature. They're also not always automatic. I have never lived in a house with automatic shutters myself.
the centralized control unit is a step up to the "regular" electric ones as well. As this was an older video, the house most likely had KNX or some similar bus system.
It's the norm also in France and they're called "volets roulant". The automated version exist for at least 30 years now but are not that common (It's way more expensive). Depending on the age of the building there is 3 different control mecanism : - The crank - The chain - The strap (As seen in the video). In the summer they can help a lot to keep the temperature lower (5°C less than without those) in the house
What i really love about all your reactions is your openness to doing things different. You said America feels backwards - well guess what, Germany feels that too in other topics. What I appreciate is leaving your safe space and your bubble and looking for differences in culture without feeling offended or anything. No one of us lives in a perfect country, but it is very nice to see someone with an open mind like you. Thank you!
I used to live in a 140 year old house in southern Germany and it has "Rolläden" in wood with a option to strech them outside from the window about 20 to 30 inches. It was so cool !!
Rolläden are common in Europe. We have them also (Slovenia)... But we call them rolete. You can make almost pitch dark with them. They can be metal, they can be plasti, motorised or manual. They funcion similar to your garage door, but they roll up in the box above the window. Our house is 50+ years old, we have them from the begginging. Rolläden are quite old contraption. Shops use metal ones for anti break in protection. And the windows are better too. Like three glassed with insulating gas inside, you can opem them fully or just on kip (ventus).
Italian here. I can't sleep without roller shutters (tapparella in Italy) I need pitch black to sleep. The older houses have manual ones, but you can easilly install automatic shutters, is not that expensive. Plus, I didn't see it in this video (I don't know if it's because there is no such a thing in Germany or simply it's not shown), but the window shutters, once closed or partially closed, can be "opened". I try to explain: once closed, half of the roller shutter can be pushed outwards using a sort of lever located in the lower central part of the frame which creates a sort of 90° angle and the shutter gradually moves further away from the window creating a sort of awning very usefull in summer because it allows air to circulate still creating a shadow
They are made out of aluminum, in any color you need. Some cheap one are made out of plastic as well. Most of them are manual (you need manually pull them up or down), but for last decade most are electric or fully automatic. In EU above 90% houses or flats have these. They help with light, but mostly with heat of the sun in summer or really cold weather in winter, and they are a must in storms (they really protect your windows from small objects in storms) Also now most of them come with separate insect blinds, between blind and windows...
This is pretty much basic standard of windows in Poland, maybe not from metal but made some sort of plastic/composite ones (i am refering to individual houses). Metal ones will be more of securing to some special place or some shops. In houses there is little metal ones, typicall plastic . You can make it automated - one button to rule them all (or even separate on/off switch near each window, or order manual ones - you will have to close /open each by yourself). You can also order mosquito neto between glass and those shutters.
You actually spell them with three L's: Rollläden (because it's a compound "Roll - Laden"). One of those quirky compounds with three of the same consonants in a row, thanks to the last spelling-reform in 1996. Rollladen is singular and Rollläden is plural by the way.
Very common here in Western Australia. I don't have them but they are as close as next door. Blocking light, direct sun, noise, fire, windblown and vandal thrown objects, and burglars are some some great advantages to make these worthwhile.
Helps in windy time, like hurricanes too :-) "Second skin" makes it cooler in summer, warmer in winter, no wind. Window open: jalousie with the tiny holes, some air comes in, but no people. We have them since a long time, like 50 - 60 years or so.
I Live in Spain. I have that thing in all the Windows of my House. Some are motorized (operated by electric motors), some are manual (operated by hand)
Never have seen them in a way where one button can close the entire house, that's definitely unusual. The manual ones are usual, but if there is a big window, the automatic one is usual, because big ones can become quite heavy to pull. My grandparents used them in hot summers to cool down their home, keeping the shutters closed during the day in summer. Of course it was dark, but so nice to be in the insulated cool house with no air condition.
German here. My son will be 32 in a few days. And I know that my parents had fully electronically controlled roller shutters on the two floors of their house, years before he was born.
10:30 This "two stage" operation is an artifact of the overall construction... Usually they are made of pieces as wide as the area they need to cover, but cut every few centimeters/inches, then they are re-joined to a sort of chain which can be rolled up easily and is hold together by tiny pieces in between the runs... So they come down like a extremely wide chain from a roll and then settle down to a solid and well interconnected barrier. ;) In the last video he explains how you can exploit that quirk to just let in a little bit of light and air while the window or door is well covered against any intruder. ;)
Every household in Serbia has some version of these. I just replaced my old wooden ones with PVC ones, the manual version which is the most common. Practically every apartment built from the 60s onwards comes with them already installed. And they are definitely not there for safety reasons but to keep the light and summer heat out
My family had this kind of system in new build home too in 1997, it also has a remote control. You can also choose to lower them down and up for each individual window/door. Not living in Germany but also in Europe. But I remember we already had these window/door shutters when when I was a very young kid in the early '70 when we livng in France, Italy, Switzerland, Spain and in Israel too. But at the time they were operated manually and individually. i also remember in end '70 or early '80 maybe, when my grandparents were older they moved from their home to an appartment, they had this same kind off system to open and close to entry and exit (but much larger doors ofc) for their parking garage underneat the entire appartment building. We knew their was a sensor below the floor near the exit door, so if a car drove over it the exit door would open automaticly. As kids we were playing around there and discovered that if my sibling and myself together with our nephew and niece would all jump on the sensor it a the same time , we could open the roller door too and then we ran around the building to ring the doorbell of our grandparents. Childish good old times.
