New door to internal garage lintel question

[Benway]

Hello.

Finally getting round to putting a door between our internal garage and hallway. The wall is single thickness 100mm aerated block, and I think load bearing as joists from two directions, start & finish above the wall. There is no 1st floor wall above the wall I need to make a hole in.

Am I right in guessing a concrete lintel 100mm x 65mm would be OK to use in this situation?

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• Benway
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Cheers

 

[limerockconstruction]

Quite right - if you can get away with a 100 x 140 it always feels that bit stronger, if you're restricted for height a 65mm will be fine.

 

[tony1851]

Yes, but make life easier for yourself and use a 4"x4" timber lintel (eg offcut from a fence post). Lighter, probably cheaper, and easier to fix plasterboard to.

 

[Benway]

Thank you gentlemen.

As long as the house doesn't fall down because of me I'm happy!

Cheers

 

[Benway]

Finally got round to doing this.

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Best invention ever, much less dust.

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[Benway]

All in. Just a few finishing jobs to do.

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