Lintel with cracks?

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Hi building experts!

I've just stripped the plaster from the walls of my 1927 kitchen/diner to expose the brickwork, its exposed a lintel that's above my patio doors - the house has been standing since 1927 and so at first I wasn't too concerned about the cracks visible down the length of the lintel but thought I ought to just check before proceeding any further.

I was considering perhaps some screwable rods that height of the lintel that I could screw up and into it to give it some support?

What do you think?



 
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Get it removed and replaced.

Looks like the load has started to shear it in half.
 
ibby";p="2296589 said:
Get it removed and replaced.

Looks like the load has started to shear it in half.[/quote

This lintel has been in place since 1927 though, the cracks could have been there a year since first build for all we know, due to settling oof the house/foundations?
 
What's the problem? I can't see one.
 
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sergeantash";p="2296623 said:
Get it removed and replaced.

Looks like the load has started to shear it in half.[/quote

This lintel has been in place since 1927 though, the cracks could have been there a year since first build for all we know, due to settling oof the house/foundations?

Could be.

I am sure one of the other members will provide insight on this issue by tommrow :mrgreen:
 
That is a timber lintel, and those are not cracks - they are shakes/splits which occurred soon after installation as the timber dried.

Nothing to do with loading or movement, and not a problem
 
Thanks chaps, the hardest part about DIYNot is knowing who to listen to :D but I'm with the latter posts, its been there since 1927...if it was going to fail it would have by now :D

p.s. I scrawled 'Ash was ere' on the lnitel for whomever uncovers it next, its not a discovery unfortunately hehe.
 

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