Why do we board up the windows of abandoned or currently renovating buildings instead of leaving the glass?

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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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Anonymous 0 Comments

The real reason, the real fucking reason is so no inspectors can see what is going on in there and you can just tell them you moved some booths around

Anonymous 0 Comments

Is this a US thing? I’ve never seen this in Europe.

Anonymous 0 Comments

In addition what was said above there’s also a window tax that some cities have and that’s why some windows are bricked up.

Anonymous 0 Comments

Because people break in and throw stones. It’s some fairly basic human nature to destroy things.