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You might be surprised what people were willing to do to preserve the illusion of an old home.
I too prefer drafty homes that you need to pay out the nose to heat or cool…
Living in the past ignoring modern convenience's isn’t a thing to parade around… there’s a reason dedicated heritage sites aren’t just handed out, it requires proper contractors, you can’t do that stuff yourself.
Where are you getting your information from? You’re arguing with a red seal carpenter of a couple decades who has worked from modern homes to actual heritage sites where you need to mill down a hand made door to be an EXACT as you can replica.
Keeping with the old times isn’t something that’s done unless you got money to burn, or are quite frankly a fool.
Im getting my information from my own experience as I have repeatedly stated. I don’t appreciate the suggestion that I don’t know what I am talking about because my experience differs from yours. Your apparent qualifications don’t make you an expert in other’s lives.
You might be surprised what wealthy people are willing to spend money on.
A fool and their money is soon departed…
I’ve done those jobs, but going back to your original claim, a window isn’t a single person job, and a door can be. So yes a wealthy person would spend a lot of money to have MULTIPLE install an incredibly inefficient modern window that’s wood, just for looks. But they also know they’ll likely be fixing them every 5 years. Fools and their money make me more money.
If I hired a contractor to install windows on any house and they showed up themselves I’d send them packing, but not a door installer.
But those people are the edge cases, you can’t talk generically about something like they are gospel, that’s just foolish and will be called out.
Again having done this IRL it is possible to do a wooden framed window by yourself. It isn’t advisable but it can be done.
What does wood have to do with it?
You can also do any other frame material as well.
Is this what your point was? That wood alone could be done by yourself…?
Because this all started talking about how some windows are still framed in wood. A single person can in fact carry everything to construct a wooden window without the assistance of a crane or forklift.
My point initially was with older wooden homes, like you find in America particularly on the East Coast where I worked, you can do windows by yourself but it is harder to frame and hang doors from scratch by yourself.