Custom window retrofit made easy

Q: When my house was built in 1978, the windows were bricked in -- that is to say, the windows overlap the brick by one-half inch. Now I would like to update them.

My old windows will have to be removed from inside the house. My contractor wants to put the new ones on the brick and not in the original openings. He says that is how the windows should have been installed in the first place.

I'm not sure about this. Why can't new windows be made and installed from inside the house?

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