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richard7761
Domestic home. The ground-floor internal wall is load bearing, it runs through the centre of the house from gable end to gable end and it supports beams.
There is a door in the wall, that is is 30" or 760mm wide. Above it is concrete lintel of some description (presumably re-inforced - not sure. House built in 1958).
The size of the lintel above the door is 1060mm long, (assuming 150mm on either side), x 150mm deep, and 110mm wide.
Okay, in the same load-bearing wall I'm making another doorway 65Cm from the original one..
The width of the new doorway will be 680mm , so I'll need a lintel about 980mm.
Okay, taking into consideration the size of the lintel over the original doorway, what size of lintel do I need to buy for the new doorway?
Do I need a special type of lintel considering that the wall is load-bearing? Or, just a regular re-inforced lintel?
Do I need one about 980mm x 120mm x 150mm? Or what ? Thanks.
P.S.
Let me just add this:
The wall that is load-bearing, which is holding up beams is brick, single skin, and half-brick width. Also, the beams do not rest on each side of the house, they interleave (side to side) at the load-bearing wall. So, the beam end points do rest on the wall as oppossed to a beam that goes from one side of the house to the other, with central point resting on the wall.
There will be four courses of bricks above the lintel before the beams.
I think concrete lintels are used for load bearing single skin internal walls. That's what I've read.
There is a door in the wall, that is is 30" or 760mm wide. Above it is concrete lintel of some description (presumably re-inforced - not sure. House built in 1958).
The size of the lintel above the door is 1060mm long, (assuming 150mm on either side), x 150mm deep, and 110mm wide.
Okay, in the same load-bearing wall I'm making another doorway 65Cm from the original one..
The width of the new doorway will be 680mm , so I'll need a lintel about 980mm.
Okay, taking into consideration the size of the lintel over the original doorway, what size of lintel do I need to buy for the new doorway?
Do I need a special type of lintel considering that the wall is load-bearing? Or, just a regular re-inforced lintel?
Do I need one about 980mm x 120mm x 150mm? Or what ? Thanks.
P.S.
Let me just add this:
The wall that is load-bearing, which is holding up beams is brick, single skin, and half-brick width. Also, the beams do not rest on each side of the house, they interleave (side to side) at the load-bearing wall. So, the beam end points do rest on the wall as oppossed to a beam that goes from one side of the house to the other, with central point resting on the wall.
There will be four courses of bricks above the lintel before the beams.
I think concrete lintels are used for load bearing single skin internal walls. That's what I've read.