A lion is literally eating ass in this one, should probably qualify.
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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…?
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.
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.
If you’re installing old stuff like that, you’re throwing money away… a modern window will pay for itself in a matter of years.
It’s not saving money… freaking lol.
And modern to ancient, nothing changes, windows still aren’t a solo job, while doors can and are…. Yes you can install a window by yourself, but it’s not the correct way to do it, it takes half a second and the window tips and cracks. You mind as well buy a second while you’re there. Anything is possible, that doesn’t mean that it’s not being an absolute fool to do so.
You mean lath and plaster? They still use that? I mean installing drywall panels and taping the joints and skim coating. But yeah plastering is more like concrete finishing, an art, and definitely left to the professionals.
Would rather place and finish concrete over mudding and taping though, better on my hands.
I worked as a Carpenter for a GC (employed, not contractor), so it was always a fine line between keeping us busy and being efficient by using the right specializations. Yeah I can do some drywall taping and mudding, but god if we aren’t busy, please sub that crap out, it’ll look better anyways. But I’ll also take the 3 days of pay instead.
Unless the building is a registered heritage site, they aren’t going to put the same type of windows back in, they would modernize it, the cost savings on the insulation alone would recoup the cost in less than 10 years.
these homes were built without cranes how do you think they got windows to begin with?
With a crew of 6-12 guys… not by themselves lol.
Huge bay windows were popular decades ago, but now we know how incredibly inefficient they are, so they use smaller panes and make a design.
And no, wood frames aren’t used in the us, they rot, almost exclusively vinyl or metal, and if wood, it’s metal clad wood…. Wood expands with the tempature and moisture, cracks windows like nobody’s business. There’s a reason why they haven’t been used for a couple decades now.
I’ve installed hundreds of frames and hung accompanying doors by myself.
And it’s funny you mention windows by yourself, that’s the one task that actually requires more than one person because of their size… even if you use a crane, there’s a second person for the crane. You also need someone inside to wedge and shim it, while it’s attached from outside, it’s not secured from the inside.
I had to do one with just hand tools. No power tools allowed on site, and dragging the door inside outside was a 15 minute ordeal each way. And had to do the frame by hand anyways…
So hand cranked hand auger for the lockset, and a chisel and hammer for the hinge gains. Took me a whole damn day to do that one door.
No… you cannot… the hinges don’t work that way, you would have to re router them.
And at that point, you would just buy a regular old door kit and do it yourself….
Guys I found the idiot.
Door frames don’t have “a bottom”, and the handle not being nearer to the top than the bottom. If they flipped the door and frame, the handle/lockset would be about 20” higher up the door. And as also stated, the hinges don’t work that way either.
Looks like a keg tap handle….
I don’t assume anything, somethings not working it’s never going to get fixed unless you inform someone.
LinkedIn in cancer, but that doesn’t change due process lmfao. That’s why I changed it to generic boilerplate, but clearly that went right your head since you just want to complain about LinkedIn.
Also, nice alt, you upvoted this in 5 seconds.
Who the fuck calls LinkedIn to check on the status of a social media post?
Hey X company, your Y system isn’t working correctly, I didn’t get my Z.
Somethings not working, how would they know if you DON’T contact them….? It’s not just for the update, it’s also to inform them their systems are not working correctly lmfao.
For what it’s worth, this would be intentional. They would have had to buy a blank door panel and make the lockset holes and hinge gains themselves. The handle holes aren’t center in the door, and the hinges aren’t equidistance either.
So not an idiot, and at least a little handy if they didn’t just pay someone to intentionally do this as well. Most people would just buy prehung doors, especially the front.
I mean would you rather not get an email and worry that they forgot or there was a glitch? This small update is just updating you that there’s no responses. I imagine they also spend a decent amount of resources when people call and they just tell you what would have been in this email.
It only records your audio unless you are both consenting members… so no, not illegal at all.