Plastic windows vs. wooden windows

I also prefer plastic windows there. With textured foil coating, they also look quite good visually and cannot be distinguished from wood from a slight distance.

Well, the profile width alone usually already reveals that it is not wood . We also ordered it embossed on the outside, but not because it would then be unmistakably wood, rather because we thought it looked quite nice that way.

That was the case with us as well. And the advantage is that small scratches are not immediately noticeable like on smooth plastic surfaces. Anyone with a bit of knowledge can always tell that it is not wood. Even if it's due to the profile width...

The scratches were also the argument for us.

I mentioned it because of the tread width, since you said that from a distance you can hardly/cannot tell the difference – and you can see it once you know the difference.

But I think that 98% of people don’t even walk through the house and think/say "Oh, plastic windows? Terrible..."

But I think that 98% of people don’t even remotely go through the house and think/say "Oh, plastic windows? Terrible..."

Oh, I recently experienced that when I was working on the flower beds in the front yard, two passersby were talking about our house and literally said "That looks like shit!".
They didn’t care at all that I was standing 3 meters away.
But I can live with that, not everyone can have taste.

I haven’t said anything about Meranti and Co either, FSC doesn’t exist anyway, except on paper (I come from the wood sector). Good coatings are based on oil (sunflower oil); I would never slap anything else on wood, but for that, you have to go to a specialist store, not the hardware store...

If you have ever installed different glazing in an old building into a heavily profiled wooden window where the panes had different thicknesses, you will quickly notice the advantage of wooden windows if the carpenter can sand the sash to the new size accordingly...try that with a plastic sash. Although the plastic sash is probably at the end of its lifespan anyway... We did this at my sister-in-law’s house with windows made of local oak, about 60 years old as far as I know...through modernization, new window panes were installed, which fit into the existing sashes through the adjustment work (the pane was correspondingly thicker than a 40-year-old pane).