New Door opening

[Robinh]

Hi, I need to move a kitchen door in a supporting wall only about 1.5 metres. I will be fitting a lintel but obviously if I only fit a lintel to support the new door area it only leaves a relatively narrow column of bricks for supporting the lintel adjacent to the existing door. Do I need to fit a lintel that spans both the old and the new door. i.e.what are the regs for supporting a lintel on an existing brick column.

Thanks for any advice

 

[noseall]

in instances similar to yours we prop the wall and remove the vulnerable bit of masonry that is sandwiched between new and old openings.

we then re-build the wall forming the new opening as well as blocking off the old, all in one hit.

 

[Robinh]

Thanks for that noseall. It sounds so obvious when you say it like that and it will mke a better job of it.

cheers Robin

 

[noseall]

it is interesting that an architect for example, would show one being bricked up and the other being opened up (busted out!), all with neat lines and no consideration for the fact that the bit left in between is left rather vulnerable and weak.

we always interpret it as 'prop it, blitz the lot out and build new'.