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If I was to just repair the brickwork and keep the original sized opening. Should I replace the lintel with a 100x65 concrete lintel or just leave the timber one in?

Thanks noseall, it would leave 380mm, would that suffice? I assume it is built into the kitchen brickwork where it returns, as it is externally, but I’m not 100%.

I have a 2 bed Victorian terrace, with the floor plan below I had an arched doorway going from the dining room into the kitchen. I started to remove this to square it back off, and found a wooden lintel that’s barely resting on anything I’m thinking of now opening this up further like...

Hopefully these show it better

Ok let me take more, it’s quite a difficult spot to take photos of.

I assume it is supporting the upstairs floor, but not sure how to check? Should there not be any kind of lintel on the inside if there is a stone lintel on the outside? I’m worried that the bricks and joist both have no support?

I’ve had my old wooden framed front door replaced with a new composite one. From the outside it has a stone lintel. When the fitter removed the old wood frame, there was a soldier course above that fell down. He then fitted the new frame and door. He said the solider course was just an...

I’ve dug down 4 courses below the internal floor level (a course below the bottom of the original air vent) and still no sign of an original DPC. Yes the recessed wall is the dining room. I’ve lifted the flagstones in my back garden but can’t go any lower easily as there is a concrete patio...

Sorry I thought I said earlier the airbrick is wet from me cleaning it to try and find the dpc, it wasn’t wet. Also my neighbour has told me they believe the rear was originally a solid floor, but I’ll look to see if I can find any airbricks. My neighbour doesn’t have any? I’m not sure where...

These are my vents at the front, but when I look in then they appear to be concrete inside. It seems like the original suspended timber floor has been filled in, the whole house now has the same solid floor. I can’t see it at the front, the photo below shows what I can see. I’m going to lift...

I’ll keep on eye on it when it rains, but I haven’t noticed it so far. Their gutter does go into the same drain under the kitchen window though. I’m not sure why the gutter has been done like that, very odd, a few others have it to.

Looking at every other house, all the gutters follow the same route and all go into a drain under the kitchen window like mine. I’ve also dug down and the boiler condensate pipe goes into a hole full of gravel, not a drain. I’m hoping my damp issues on that external wall will be solved once I...

I’m not sure, it’s only in the outer leaf though. If it’s a soakaway could it not be still causing the damp?

I’ve not noticed them spilling but I’ve only had the house a few The bathroom and kitchen drains are round the corner. Once I’ve lifted and investigated the drain / soak away, i’ll look to put the condensate pipe round the corner and into same drain.

Thanks! The suspected broken drain and the internal wall and at the back and the front of the house, could they be the same problem? I asked about the airbricks at the front in case that’s letting water in and causing damp at the front? I can take some photos, just not sure if it matters if the...

Thanks Blup. Is there anyway I can fix that issue on the internal wall. Should I be removing the bricks one by one for example, and taping and lapping?

I also have some damp on an internal wall between the living room and the hall. It looks like it’s had this issue before as it has an injection dpc, I believe the floor has been filled in with concrete, there are some original airbricks at the front, they are right at the external ground level...

Photo of the “drain” also, not had time to clear any further as of yet

Ok thank you, so it looks like a combination of water running down the wall and a broken gulley?