A small apartment building near my house is being renovated and they’ve removed all the windows and doors and covered them with plywood. Presumably there wasn’t a problem with EVERY window, so why take them all out and board them up? I imagine they were intending to replace them, but why take them out as the very first step in the reno?
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The windows are removed and boarded up coz it’s much simpler in the building schedule to do all the teardowns in one lot from the crew that does all that, get them off site and get the various installation crews in.
If you’ve ever worked with contractors, you’ll know that they will absolutely never do anything more than what’s said exactly on the contract. That means you should, at all times, keep the necessary number of people on site to the minimum and keep them separated if possible. That makes it easier for everyone to manage risk and responsibility coz whatever happens, you can just tell the site supervisor “it was good when we were done here, you were here and we sent you guys photos”.
For the situation with old windows being left in, the story would probably be that they would be broken by just about anyone, could be scaffolding, joinery, electricians etc. And when that happens it becomes a responsibility of who’s cleaning up or who’s fault it is. Then whoever was unlucky enough to have broken the window would shift the blame on the main contractor for leaving the windows in, which tbh it IS their fault for being cheap pricks if they didn’t do the appropriate temporary/removal works to get the site ready for installation.
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