Help!What are these things.......

[maskell01]

Hi Building Guru's,

What are these either side of the window, other than buggered and unsightly????

Is it a massive job to replace????
where would i find such items new???

the house is 1937 built, old police house.


Cheers all!



Aaron

 

[theprinceofdarkness]

If they are the bits you are referring to, they are to support the roof level gable end which overhangs the walls. Its a big job to replace them with corbled out brickwork and I am not sure that it would work down the length of the roof, i.e. you could support the front of the gable, but not its depth, you would have to re-truss the roof.
Frank

 

[maskell01]

i Was refering to the buggered sandstone bits with a big oldf rusty bar going through the middle.


p.s thanks for the reply.

 

[tony1851]

They are corbels, and they will not be sandstone but just reinforced concrete.
They can be replaced, but you would have to corbel 3 0r 4 courses of brickwork out to match. Google 'brick corbels' and you will see many pics showing
the principle. Not an easy DIY job - more one for a bricklayer, and a good one at that.

 

[maskell01]

That's the bad boy!
I was thinking about just replacing the full concrete reinforced block!
Rather than bricking it back!

There's a company down the road who makes reconstituted blocks to measure!

I wasn't too good at Jenga!!!!!