Lintel installation in cavity wall

My neighbour want's me to fit 2 windows for him in his lounge but there are no openings in the wall yet.

It's a cavity wall so facing brick externally and internally it's all covered with wallpaper.

I expect a catnic cavity lintel is required with cavity closers to sides and bottom and this needs notifying to local building control.

I have acro props and can hire a couple of strong boys to support above where the lintel will go.

My question is will the internal finish be disturbed so much so that he'll have to have the whole wall re-decorated?

Any advice welcomed

Cheers

Homer

 

chances are yes, but depends on how neat you cut the hole, how old the plaster is and how perfect you want the finish, for a perfect finish id skim the whole wall after your done then redecorate.

 

OK thanks, I thought as much but was just wondering if anyone had any tips or had done it themselves.

He seems to think I'd be able to do all the work from the outside and work my way into the inner leaf as far as the back of the plasterboard and then slice and fold in the sides and top of the plasterboard with the wallpaper still on it!

That sounds like a nightmare to me and would take a lot longer to do.

Cheers

 

If he thinks that's so easy then why not let him do that bit?

 

Yes then I'll just turn up with the windows and fit them into his neatly prepared openings, job done haha.

 

Jeez, is a good friend too? Or is he paying you? Sounds like one the other of you is gonna be seriously peed off!

 

Anyway, his 'suggestion' about cutting and turning the plasterboard with wallpaper in tact is a complete non-starter. Even if you were able to cut accurately it simply wouldn't fit.

He has to be some kind of joker.

 

Not a friend just a neighbour from around the corner so he would be paying me.

 

He is having a laugh I know!

I think it's more his wife who doesn't want any mess inside her lovely spotless lounge, Not that I have a problem with that but as I said to them both, some jobs are just like that.

You can't make an omelette without breaking eggs

 

your not going to it without making a mess

 

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