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Jesus, leave @chrisbmx116 alone!
Jesus, leave @chrisbmx116 alone!
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Kinda anything that’s made in Germany or Austria for the European market. Go there, use any window of any age in any building, then try a 1 year old Velfac and tell me I’m wrong.
Velfac are all crunchy, graunching and squealing in operation with bendy handles, weedy seals and daft fragile locks. And that’s before you try one of their horrifically clunky, wobbly sliding door systems. You need two hands to open them. It’s madness.
I guess with thin frames there’s just not enough space to fit nice hinges, catches and seals in, for me that’s not worth a lifetime of sadness every time I open a window or door.
Velfac are the Foffa of windows. They look cool to an average shopper from a distance and that’s where it ends.