@@bognagruba7653 as a native Pole - they are. you'll usually find them mostly installed in houses, since night-day blinds are a more popular choice as of now, but people often install them in apartments as well.
The edible ones are called roulades and are delicious. I make these a few times a year for birthdays and Christmas and New Years. I buy the best meat from the butcher we trust. He gets it from an Angus cattle breeder, it's great meat.❤️👋🏻👍🏻
@@melliW1 pssst i tried to have a bit of fun i know there name but my little brother and me allways had fun with calling them rolladen when we where at our grandmothers house as kids
Nowadays you can control these systems from anywhere using an app (+ Siri or Alexa), some even have a small solar panel installed, can be combined with smoke detectors, weather sensors, etc. This means you can control each window separately, keep out heat in the summer or make burglary more difficult and yes, in the winter it also helps to keep the heat in the house. And in the event of a fire, the combination with the smoke detector would ensure that at least one exit, if not all, of the window shutters are opened automatically. About 30 years ago, roller shutters were more of a thing in the south of Germany, but now many more houses in the north are also being equipped with them and newer rental apartments often have roller shutters at least on the ground floor.
Rollläden are not primarily for security, especially 15 years ago, but to keep the warmth in or out, depending on the season. Like passive climate control.
this is not for security reasons, this is just to sleep in darkness, even at day time. good to have when you work on shifts. My friend has it in 3rd floor apartment building in Poland
9:40 These roller shutters are called “minis” and in this example they are attached from the outside. Because it works well with minis because the box is smaller. From the outside everything is a mirror image. Now when you look at it from the outside, you actually see the inside. but it's cheap to retrofit.
My parents had these installed on the house in 1978 or so (In The Netherlands). Edit: I checked that house on Google maps. The "rolluiken" (=Dutch name for it) have been removed, but the neighbors house now have em (in a different color).
This is a standard in European homes for a century at least. In 20th century they were not motorized and were mostly woodden and plastic but the principle was the same.
In Belgium we have roller shutters too in a lot of houses (in flemish we call them rolluiken - rol= roll, luik= shutter). In older houses they are still made from wood, in newer houses in pvc or sometimes aluminium. It is wonderful in summer to keep the sun and warmth out. My bedroom is westfacing and it is amazing in summer that I can have total darkness to sleep till the moment I get up. Most in Belgium are manual with a strap but you can have a motor installed on manual ones.
What you see at the end when it goes fully dark is the slats no longer hanging from each other but resting on top of each other, coming closer together. They're made of hollow plastic or aluminum filled with dense insulation foam. This helps both with temperature and noise control. the house goes not only dar but quiet too
I had them since 1970... manual at first, automatic since around 2000 when me and my husband brought our appartement. They really let you sleep well eben during a sunny day... keep Windows protected when there's a storm or alike... plastic ones are good, aluminium ones are really protective. If rolled down half - on a super-hot day it keeps the heat outside pretty well (when closing the window early in the morning) while still having enough light
I am quite mind-blown myself, bc I was born in 1983 in Germany and roller shutters have always been there. Basically every house has them. And the houses that don't have them are either VERY old or are built intentionally without them for style or (I guess) to be a bit more affordable like student flats.
The white shutters look nice when they are new. It's difficult to clean them because you have to work from the outside. This sometimes works on the ground floor, but it doesn't work on higher floors. There are particles of exhaust gases, especially near roads, that are difficult or impossible to remove. I would therefore also choose metal or wood as a material.
...well the principal of shutters is very old and very common over whole Europe. - If it's hot during the day half closed keeps the rooms cooler - If it's cold during winter nights you get an additional layer of insulation with non moving air - Privacy well the neighbors are much closer maybe just the length of a car. - a little bit of additional protection against smashing the glass. Works like a segment door on the garage, simply smaller segments on a roll...
Marktlücke, ich wander in die USA aus und verbaue dort Rolläden. Ich werde Milliardär.😉👌 In Deutschland sind die Dinger Standard, aber auch oft sehr anfällig, sie gehen gerne kaputt aber dennoch sind sie cool.
They are standard all over europe they are almost like thin pieces of wood/plastic/metal that stack on each other the holes are used if u want a bit of light and if u wanna go full bravo 6 mode u close them all the way. they also keep the heat in houses, get rid of drafts(if window frames are made out of wood) and also protect from harsh weather like heavy rain and ice scince they are cheaper to replace than glass. Also good for privacy . They are rolled inside box above windows and u unroll them(think fancy garadge doors) most are manual and u have a strap nextto the window that u would pull up/down
The two phase effect is basically a very simple thing.. When the slats are hinging down you see the perforated strip that is connecting them which lets a bit of light through. As soon as the bottom slat reaches the bottom of the window, lowering the slats further they become stacked instead of hanging which hides the connecting strip inside the slats. Because stacking goes from bottom to top it looks like asecondary effect going up.
We have this also, my parents-in-law and also my parents at their houses and that for years. when we buy the house ours were manual with crank to move them up and down but we installed electric motors to move them by RC controllers. Especially in summer evenings they are very practical if the sun is really low and shine inside the house and the eyes you can lower them. The help to keep the noise outside and the heat inside in the winter.
the best thing is we have some systems in germany to upgrading every old window with an "Rolladen", but you have after this a small box on the top of each window outside. For manual realease you need only a small hole in the wall for the belt, the electrical version need a drilled hole for the cable and a power supply.
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It's an European thing. We had them already, when I was a little child. And now I am 69...
I remember seeing electric shutters in more fancy houses/apartments in the mid 90's here in Portugal and they already had individual controls in each room. More recently I've seen them in less fancy/expensive constructions too. As for the manual ones, I live in a 60 year old house that had them since it was built.
