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Thanks to everyone for their advise so far! There is brickwork above. A picture might explain it better. I've uploaded the building plans for that wall and I've drawn the location of the door of the door in red. Frontal view of the doorway on the right and side view on the left.

Its brick and I understand that generally lintels are required for any doorways. However, I was told by a builder that the aluminium frame of a sliding door is sufficient to support the roof of a 1 storey house so I was wondering if there was any truth of it. I myself found it hard to believe...

Hi, I'm looking at installing a new sliding door approximately 2m in length. As I will need to cut a new doorway for that into the wall, I have been getting conflicting advice on whether I would need a lintel as some people have told me that the aluminium frame of the sliding door will beable...