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Hi all,
I have an upstairs doorway into an extension with a door that is too short. I think it was originally a window in what was an external wall but when they turned it into a doorway they left the lintel alone and cut a couple of inches off the bottom of the door instead.
I'm just starting refurbing my upstairs bathroom which involves a lot of disruption in the area and this has always irritated me so I want to fix it at the same time.
I began stripping the wall back to see what I'm dealing with:
It's a single leaf of block (outer leaf was removed when building the extension I guess) with a 100 x 50 wallplate on the top. Concrete lintel 100 x 165. That stud wall is coming out and getting moved slightly to rejig the bathroom size/shape a bit hence wanting to do this now.
Basically I just need a couple of inches more under the lintel for a standard height door.
So what's my best option here?
1 - Cut this 165-ish deep concrete lintel and replace with a (e.g.) 100 x 100 lintel, pushed right up into the original slot and packed underneath.
2 - Cut this lintel out, then remove a couple of inches from the bottom of the blocks above (the lintel already appears to be inset into them by an inch or so) and re set the lintel higher.
3 - Remove the blocks above entirely and put the lintel directly under the wallplate.
For extra context:
The wallplate supports ceiling joists and, in theory, rafters. However where the roof has been modified for the extension, the rafters over the doorway (the 2 nearest the camera) don't really have anything on them any more.
Thanks all!
I have an upstairs doorway into an extension with a door that is too short. I think it was originally a window in what was an external wall but when they turned it into a doorway they left the lintel alone and cut a couple of inches off the bottom of the door instead.
I'm just starting refurbing my upstairs bathroom which involves a lot of disruption in the area and this has always irritated me so I want to fix it at the same time.
I began stripping the wall back to see what I'm dealing with:
It's a single leaf of block (outer leaf was removed when building the extension I guess) with a 100 x 50 wallplate on the top. Concrete lintel 100 x 165. That stud wall is coming out and getting moved slightly to rejig the bathroom size/shape a bit hence wanting to do this now.
Basically I just need a couple of inches more under the lintel for a standard height door.
So what's my best option here?
1 - Cut this 165-ish deep concrete lintel and replace with a (e.g.) 100 x 100 lintel, pushed right up into the original slot and packed underneath.
2 - Cut this lintel out, then remove a couple of inches from the bottom of the blocks above (the lintel already appears to be inset into them by an inch or so) and re set the lintel higher.
3 - Remove the blocks above entirely and put the lintel directly under the wallplate.
For extra context:
The wallplate supports ceiling joists and, in theory, rafters. However where the roof has been modified for the extension, the rafters over the doorway (the 2 nearest the camera) don't really have anything on them any more.
Thanks all!