@@module79l28 My parents got electric ones for their house in 1999/2000 here in Germany. And their house isn't fancy, it's just a small row-house.
@@highks496 - At that time only the more wealthy people could afford them and the builders usually wouldn't spend that kind of money to equip more affordable flats with such a "fancy" system. Most people were used to the manual ones, anyway.
Rolladenbauer, Recognized apprenticeship since 1936 ;)
Right! I'm 57 and we had it in your house 50 years ago.
So you say, the USA has Tornadoes, Hurricanes, a relatively high crime rate, extreme hot and cold weather, but you build your houses out of straw and use paper window blinds? Great idea. 🤪
It's not straw ... it's cardboard ... still weak enough for a wolf to blow it over after a bit of huffing and puffing.
Americans dont take children's stories AND PAST HURRICANE EXPERIENCES seriously and thus NEVER LEARN and build better houses.
I mean, unless tehy're amde out of metal for some reason (I want them to keep out heat, not *store* it!) Rolladen won't stop a theif for more than a few hammer swings. ANd then you stil have to deal with the windows, but I guess they add some tiome and neighbor annoyance in order to get the cops in faster.
@@walkir2662 sounds like you don't have Rolläden nor experienced their functionalities in all the right ways.
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@@melindabraun6060in english Roller Shutters
Roller shutters are my profession. I install them, repair them, program them. Night shift workers are our most thankfull clients 😊
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you'd make a million in the USA
That’s awesome 🎉
I’m beyond impressed by these
Ian, I have roller shutters on my three front windows they keep the heat out, and the noise
I'm italian and the thing that surprise me the most is your reaction😅this is what's normal here, and it's very funny to see how this simple thing for us amaze you so much. You have a nice channel, compliments
I‘m italian too and had pretty much the same feeling of the reaction. I think they are so common to us in europe, that we overlook them. In the last 50 years there was used nothing else and in the last 20-30 years pretty much all of them are automatic with electronic switches. Great channel btw 👌👌
They are called "persianas" in Spain. Almost all the houses/flats have them. Very nice if you want to sleep in the morning because they blackout a room completely. Another use is to block most of the sun in summer so the inside of the house don't get too hot.
We don't have them in the UK, I wish we did. No doubt they're available but I've never seen them.
Whe had them in the 90ths in Spain... protecting the front of the restaurant
In the Algarve we just close the wooden blinds on the inside and get some decent wine from the fridge while watching shit on the TV.
@@jonathanfinan722 nah shut up in algarve aka Portugal we have persianas in all the houses and flats, i think i never saw windows without one, even super old houses
I have them at my house in Malaga in Southern Spain.
I love how impressed you are by things that we take for granted. That's why I watch ❤
If you want to be a $ millionaire, import German Blinds, Windows, Doors, or Fanta to the US - Ian will buy that all.
and an Unimog :)
Haha accurate 🎉
@@SuperWitch40 Or a diesel G Wagon!
your primary import would be heart attacks, given the prices of such quality stuff.
Knowing the cardboard houses build be the cheapest bidder being so widely accepted I would assume you would have to sell them at a loss in order to convice Americans.
New business opportunity for Ian! Especially on windows and window blinds.
Keeps cold out, keeps heat out, keeps light out. Keeps small animals out, One can partly close them. One can even open the window while the Rolladen are down with the little gaps, so air can come in.
Manual or electrical, individual or combined, plastics or metal, can be stopped in every position you like: completely dark, a few gaps to all gaps, to half down, totally open...
Roller shutters were invented in France in 1854. They used to be made of wooden slats, but today PVC or aluminum is mostly used. The easiest way to operate them is with a belt, while more comfortable ones have a crank. Today, in many houses they are motorized and automated as smart homes.
Roller shutters have been standard equipment in Western European houses for around 50 years.
no 1812 was the french version invented, in 1854 was the first german version.
When the windows are quite large (like the full-height window at the start of the video) companies strongly suggest them being motorized, because they would be very heavy for manual operation.
Its not standard, its an option.
Not a standard here mate, you have to buy them yourself. It's rare to find a new house with shutters already installed. Those are usually done on request of the buyer.
@@lordpherion7024"here" where? Just curious
I'm Portuguese, I'm 49 years old and I don't remember a time where rolladen didn't existed.
Every single house or apartment has, at least, the manual ones.
Some have "portadas" instead though. My late grandmother's house had the wooden interior ones, for instance.
But I don't think I've ever seen a single place without one or the other.
@@carpediem4091 yup, I've been in a few houses that have "portadas" (the kind without any hole) instead of rolladen (aka persianas). They were mainly older homes, built before 1970's.
when my parents built their house in 1974 (belgium) these were standard, even my grandparents house (1960) had them just not automated.
typical, the house of my grandparents has been build in 1960, it still has the wooden rollläden, though the wooden ones are harder to break into for whatever reason. The house I live in is somewhere from 1870-1910 it also has the older wooden style. Still work though. The must have been installed when doubble glazed windows baecame standard.
Same here in germany, build in the 60's wooden rolling shutters were standard, in the 70's the house was expanded and plastic ones were standard, not as durable but cheaper and less heavy.
These days automated ones are standard, often with smart home integration, however one window must remain manual or without shutters as emergency exit in case of fire during blackout.
I think these are pretty standard in all of Europe. Our house was built in 1987, so we have manual ones. And they are not metal, but made from a very strong plastic.
I'm Belgian and bought a 1960s last year. It indeed had the wooden version and they weighed a ton! Due to the renovation, we had to get rid of them and were surprisingly easy to remove. Also surprisingly, after 60 years they were still fully operational.
