Hi everyone. On here for some advice. I'm taking down my brick garden shed. Across the garage door opening there is a concrete (possibly steel inside) almost 6 metres wide lintel spanning the entire opening and resting on two piers.
We're struggling to find the safest and best way to remove the lintel without risking the rest of the walls on the sides of the garage collapsing, and ultimately knocking down both next door neighbours fences and sheds.
I went to the hire company today, with the idea of hiring two beam lifters which will support the beam as we remove the piers, and supporting the beam as we remove brick by brick and therefore slowly lowering the lintel down. However the hire company think this wouldn't work due to the weight limit of each beam lift only supporting max 600kg each, and feel it could break the beam lifter and would be too difficult to lower each side of the lintel down equally.
Does anyone have any ideas how they would go about removing the lintel?
We're struggling to find the safest and best way to remove the lintel without risking the rest of the walls on the sides of the garage collapsing, and ultimately knocking down both next door neighbours fences and sheds.
I went to the hire company today, with the idea of hiring two beam lifters which will support the beam as we remove the piers, and supporting the beam as we remove brick by brick and therefore slowly lowering the lintel down. However the hire company think this wouldn't work due to the weight limit of each beam lift only supporting max 600kg each, and feel it could break the beam lifter and would be too difficult to lower each side of the lintel down equally.
Does anyone have any ideas how they would go about removing the lintel?