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Brilliant. Many thanks.

There's currently a single course of full-size blocks above/in the existing lintel; nowhere to tuck a strongboy. Ideally I'd like to take those out, build up the piers and put the new lintel in closer to the joists to gain a little more headroom under the arch. But I can see that that would mean...

Looking to pick people's brains on propping for a lintel, please. Am I OK to prop joists directly, as described below? If not, what's the "right" answer? Details. SWMBO and I moved last year, to a mid-70s dormer bungalow. We're looking to widen an existing internal doorway into an archway...