I am renovating a house at the moment and have decided to open up the kitchen and dining room.
Image 1720 shows me looking into the kitchen from the dining room. I intend to take out the section of wall to the left of the old kitchen door. The open span here will be 1.5m. All fairly straightforward. The exposed wall is the internal skin of a cavity wall.
Image 1718 shows the view from the kitchen looking into the dining room. This extension was built in 1983 and before that there will have been a little outhouse in its place.
You can see the double wood lintel (6" in total) holding up the external skin of the house. I assume this was put in when the house was built in the 1930's. However, the lintel is only resting on 10cm of brick and the pillar on the left is not really tied into the house wall. I have put one brick in just as a temp measure until i decide what to do.
The right side is just as bad, maybe worse. The last brick holding up the beam has been turned to stand vertical instead of horizontal (you can't see this in the photo though).
BC are coming on friday. I now want to put in a steel to replace this wooden lintel and rebuild the left pillar outwards.
Just thought i would post up the photos for interest.
Do you think 3 strongboys will be enough to hold up the bigger section when i come to take out the wooden lintel ?
Ps the first floor is not loading on this rear wall which a bonus, but the kitchen extension roof is, but it is flat and wood.
Image 1720 shows me looking into the kitchen from the dining room. I intend to take out the section of wall to the left of the old kitchen door. The open span here will be 1.5m. All fairly straightforward. The exposed wall is the internal skin of a cavity wall.
Image 1718 shows the view from the kitchen looking into the dining room. This extension was built in 1983 and before that there will have been a little outhouse in its place.
You can see the double wood lintel (6" in total) holding up the external skin of the house. I assume this was put in when the house was built in the 1930's. However, the lintel is only resting on 10cm of brick and the pillar on the left is not really tied into the house wall. I have put one brick in just as a temp measure until i decide what to do.
The right side is just as bad, maybe worse. The last brick holding up the beam has been turned to stand vertical instead of horizontal (you can't see this in the photo though).
BC are coming on friday. I now want to put in a steel to replace this wooden lintel and rebuild the left pillar outwards.
Just thought i would post up the photos for interest.
Do you think 3 strongboys will be enough to hold up the bigger section when i come to take out the wooden lintel ?
Ps the first floor is not loading on this rear wall which a bonus, but the kitchen extension roof is, but it is flat and wood.