@@jernejulcar8325 The kind of plastic that is strong but elastic. Impossible to break. It twists and turns, but won't break... 😂
It's mindboggling how some features are standard for over half a century in some places but are totally rare in others.
Those shutters have so many advantages during hot summer times. If you have them shut during the day with only tiny slits the house remains cool and you don't need any ac boosting your monthly electricity bills. The reason why they are so effective is the placement INFRONT of the window frame so it won't transfer to the inside over the window frame.
Another advantage is during night time. You could have your windows open while the shutters are almost completely down and they will allow air flowing through while keeping bad people out since they are extremely loud (and heavy) when you try to move them up by hand
When you say “Rollläden”. It sounds like “Rouladen”. Which is a delicious meal. hahaha.
I said that accedently myself my fam tought it was funny now i always call the Rollladen Rouladen.
Btw. im german :D
That's why I got hungry when watching the video, hearing "yummy Rouladen" instead all the time . 😀
Und ich bekomme jedes Mal Hunger...
I'm guessing "Rouladen" in German is the same as "Rollade" in Dutch , wich basicly is rolled up meat in those red and white butcher ropes.
in swedish "rullader" lol ..
2:23 thats not a secondary cover, the shutters are losely connected so they are flexible so that they can be rolled up in the mechanics to take up as little space as possible, the gaps also allow some light to keep comming through so once they hit the bottom they get pushed closer together so that that gap closes and it becomes entirely black out dark
My (dutch) house has them as well. They don't all go simultaneously but we have them as well in white. Not only is it a barrier to prevent break ins. But when they are down it blocks light 100% so you can even sleep during the day if you want to. No one can peek into your home. It also keeps heat inside the home during the winter. And it keeps the house cooler during the summer time. They are fantastic.
During the summer I open my windows inwards but with my "blinds" down. That way I still get fresh air but keep the heat outside. Fantastic invention.
same here, windows open and the "rolladen" almost fully down for a nice breeze at night
Yes same here and in the winter time it saves energie..
@@owbeer and we recently got Google Home in the house. Now we can make the blinds go up with a voice command or on a timer as well. So if you have like a sleep protocol installed you basically give the voice command and doors lock themselves, lights go out and the blinds shut themselves. Its so handy. Gotta love technology.
Yeah, I do the same in summer. And pull them down in winter the moment the sun goes down to keep the heat inside.
Same.... heel blij met mijn rolluiken
This has been standard in Europe - for more than half a century.
A century and a half, i'd say so.
not in all europe. I've never seen these in sweden or norway
For very very long time in the south of europe... not sure if century and a half. But a century sure (I've been in 100yo houses with simpler versions of this)
only in handful of countries. Definitely not a europe-wide standard
These where used in the 1800's but mostly for shops and in wood. Never known a time when these were not around.
They can also protect the glass in doors and windows during a hurricane. We have them in the Caribbean too!
If they´re steal in steal rails build into the walls they probably withstand a F3 keeping the windows safe when shut completly.
That’s great to hear! Makes sense 😎🎉
I'm honestly shocked no one in the US has thought of importing these and installing them in hurricane prone areas. But then I'm still confused why they insist on building houses out of plywood. I understand how it started the early settlers had access to almost unlimited cheap wood but with modern industry and reinforced concrete plentiful and almost as cheap you'd think they'd start changing things.
@@ianjardine7324 Because they can not make 1000000% profit on them? cost them 20k to build, and then sell them with half a million....that's one of the reasons, and 2nd they are using the mentality, that it's easier to rebuild than to refurbish, it is cheaper for the insurance to build a 20k home out of cardboard than to refurbish a concrete one after a hurricane and spend 150-200k to repair structurally damaged to the walls, etc...
@@ianjardine7324 me to
German here. This one with the strap he is pulling back and letting slowly go (also to adjust the height and coverage of the blinds) - my grandparents had those installed in the house my grandpa built. I am 50 years old. That must have been the 50's of last century... admittedly they were made from heavy wood instead of metal, but the principle was just the same. That technology is _really_ ancient!
Love your vids. It is fascinating to me, how such everyday-normal-life things are totally different around the world. Cant travel, but there is RUclips to learn! Thanks for your curiousity and the journey it takes us to, immensely appreciated 😊
I have these in aluminium on every window. It helps insulate the windows at night (heat loss weak point), reduces outside noise, creates a dark room (nightshift sleeper ?), and increases security against burglars. They install in a cassette above the window outside. Not crazy expensive if installed during the build.
I had mine in the kitchen repaired a couple of weeks ago (strap snapped) and the system, as I could see, is really simple - a wooden roll in the middle, the strap is connected to that, the lower end of the strap has a mechanism to pull it back, so it rolls up the rollladen. The cassette they're in is isolated against the house's inside, so it doesn't let in cold or heat.
@@cayreet5992 well about that insulation...xD this is were a lot of cheap workers do cheap work. they dont insulate it at all or properly. but yeah its a damn simple principle. repaired mine on my own 5 months ago.
We have them in Australia too. Not the cheapest thing to fit to a whole house but very cool. Usually fitted here for both security and thermal regulation. They're quite a clever design as well. You can push them from the inside to get out of a windows in case of fire but very strong if pushed from the outside.
Fire protection too
Me, opening my Bat Cave every morning in Germany.
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@@IWrockerMore Superdupont house as it's a French invention...it was made of wood...I believe it was for shops window to make it easier to close fast!
Best comment. 😏
The ones at my parent's house (manually operated) were fitted in 1961, and have been used since then almost everyday. A couple of years ago they were retrofitted to motor operated and smart-controlled, but the "rolluiken" (in Dutch) were still good enough "for another 70 years of daily use" according to the mechanic.
