Dividing a window

[jonnyg2k6]

Are you permitted to divide one large bedroom window into two smaller windows with a brick pillar between the two?

 

[paulf1976]

Do you mean planning or building regs?

 

[jonnyg2k6]

planning I mean. BR would be involved as it's a window.

 

[freddiemercurystwin]

Planning not required unless in a Conservation Area or the building is listed or other oddity.

 

[jonnyg2k6]

Thanks for your quick reply. Thats sorts the bedroom window out. Can you advise on these other two situations:

1. 1x large Lounge oblong window we want to split into 3 smaller windows again with brick pillar divides but depth of window increased so it is from floor to ceiling in height?

2. oblong std window converted Juliet balcony in rear bedroom......

 

[tony1851]

Re point 1. It depends how narrow your brick pillars are going to be, particularly if they're going floor-to-ceiling. How are they going to be secured at the top?
Is the existing lintel staying in?

 

[jonnyg2k6]

Lintels will be staying in and window will be no wider than original. Brick pillars will be around 2 bricks wide.....

 

[mysteryman]

Why?

 

[jonnyg2k6]

becuase window is 3m wide.

 

[tony1851]

Lintels will be staying in and window will be no wider than original. Brick pillars will be around 2 bricks wide.....

Two bricks wide would be OK but how are you going to secure the piers at the top? Unless you can mechanically fix the tops of the piers to the existing lintel
they will be unrestrained and potentially unstable.

 

[jonnyg2k6]

The lintel only seems to catch about 1/3 of the outer brick leaving 2/3 exposed. At first i thought there was no lintel!! have you ever seen this?

I'm ssuming your can just cement the piers to the existing brickwork !?!

 

[tony1851]

The lintel only seems to catch about 1/3 of the outer brick leaving 2/3 exposed. quote]

Never seen one with that much overhang before; maybe the bricks are tied back in some way, or are they perhaps pre-fabricated brick panels?

However it's arranged, ideally you still need to devise some way of fixing the top of the pier(s) to the underside of the lintel/exposed brickwork. Packing the joint with mortar won't suffice.

Assuming 2/3 of the bricks are exposed, then presumably they are solid bricks (ie no holes through them). Can you drill and plug a metal bracket to the underside, projecting down into your new outer skin, and build the bricks around it?