Novice here, so some stupid questions first. I assume the blue steel beam I'm seeing between the window frame and bricks is the lintel yes??
As you can see from the picture there seems to be a gap between the this lintel and brickwork...around 1 cm in the midpoint. The window is 3.6m wide, quite wide by modern standards I think. On the inside, there are some cracks in the plaster along the width of the window about 10cm up from the edge.
The house was built in 1969. We had a fairly thorough survey done when we bought the house, but this wasn't mentioned. Any opinion as to how worried we should be?? How easy is it to fix a sagging lintel? We intend to change the window next year, possibly bricking it up to waist level, but keeping the width.
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As you can see from the picture there seems to be a gap between the this lintel and brickwork...around 1 cm in the midpoint. The window is 3.6m wide, quite wide by modern standards I think. On the inside, there are some cracks in the plaster along the width of the window about 10cm up from the edge.
The house was built in 1969. We had a fairly thorough survey done when we bought the house, but this wasn't mentioned. Any opinion as to how worried we should be?? How easy is it to fix a sagging lintel? We intend to change the window next year, possibly bricking it up to waist level, but keeping the width.
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