Aligning inner and outer lintels

[kingandy2nd]

Hi guys,

I had posted this question onto the end of a previous thread, but probably more appropriate to be in the building section.

I'm installing a couple of lintels and have done the outer skin. The inner skin is hollow concrete blocks and the coarse is not inline with the outer brickwork. (Picture below).

Should I remove the hollow concrete block below where the lintel will sit and replace with bricks? Or should I use padstones?

Also how should I get the height up the extra couple of inches to get the lintels in line?

Thanks for your help
Andy

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[conny]

Fit a padstone or bricks to the top of the course that is one brick depth below the existing lintel and then use slates to fine tune the height in line with the outer brickwork.

 

[kingandy2nd]

Thanks for getting back to me...thought I was getting the silent treatment on here

I used engineering bricks, but because there was 35mm difference I thought it would be too much for slates to make up the difference. In the end I put the inner lintel up a bit higher up on a full brick. I figured that it will all be boxed in by plasterboard eventually so the hight difference won't be noticeable.