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WCDT strips 3951-3955 (4th to 8th March 2019)
Geographus:
--- Quote from: Case on 08 Mar 2019, 04:44 ---They shutters are rolled onto a spindle in a cavity above the window on the inside of the romm, so you may have to cut through wallpaper if you want to open the access-hatch.
But they're rather robust - my parents' place was built in 1976 and some of the original ones are still in.
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Servicing them is something you usually do when you refurbish your home and replace the wallpapers anyway.
The mechanism inside is really robust and cleaning is usually only necessary for the parts that are exposed to
the weather so you can access them from the outside anyway.
cybersmurf:
I do have roller blinds in my apartment building, which was built mid-60s. My parents have them, too, and I had to help my dad replace some of the individual parts (apparently there's the "I'll live long enough to be repaired/replaced during general renovation" and the "yeah, bits ajd pieces will fail every now and then" variants).
Older buildings have a set of blinds that operate like windows being closed on the outside, bur are made of solid wood instead of glass, or just some heavy curtains.
But as Case said: roller blinds go inside the walls, so retrofitting is really hard, and quite messy (at least for brick walls).
Zebediah:
I’ve seen blinds like this in Spain. Never seen them in the US though. So yeah, heavy dark curtains are the way for Brun to go. That’s what I have on my own bedroom windows.
Is it cold in here?:
Aren't those common in Switzerland too?
Case:
--- Quote from: Is it cold in here? on 08 Mar 2019, 09:46 ---Aren't those common in Switzerland too?
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The Swiss probably invented them ... 8-)
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