I'm about half way through this episode (and there are several others you'll find at the link) and it's fascinating.
First off, the 21st century people still don't understand just how different and difficult life was nearly 200 years ago. They are only going to be spending 24 hours there, which most of us could do standing on our heads. Make it a month, or even a week, and it would be a very different story.
The 1900 House and others of that ilk were incredibly good, in no small part because the people involved spent much more time inhabiting the earlier era.
Not quite the same thing, but I keep on wanting to write a time travel story in which someone from 2020 goes back to about 1980 and spends the rest of the story pissing and moaning about no internet, no smart phone, and the like. Even for someone like me (born 1948) although I grew up before any such things, I'm as used to them as a current 10 year old. I would HATE it if I didn't have even a basic cell phone, let alone the internet. Heck, even a computer before the internet was amazing.
Back to the point of this post. These people are given relatively short shifts to work. Back then 12 hours or more straight would have been the norm. We modern people have no real clue how much physical labor was involved in most work back then.
I can suggest reading Farmer Boy by Laura Ingalls Wilder, a somewhat fictionalized account of her husband, Almanzo Wilder's childhood. Pay attention to the food, especially the breakfasts. Everyone got up very early. The men and boys did serious chores while the women cooked. After a couple of hours they consumed an amount of food that most of us cannot even imagine. And they needed it because of the very physical work they were doing.
I am very grateful I live in this era, and I'm the beneficiary of all of the advances that have brought us here.
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