Our windows, being sensibly European, open inwards so we don't need window-cleaners, ladders or poles. Why on earth UK ones don't is beyond me. Jesus wept, in old UK houses with shutters the things are on the inside. Where's the sense in that?
I expect that in the increasingly unlikely event of ever a) owning a house and b) being able to afford replacement windows for it, I will have frustrating dialogue with a several of window suppliers, to the effect that nobody makes sensible European ones with external shutters, and even if they did, fitting them would require special planning permission and/or immediately make the house uninsurable because of some spurious not-invented-here safety issue. Bonus points if investigations into the practicality of importing such things from
ABROAD, where the sensible
FOREIGNS come from, conclude that it would be cheaper and easier to install and run air conditioning.
The problem with One of the many problems with
BRITONS is that for the 50 weeks a year that they aren't going round saying "
it's not the heat, it's the humidity", they completely forget that Summer is a thing.