lintel

Hi all, I'm after some advice please. I am looking to replace an existing garage window with some french doors. The window already has a steel lintel, but this is going to need to be replaced as the doors are wider. The width of the doors are 1500mm the wall construction that the lintel...

Hi, Building a workshop/shed in garden. Have used concrete blocks to form walls and have now reached point where a roof needs to be considered!! I'm thinking a concrete lintel to span doorway? Overall width is 3.05m and door opening is 2.42m as I have 'rescued' a set of patio doors. The...

Hi All, This is my first post so please bear with me. I have a composite door and 2 sidelights to install. I have received the door and started taking the plaster to find no lintel above the existing door. Does one need to be put in before I can continue installing the composite door. The...

I know curtain rails have been done to death on here, but I can't find anything specific for my query... I put a curtain rail up last year into a bay window. It is a fairly wide bay with large thermal curtains with lots of weight to them. Naturally the area above the window is peppered with...

Very soon we are intending on creating an open plan kitchen/diner by holding up the gable end of the house using "picture frame" type steels. The calculations mention considering to use scaffolding/racking shores? Are these necessary? We were intending on using plenty of Strongboy XLs (on a...

I am on a mission to stop draughts and increase efficiency whilst redecorating. I am about to put plasterboard back up over a catnic lintel that looks like this... I have noticed that you can get catnic lintels that have a polystyrene filling, I was thinking of either stuffing it with...

Hi I have a single storey extension going in with a 4m long bifold to the garden, it is likely that due to this span we would be installing this steel with welded plate as you’ve shown in your detail drawing. My question is: Where this steel is supported at either side of the bifold, will the...

We're in the process of installing a stove in the dining room of our Victorian semi. Having removed the plasterboard from the opening and plaster around it, there's clearly been some infill bricks added and a new, small concrete lintel. We would like to open it to it's original dimensions, to...

Hi, we're making our chimney hole bigger to insert a cupboard inside. We're keeping the adjacent support walls and installing a lintel to lift the arch higher (see picture attached). I've had to also fill in the gaps between lintel and bricks with slates (as gap was too wide). I'm told this...

Evening all Wondering if I can pick your collective brains about lintels and loading etc. I’m intending to convert an old outbuilding/barn as a small workshop. The construction in solid 9” brick around 6m wide x 4.5m deep. At one end, and the middle of the building there are some 500mm...

Hi all - newbie on here and would like some help So I’m living in a Taylor Wimpey house built in the year 2000 - it had a gas fire in the living room and chimney on the roof. I decided this year that I’d like to install a log burner- however after taking out the fire I found that the clearance...

Desperately need some urgent help! We have a dormer with a brick cheek that runs down inside the house to the floor. We need to remove the wall inside the room but need to leave the end cheek in place. Is there any way we can support the brick cheek by fixing something sloped underneath -...

Hi I have looked around the net and not been able to find an example of the situation I am in and would appreciate some advice. We decided to expose a boarded up fireplace in our house (Victorian terrace). Started by removing the skirting board and plaster in the (assumed) centre of the hole...

I am replacing two windows in a victorian house from wooden sash windows to PVC windows. The windows are on opposite sides of the house with a stone outer lintel and wooden internal lintel - solid walls with no cavity. Both stone lintels have recently been replaced. I imagine the internal...

There was a dbl balcony door set into a 4m wall above this steel lintel, but no longer, it just supports floor joists these days. Will regs want it clad with 2 layers of plasterboard? And what type and thickness? Thank y'all kindly

Hi All We are in the process of self building a single storey extension on the rear of our property. We are aware we need a steel ridge beam for our gable roof and have had calcs agreed by building control for this. 152x89x16 at 4.2m being deemed sufficient. Situated approx 750mm Below each...

Hi, We have recently doing some work in our kitchen to open up a large chimney breast. We've hacked off most of the plaster and were very pleased to find a very large open fireplace. It was almost exactly what we were hoping for as we'd like to install a large range cooker in the chimney...

Hi I am slowly constructing my extension and everything has been going okay until I stumbled upon an article regarding openings near a wall return. It appears you need a 550mm internal return at an external corner although i'm not sure about my instance. It is an internal wall and I have an...

Hi I am doing the block work on my extension and I'm wondering the best way to continue around the ground floor windows. I can run a full course of 75mm blocks on top of my wall now which leaves me at the correct height for the window and then the coursing is also correct for the lintel, or I...

Hello all, In the last week a horizontal crack appeared above my kitchen window, moving outwards from a plastic vent cover in the middle. I removed the vent cover and found the cavity to be full of fibre wadding which was quite wet and rotten, so I pulled the immediately accessible stuff out...