Can I chop out this area of brickwork?

[barki]

Hi all,

I plan to install a sectional garage door onto the front of my currently open cart lodge so I can store the family cycles etc inside.

Looking at the below photo, on the left hand edges the 'legs' for the door frame will be behind the brickwork and timber reveal, no problem.

However, on the right hand side, there is nothing to hide the leg behind. It is optional to order the door with a 90mm trim that'll fit down that edge and thus secure the frame sidewards into the brickwork & timber with a trim infront of it. It just won't look so good and will also reduce the opening width.

What I'm wondering is, would it be foolish to carefully chop out the area I've scribbled red below, allowing both left and right sides to fit behind a reveal. Would that unacceptable weaken the wall? I believe it'd need to be to a depth of 60mm chopped out. Trims are 90mm but they are oversized.

I think the sensible answer is probably just to leave the wall alone and go with the trims but asking incase I am being unduly cautious.

Cheers

 

[23vc]

Pretty sure fine, guess only slight possibility is the oak’s bearing a really big load from the roof and by taking out half of the bit of wall you’re reducing how it’s spread, but pretty sure that’s not a concern unless someone chips in otherwise…

 

[barki]

Thank you.

That's encouraging. Unsure how I'm going to go about deciding one-way or the other. Hmmmm.

What I'll probably do is think about it literally all night several times and then make a decision when I've had no sleep for three days .

 

[^woody^]

That's not a structural concern. Chip away.

 

[barki]

Thanks.

May I ask, would you say the same if I needs to go deeper than the 60mm - say, the full 90mm, nearly the full depth of the first whole brick. Leaving not much more than one whole brick thickness behind that.

Wouldn't be worth adding maybe a steel angle plate or similar to replace lost strength?.