Extremely reliable stuff!
Rolläden are the patron saint of all nightshift workers 👍
Yep! Keep light out and most street noise...
We have these in Australia too and we call them roller shutters, not all houses have them though, they’re expensive and you usually have to get them installed yourself.
They are even classed as “extras” when you build a house.
When you lower them, they hang in a kind of a vertical zig zag way, exposing the little holes in them. When you lower them more, they start to stand on top of each other, and the pattern closes up bottom first. That way you can totally darken the place, or have some light, or lots of light.
I love my Rollläden. When we have storm or strong winds here - and thats pretty often - i always put them down because we have some old trees in front of our house and so i can protect the windows from fallen branches etc. Gives a better and secure feeling.
It was recommended to me by a "Rollladen-Builder" that the Rolladen should be up during a storm, as it is cheaper to replace a broken window than to replace the Rollladen. Just saying...
@@femaleonthewatch I have aluminium bars that i can replace when one is bend. the bar costs around 3€ and i have around 200 in my shed.
"Rollläden" can be dangerous ! Sometimes in summer, when i came home early in the morning totally drunk from a party on a beautyful sunday morning... my room was pitch-black the whole sunday, so i slept until monday, because i thougt it was still night ;-)
Once stayed at a friend's home... had a lot to drink and went to bed in the office room quite drunk. The Rollläden went down on their own in the house, and I suddenly found myself in a foreign room, completely filled with unfamiliar furniture, in the utter mineshaft-like pitch dark, and with an IMMENSE urge to pee. Obviously, neither phone nor lightswitch were anywhere to be found.
Had to yell for help to get out actually, but to my credit I didn't relieve myself onto the floor, even though at the moment I felt like I had any right to :).
that is not dangerous, that is wunderbar :)
Ahhhrrrgh I am dead 😂😂😂😂@@decnet100
@@decnet100 Respect for holding it !
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In Australia I believe these are for bushfire protection but also helps keep the house cool in summer. Not needed where I live for bushfires but some people have them for insulation ( more efficient to prevent the sun from reaching your windows ) and also for security.
My German in-laws house had these as did both of the properties we rented whist stationed over there in the eighties and nineties. Nice in Summer, as you can open the windows inwards and roll down shutters 90% to let the breeze through and the sunlight out.
We have those in Australia. They are great at shading the windows whilst allowing air flow.
Rolling shutters are super common in France. Mine are just on my upstairs attic windows and they block out the sun when it is beating down. I have classic wooden shutters on the lower level, but I never close them.
Not all German houses have these shutters, but a lot. We only have them on the ground floor and only on the south side because this side needs them for climate control and burglary protection.
And not all electric shutters are centrally controlled. There are often switches next to the window. As shown in the last video, you don't have to close them completely. Ours are only automatically closed at day to 25% if there is too much sun during the day to provide some shade for the rooms behind them.
This is very common, the italian term is "tapparelle"
At the ground level, and sometimes even at higher floors, you can use the metallics ones, for break-in risk reduction (instead of steel bars), and those are usually motorised because they are quite heavy
Normally, all the windows and glass doors have tapparelle (or rolladen) made in plastic (PVC) and are manual, like in the second video, some may use a filling or even aluminum, to make them harder to break
It's so weird when you go abroad and people have some form of curtains or fabric "blinds", very inefficient (you don't get pitch black)
They're called roller shutters. We have them in Australia too. You can close them but let air in through the holes. The last bit of closing is where the shutters close completely (sort of inside each other) and the holes are closed too. Keeps heat, weather and undesirables out.
we were preparing for "The Purge" even befor the Movies ,-)
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calling a 100yr old shutter next lvl is just..... cute XD
My house is from 1974 and of course it has shutters everywhere. I electrified all the shutters in the 1990s and integrated them into my smart home again in the 2010s. My shutters either go up and down at a certain time, or a daylight sensor controls them at sunrise and sunset. Each window also has an individual light sensor, so if the sun shines too much, the respective roller shutter is lowered just enough to prevent the room behind that window from heating up. I also have large panoramic windows in the living room, here the shutters are also controlled by a wind sensor to lower the shutters at a certain wind strength to avoid broken quadruple glazing due to wind pressure. Incidentally, my parents' house was built in 1955 and of course it also has roller shutters, made of wood and operated manually, but roller shutters are quite normal in Germany. If I now tell you that my skylights are closed automatically in the event of rain or wind and that they also have automatic shutters.... 🤣👋🇩🇪🇪🇺 Btw. I can check the status of my roller shutters and skylights worldwide via app on my smartphone and open or close them if necessary, in case I forget. Just like my front door. Is SmartHome actually an issue in the States? I can control the heating and lights for each room individually, my garage door, my solar system on the roof etc. via my home server or via an app anywhere in the world. I'd be really interested to know whether this is on the way to becoming the norm in the States as well as here. Smart home systems are getting cheaper and cheaper here and you can also retrofit older houses, like mine. If you're a bit tech-savvy, it's a great thing, I've retrofitted and installed most of it myself and have also been able to convert the whole thing from external clouds to my own cloud solution. It's fun to be able to walk from the attic to the basement in the dark in the evening and the light switches on seconds before you enter a room and switches off again when you leave, it kind of follows you. well, you have to have a thing for such gadgets.
Impressive. Congrats on all the DIY.
The first roller shutter was registered in Germany in 1854, so it is not new for us in Europe. :) Though it was made of wood for over a century, and gaps were bigger between the slats (as they did not slide into each other just one over the other. The modern plastic and aluminum ones were introduced in the 50's or 60's.
BTW: Wooden ones were made gapless, too. The ones I'm looking at right now are from the 60s, the pieces have a rounded top with the matching indent at the bottom.
