I find it totally crazy how many people here would upgrade to electric roller shutters.
We didn’t have any roller shutters at all in our rental apartment and in our rental house.
We simply see having roller shutters as a big step forward. In our new development, half of the people I know don’t have electric roller shutters, and 2 families even have shutters only on selected windows.
Outside our new development area, some houses were also built with radiators. There was no option to upgrade to underfloor heating there either.
And those are good, new houses. Most of the people in older houses also live without underfloor heating.
For me, all of this is no longer standard but upscale.
Apart from that, we think underfloor heating is a step backwards. Before, a room could be warmed up quickly and cool nicely again in the evening. Now we have to use electric heater fans to get it warm fast.
Also, before we used to sit so nicely warm on the sofa by the radiator and dry/warm clothes on it. That’s no longer possible either.
We thought long about getting an electric roller shutter, but now it’s only on the large window on the ground floor.
And that’s driving me crazy.
If my wife opens it in the morning, I’m awake upstairs. So now my wife has to sit in the dark until she has to leave the house.
You can open manual roller shutters much more quietly if you are careful.
But that probably depends a lot on how many roller shutters you actually close. We hardly use the shutters at all; we prefer to look outside.