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Perhaps a bit of a strange question, but let me try and make sense.
We are planning to extend our small front hall with an extension. Currently the entire front of the house is an opening with a huge lintel that was poured in situ. So we do not have any walls to tie the extension to, only an opening.
Please see a photo to hopefully make sense of it.
The idea is to remove the 4 smaller windows (2 either side of the door), cut the window frame, build the walls, then temporarily remove the big windows in order to fix the frame to the new wall, and then refit the big windows.
This does mean that the ends of the wall will terminate under the lintel and inside the house. So we can use some cavity end caps, or bricks in their ends before plastering and decorating.
Does that make sense?
Do I need anything to secure the new cavity wall to the lintel?
We are planning to extend our small front hall with an extension. Currently the entire front of the house is an opening with a huge lintel that was poured in situ. So we do not have any walls to tie the extension to, only an opening.
Please see a photo to hopefully make sense of it.
The idea is to remove the 4 smaller windows (2 either side of the door), cut the window frame, build the walls, then temporarily remove the big windows in order to fix the frame to the new wall, and then refit the big windows.
This does mean that the ends of the wall will terminate under the lintel and inside the house. So we can use some cavity end caps, or bricks in their ends before plastering and decorating.
Does that make sense?
Do I need anything to secure the new cavity wall to the lintel?