In Italy we had them in out house when I was a little kid, and I'm 59 years old.
Today, in the case of automated shutters, single operation is preferred
With a central switch you can open or close all of them, but with the local switch you can open or close a single one independently.
I grew up in a house with Rollläden, and seeing your excitement about them makes me appreciate the small things more. That's why I like your videos. Greetings from Hamburg
6:12 yes you are right. we use them in the summer to prevent heat coming in from the windows. the manual ones in this clip can also easily upgraded with motors that have (random) timers
I have them al over my house more than 25 years. I use them in the summer too keep the sun out and the room cooler, and in the winter it helps to keep the room warmer. They are great for ventilation. Close them halfway, open the window ( turn tilt), great. Greetings from the Netherlands. Love your comparison videos.
3:00 making night in the house hits different when you come back from nightshift 😂❤
We had them fitted to a house we owned in Brisbane Australia when my husband was doing night shifts back in 2001. They block noise as well as the light. We went through countless heavy storms and a cyclone, didn't hear a thing, and no broken windows despite finding debris around the house that indicated branches had hit them during the storms. Our air conditioning running costs reduced drastically in that house because the insulating effect of having the shutters fully down meant that once we either warmed or cooled the house we could turn the aircon off overnight and for several hours through the day. Because of the type of windows we have they can't be fitted at our current home, but I would definitely get them again if we moved to a modern house. Several of my family members and work colleagues invested in them after we spread the word about how good they are,
"Tapparelle" are very common in italy by (al least) 60-70 years. Now are all commonly motorized.
Switzerland here. I grew up in an apartment house built in 1968 and we had those with the straps. There were horizontal gaps between the bars, all connected with small and short chains. They locked together like tongue and groove, no light came in even in the brightest summer
My Aussie house has these for 20 yrs. They are great to keep the heat out. Ours were aluminium with foam inside.
my house have both aluminium roller blinds (for my large bays) and wooden shutters for other windows, but lots of houses are only using roller blinds. Those can be programmed to close/open at a given hour, or you can even open/close them with your phone. You will find roller blinds in about any appartment, as they do not need space outside and are very practical.
Check out Spain🇪🇸 they have heavy duty stuff....
When the "Persianas" is completely shut you reach up and put a 10-ish mm allen key inside a hole above the window🪟(indoors) and nobody can open them from outside.
It is not easy to enter if they have a "vault" style entrance door...
On top of that they usually got a iron bars as a first shell...
the security aspect is secondary, Germans like privacy and most like it totally dark where they are sleeping and it helps with isolation concerning temperature and similar to blinds with blinding sun light, some even dampen noise.
the roller shutters are usually relatively simple and manual but you can get fancy and automated, even on timers or controlled via app.
We have them to in Belgium 😊 they pretty old ... U can also leave them to little open so light gets in but keep the heat from sun out .
These types of barricaded blinds are often used when you leave the house for a while like weeks/months, or during storms etc as they help protect the window glass panes from debris, branches, etc. And of course also discourage any potential intruders just in case :) Can't easily throw a brick through a window when its sealed with metal shutters.
These blinds are not found everywhere in Europe, some places they're more common than others. But if you travel through the continent you'll see them especially in Germany, Italy, France, etc. Less so up north.
Also think about storms or hurricanes. These would be a easier and faster way to protect your windows/Glas instead of thin boards.
You can also switch them remotely with your cellphone, no problem. Or couple them with a wind speed warner device and have them close or open automatically (of course you get a message on your phone) when you´re not home. Has been around for years in Europe.
Guys like you make me appreciate everyday stuff I am used to. :)
Hamburg in winter from 9pm to 8am and still not dark... You need this!!!
"All German houses have this" is a sentence that does not apply to anything a house could have. Whenever I heard someone say that in a video thus far, it was incorrect.
Many houses have this. Many don't. Since this is a bit of a luxury thing (just a bit), expect to find this in more in places with higher rent or single family homes.
If the rent is cheap, you probably won't have this feature. They're also not always automatic. I have never lived in a house with automatic shutters myself.
the centralized control unit is a step up to the "regular" electric ones as well. As this was an older video, the house most likely had KNX or some similar bus system.
It's the norm also in France and they're called "volets roulant". The automated version exist for at least 30 years now but are not that common (It's way more expensive).
Depending on the age of the building there is 3 different control mecanism :
- The crank
- The chain
- The strap (As seen in the video).
In the summer they can help a lot to keep the temperature lower (5°C less than without those) in the house
The automated version also has the drawback that if the electricity goes down you can't open them.
What i really love about all your reactions is your openness to doing things different. You said America feels backwards - well guess what, Germany feels that too in other topics.
What I appreciate is leaving your safe space and your bubble and looking for differences in culture without feeling offended or anything. No one of us lives in a perfect country, but it is very nice to see someone with an open mind like you. Thank you!
I used to live in a 140 year old house in southern Germany and it has "Rolläden" in wood with a option to strech them outside from the window about 20 to 30 inches. It was so cool !!
Oh yes,I remember those in Croatia.I can see few of them even today!
@@pinkzeppelin2386 Yeah, we still have them on old houses....newer ones dont have those anymore. They have a special charm.
Greetings from Croatia, yes we all have Roller shutters (PVC hard plastic, mine have additional thermal filling) on the windows
Rolläden are common in Europe. We have them also (Slovenia)... But we call them rolete. You can make almost pitch dark with them. They can be metal, they can be plasti, motorised or manual. They funcion similar to your garage door, but they roll up in the box above the window. Our house is 50+ years old, we have them from the begginging. Rolläden are quite old contraption. Shops use metal ones for anti break in protection. And the windows are better too. Like three glassed with insulating gas inside, you can opem them fully or just on kip (ventus).
