How often do you use your roller shutters?

No idea why they are so hyped, but all houses with those things around us rattle annoyingly.

1. Ours don’t rattle – neither in the east nor in the south nor in the west. And in the north, nothing can rattle because there are none there.

2. Venetian blinds are the ideal combination of thermal protection and "You can look outside" and "No one can look in." Roller shutters and pleated blinds just can’t achieve that.

3. Venetian blinds – hype, hype, hooray!

We use them daily as well. Electrically, it’s just a switch press.

No idea why they are so hyped, but all the houses around us with those things clatter annoyingly.

The practical thing about it is that you can keep them half open. The sun stays outside and it’s still reasonably bright. But for me, it wasn’t worth it; in a single-family house you have the luxury of 4 exterior walls and can get light through a second window.

Well, above the windows you probably have a fairly large box for the roller shutters. The box has worse insulation values than a good wall or good glass.
The glass surface on the window also insulates better than the frame.

I think our solution is quite clever. The windows have a raised profile; in front of it, flush with the outer wall, is the roller shutter which is plastered over. Inside, this profile is also insulated and plastered over.

Ours don't rattle

Then it might be due to your quality.

The practical thing about them is that you can set them half-open.

Regarding the noise: when I stand on the terrace in the evening and hear these things, I can't rate them as good. What I hear, the residents must hear too
… it may be that residents are more tolerant of the noises.
We have simple roller shutters: yes, they would be opaque. But as already said; we no longer use them for insulation or privacy. And as sun protection: only during the day when we are _not_ there… when we are there, we also enjoy the sunlight coming in. As evening leisure people, you just don't keep the sun away :)

My parents-in-law have neighbors like that, we call them "the vampires."
As soon as a ray of sunshine breaks through the clouds, the shutters go down...

Of course, you can do that... but do you really want to sit in the living room in dim light during summer?

Well, definitely not us. I wouldn’t even think of using the shutters for shading. In summer, the large windows to the garden are open as soon as possible.

We also use the shutters every night. In the open-plan room, they are closed when we go to bed because I don’t want to look at the shutters before that. In other rooms, sometimes already at dusk. In the morning, I raise them all when I get up.
During the day, I only sometimes partially lower one of the shutters at the dining area in autumn/winter when the sun is so low that it blinds me on the laptop.

Houses with those things rattling around us are annoyingly nerve-wracking.

Hmm, then your residential area is from before 2000?
Rattling venetian blinds no longer exist, or do they?
The current ones are guided on rails on the left and right.

Venetian blinds in the south, for me a must. In summer you have to provide shading (it makes the difference between 25°C and 29°C in midsummer).
Blinds down and I feel like I'm locked in. Venetian blinds down and I have shade and can still see wonderfully outside.

Also interesting how everyone writes "I don't need blinds," but in the vote everyone uses blinds. I do, by the way. Daily.

Hmm, then is your residential area from before 2000?
Kapper blinds no longer exist nowadays, or do they?
The current ones are guided by rails on the left and right.

That only has something to do with the price.
There are both. It also makes a difference whether the slats still have a rubber lip.

Blinds in the South, for me a must. You have to shade in summer (makes the difference between 25°C and 29°C in midsummer).
Roller blinds down and I feel like I'm trapped. Blinds down and I have shade and can still see wonderfully outside.

In the South it is not as important as East and West. In the South the sun is so high in summer that an eave is enough for shading.
If eaves have been omitted, it naturally looks different. ;)
From East and West the sun shines flat and therefore much more comes in.