Talk:Casement window

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Disputed section

The article asserts:

In the UK, casement windows were the most common house window before the sash window was introduced.

That can't be true; the most common at first were small un-glazed windows (i.e. holes) with a piece of thin cloth across. The first glazed windows were not opening, they were fixed, and were universal. As the article doesn't cite a reference for this extraordinary claim, I can't validate it myself; can anyone else help? Afterbrunel (talk) 11:52, 22 June 2014 (UTC)[reply]

It doesn't say anything about "first". I read that sentence as referring to recent times, to the state of affairs just before the introduction of the sash window. I know nothing specifically about the history of windows, but if that is agreed on, then the best solution, ISTM, would be rewriting the sentence to clarify it. --Thnidu (talk) 17:42, 2 July 2014 (UTC)[reply]

That casement windows where the most common in the UK before sash windows arrived is well established. I've just added a reference link to support that statement, and have therefor also removed the "Disputed section" template that Afterbrunel had added to the page in 2014.Thomas Blomberg (talk) 16:51, 5 July 2015 (UTC)[reply]