Italian here. I can't sleep without roller shutters (tapparella in Italy) I need pitch black to sleep. The older houses have manual ones, but you can easilly install automatic shutters, is not that expensive. Plus, I didn't see it in this video (I don't know if it's because there is no such a thing in Germany or simply it's not shown), but the window shutters, once closed or partially closed, can be "opened". I try to explain: once closed, half of the roller shutter can be pushed outwards using a sort of lever located in the lower central part of the frame which creates a sort of 90° angle and the shutter gradually moves further away from the window creating a sort of awning very usefull in summer because it allows air to circulate still creating a shadow
They are made out of aluminum, in any color you need. Some cheap one are made out of plastic as well. Most of them are manual (you need manually pull them up or down), but for last decade most are electric or fully automatic.
In EU above 90% houses or flats have these. They help with light, but mostly with heat of the sun in summer or really cold weather in winter, and they are a must in storms (they really protect your windows from small objects in storms)
Also now most of them come with separate insect blinds, between blind and windows...
This is pretty much basic standard of windows in Poland, maybe not from metal but made some sort of plastic/composite ones (i am refering to individual houses). Metal ones will be more of securing to some special place or some shops. In houses there is little metal ones, typicall plastic . You can make it automated - one button to rule them all (or even separate on/off switch near each window, or order manual ones - you will have to close /open each by yourself). You can also order mosquito neto between glass and those shutters.
I like how you turned Rolläden into Rolladen - or closer to Rouladen. You basically pronounced Rolläden as meat-and cabbage rolls. 😅
You actually spell them with three L's: Rollläden (because it's a compound "Roll - Laden"). One of those quirky compounds with three of the same consonants in a row, thanks to the last spelling-reform in 1996.
Rollladen is singular and Rollläden is plural by the way.
Very common here in Western Australia. I don't have them but they are as close as next door. Blocking light, direct sun, noise, fire, windblown and vandal thrown objects, and burglars are some some great advantages to make these worthwhile.
In Switzerland, we already had these roller shutters in the 70s
I love it when you get totally mind blown by regular things. 😂
Helps in windy time, like hurricanes too :-)
"Second skin" makes it cooler in summer, warmer in winter, no wind.
Window open: jalousie with the tiny holes, some air comes in, but no people.
We have them since a long time, like 50 - 60 years or so.
Longer than that. I'm 50 this year and the flat I grew up in already had old ones when I was born. Not automated, but still the same principle.
Shshshshsh! Don't tell them all our top secrets!🤣
Pretty much every house in EU has this.. and newer ones are automated. These can be PVC, aluminum....
West EU, in central and eastern countries they are not needed for now.
Definitely not nearly every house in the EU.
Wish we had these in Finland. First time I ever saw them was In France 🇫🇷
I Live in Spain. I have that thing in all the Windows of my House. Some are motorized (operated by electric motors), some are manual (operated by hand)
@@malkontentniepoprawny6885What do you mean with they are not needed? They are just there to keep the light out.
Nobody installs them for safety.
Never have seen them in a way where one button can close the entire house, that's definitely unusual. The manual ones are usual, but if there is a big window, the automatic one is usual, because big ones can become quite heavy to pull. My grandparents used them in hot summers to cool down their home, keeping the shutters closed during the day in summer. Of course it was dark, but so nice to be in the insulated cool house with no air condition.
German here. My son will be 32 in a few days. And I know that my parents had fully electronically controlled roller shutters on the two floors of their house, years before he was born.
In Germany, roller shutters are standard on every German tilt and turn window and French doors.
10:30 This "two stage" operation is an artifact of the overall construction... Usually they are made of pieces as wide as the area they need to cover, but cut every few centimeters/inches, then they are re-joined to a sort of chain which can be rolled up easily and is hold together by tiny pieces in between the runs... So they come down like a extremely wide chain from a roll and then settle down to a solid and well interconnected barrier. ;)
In the last video he explains how you can exploit that quirk to just let in a little bit of light and air while the window or door is well covered against any intruder. ;)
Every household in Serbia has some version of these. I just replaced my old wooden ones with PVC ones, the manual version which is the most common. Practically every apartment built from the 60s onwards comes with them already installed. And they are definitely not there for safety reasons but to keep the light and summer heat out
In spain they are persianas, we all have that, the manual ones
My family had this kind of system in new build home too in 1997, it also has a remote control. You can also choose to lower them down and up for each individual window/door.
Not living in Germany but also in Europe.
But I remember we already had these window/door shutters when when I was a very young kid in the early '70 when we livng in France, Italy, Switzerland, Spain and in Israel too. But at the time they were operated manually and individually.
i also remember in end '70 or early '80 maybe, when my grandparents were older they moved from their home to an appartment, they had this same kind off system to open and close to entry and exit (but much larger doors ofc) for their parking garage underneat the entire appartment building. We knew their was a sensor below the floor near the exit door, so if a car drove over it the exit door would open automaticly. As kids we were playing around there and discovered that if my sibling and myself together with our nephew and niece would all jump on the sensor it a the same time , we could open the roller door too and then we ran around the building to ring the doorbell of our grandparents. Childish good old times.
Pretty common in any European country.
Except U.K. and Republic of Ireland.
Not in Poland. But I'm going to buy some in Germany next year.
@@bognagruba7653 as a native Pole - they are. you'll usually find them mostly installed in houses, since night-day blinds are a more popular choice as of now, but people often install them in apartments as well.
@@bognagruba7653 They are really common in Poland. Both new and old houses have them.
