brick lintel

Hiya! I am knocking down the decorative part of my fireplace. It was chunky, took a lot of place, and made out of bricks. Everything is going great, but I am unsure about this part. It looks like cement has been poored underneath what seems to me the structural arch lintel, and goes over the...

Hi, We are having a new boiler fitted and I returned home yesterday to find our plummers have routed a 22mm gas pipe out through the brick lintel above a 2ft window. Aesthetics aside, which I can live with, have they compromised the structure of the lintel? Thanks