Hi
Thanks for looking...cowboy builder replaced my double glazing window a year ago, since then the 1st floor and ground floor windows have stopped closing a cracks appeared in one corner of the 1st floor bay window...builders long gone
To top it off the owner of the flat above has just told me the floor area just around the 1st floor bay window has risen by an inch the remaining floor in the room is fine, find this strange my 1st thought would have been the floor around the bay window would have dropped with the bay..also the windows on the ground floor seems to be bowing in the middle ive attached a pic
suspect the bay window load bearing posts arent up to the job, Does the below sound like a plan.
The bay window seems to be single brick, and the floor joints run into the the bay window.
1) Support the window with strongboys acrow props.
2)remove the middle section of the bay window
3) jack up the original bay window wooden lintel using 2 bottle jacks.
4) Fit a decent set of bay window load bearing corner post...someones suggested using scaffold posts cut to size welded with a base plate to spread the load.
Any Advice would be great.
Thanks Again
hi sorry finding it hard to add pic ive got them in my album
Thanks for looking...cowboy builder replaced my double glazing window a year ago, since then the 1st floor and ground floor windows have stopped closing a cracks appeared in one corner of the 1st floor bay window...builders long gone
To top it off the owner of the flat above has just told me the floor area just around the 1st floor bay window has risen by an inch the remaining floor in the room is fine, find this strange my 1st thought would have been the floor around the bay window would have dropped with the bay..also the windows on the ground floor seems to be bowing in the middle ive attached a pic
suspect the bay window load bearing posts arent up to the job, Does the below sound like a plan.
The bay window seems to be single brick, and the floor joints run into the the bay window.
1) Support the window with strongboys acrow props.
2)remove the middle section of the bay window
3) jack up the original bay window wooden lintel using 2 bottle jacks.
4) Fit a decent set of bay window load bearing corner post...someones suggested using scaffold posts cut to size welded with a base plate to spread the load.
Any Advice would be great.
Thanks Again
hi sorry finding it hard to add pic ive got them in my album