Thank you for looking over 😉
Mine are white and manual (each window), protect for heat trough the day and at night i need no curtains .
hahaha we have rolladen in front of our windows and we have them on our plates on sunndays every now and then
The edible ones are called roulades and are delicious.
I make these a few times a year for birthdays and Christmas and New Years.
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He gets it from an Angus cattle breeder, it's great meat.❤️👋🏻👍🏻
@@melliW1 pssst i tried to have a bit of fun i know there name but my little brother and me allways had fun with calling them rolladen when we where at our grandmothers house as kids
The manual variant is established tech since 100 years
Nowadays you can control these systems from anywhere using an app (+ Siri or Alexa), some even have a small solar panel installed, can be combined with smoke detectors, weather sensors, etc.
This means you can control each window separately, keep out heat in the summer or make burglary more difficult and yes, in the winter it also helps to keep the heat in the house. And in the event of a fire, the combination with the smoke detector would ensure that at least one exit, if not all, of the window shutters are opened automatically.
About 30 years ago, roller shutters were more of a thing in the south of Germany, but now many more houses in the north are also being equipped with them and newer rental apartments often have roller shutters at least on the ground floor.
Rollläden are not primarily for security, especially 15 years ago, but to keep the warmth in or out, depending on the season. Like passive climate control.
this is not for security reasons, this is just to sleep in darkness, even at day time. good to have when you work on shifts. My friend has it in 3rd floor apartment building in Poland
9:40 These roller shutters are called “minis” and in this example they are attached from the outside. Because it works well with minis because the box is smaller. From the outside everything is a mirror image. Now when you look at it from the outside, you actually see the inside. but it's cheap to retrofit.
My parents had these installed on the house in 1978 or so (In The Netherlands).
Edit: I checked that house on Google maps. The "rolluiken" (=Dutch name for it) have been removed, but the neighbors house now have em (in a different color).
This is a standard in European homes for a century at least. In 20th century they were not motorized and were mostly woodden and plastic but the principle was the same.
In Belgium we have roller shutters too in a lot of houses (in flemish we call them rolluiken - rol= roll, luik= shutter). In older houses they are still made from wood, in newer houses in pvc or sometimes aluminium. It is wonderful in summer to keep the sun and warmth out. My bedroom is westfacing and it is amazing in summer that I can have total darkness to sleep till the moment I get up.
Most in Belgium are manual with a strap but you can have a motor installed on manual ones.
What you see at the end when it goes fully dark is the slats no longer hanging from each other but resting on top of each other, coming closer together. They're made of hollow plastic or aluminum filled with dense insulation foam. This helps both with temperature and noise control. the house goes not only dar but quiet too
I had them since 1970... manual at first, automatic since around 2000 when me and my husband brought our appartement.
They really let you sleep well eben during a sunny day... keep Windows protected when there's a storm or alike... plastic ones are good, aluminium ones are really protective.
If rolled down half - on a super-hot day it keeps the heat outside pretty well (when closing the window early in the morning) while still having enough light
I am quite mind-blown myself, bc I was born in 1983 in Germany and roller shutters have always been there. Basically every house has them. And the houses that don't have them are either VERY old or are built intentionally without them for style or (I guess) to be a bit more affordable like student flats.
They used to be very common in Belgium, but they got out of fashion the 2000s, as architecture styles for housing became less traditional.
The white shutters look nice when they are new.
It's difficult to clean them because you have to work from the outside. This sometimes works on the ground floor, but it doesn't work on higher floors. There are particles of exhaust gases, especially near roads, that are difficult or impossible to remove. I would therefore also choose metal or wood as a material.
...well the principal of shutters is very old and very common over whole Europe.
- If it's hot during the day half closed keeps the rooms cooler
- If it's cold during winter nights you get an additional layer of insulation with non moving air
- Privacy well the neighbors are much closer maybe just the length of a car.
- a little bit of additional protection against smashing the glass.
Works like a segment door on the garage, simply smaller segments on a roll...
Marktlücke, ich wander in die USA aus und verbaue dort Rolläden. Ich werde Milliardär.😉👌
In Deutschland sind die Dinger Standard, aber auch oft sehr anfällig, sie gehen gerne kaputt aber dennoch sind sie cool.
They are standard all over europe they are almost like thin pieces of wood/plastic/metal that stack on each other the holes are used if u want a bit of light and if u wanna go full bravo 6 mode u close them all the way. they also keep the heat in houses, get rid of drafts(if window frames are made out of wood) and also protect from harsh weather like heavy rain and ice scince they are cheaper to replace than glass. Also good for privacy . They are rolled inside box above windows and u unroll them(think fancy garadge doors) most are manual and u have a strap nextto the window that u would pull up/down
The two phase effect is basically a very simple thing..
When the slats are hinging down you see the perforated strip that is connecting them which lets a bit of light through. As soon as the bottom slat reaches the bottom of the window, lowering the slats further they become stacked instead of hanging which hides the connecting strip inside the slats. Because stacking goes from bottom to top it looks like asecondary effect going up.
We have this also, my parents-in-law and also my parents at their houses and that for years. when we buy the house ours were manual with crank to move them up and down but we installed electric motors to move them by RC controllers. Especially in summer evenings they are very practical if the sun is really low and shine inside the house and the eyes you can lower them. The help to keep the noise outside and the heat inside in the winter.
the best thing is we have some systems in germany to upgrading every old window with an "Rolladen", but you have after this a small box on the top of each window outside. For manual realease you need only a small hole in the wall for the belt, the electrical version need a drilled hole for the cable and a power supply.
Thats the reason we dont think about Zombie Invasion in Germany. Just close your Rollladen and easy xD