Old school, they said?
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So I have done restoration and construction of period joinery. In the UK they call it listed heritage buildings. They normally have something the government feel is worth maintaining, usually at the expense of homeowners.
So I was asked to submit a drawing for approval on a window that I can’t open and has rotten really badly making accurate measurements impossible. So many layers of hundreds of years of poorly applied gloss paint make the profile unrecognisable however a crosscut would reveal the timber from the paint. Since I can’t open the window and don’t know thick the glass is I can’t work out the dimensions of the stock for a workshop rod.
It’s weird because I’m can only receive permission to work on it once I submit a drawing but I can’t guarantee what I produce will be the same as the drawing which is guess work because by law I have to reproduce the window perfectly! Politics in construction, madness!
Anybody experienced **** like this?
No, no experience with that sort of thing. But good for you for trying to do some good restoration work, even if the government makes it a pain in the …