Hi there,
As part of my house renovation, I'm replacing a floor-length 800mm wide window (god knows why they put that in) for a conventional height 1200mm window. So of course the existing lintel needs widening. Don't worry, I'll be acro and strongboying above before the work. Just have a question about the lintel...
Existing lintel is a massive concrete thing that spans the whole width of the cavity wall. Can't seem to see these available on the merchants sites, and seems a bit excessive too. I did see a detail drawing on Travis P's site showing two 100mm concrete lintels - 1 for each leaf of the cavity wall. This seems the easiest and cheapest solution, but can anyone confirm if that's the done thing? Otherwise looks like a catnic or similar and some bricks. For information, it's a bungalow but this is a gable wall. A pretty shallow pitch roof (it's an extension) so not a huge amount of weight above this lintel, but plenty I guess.
Any help appreciated,
Liam
As part of my house renovation, I'm replacing a floor-length 800mm wide window (god knows why they put that in) for a conventional height 1200mm window. So of course the existing lintel needs widening. Don't worry, I'll be acro and strongboying above before the work. Just have a question about the lintel...
Existing lintel is a massive concrete thing that spans the whole width of the cavity wall. Can't seem to see these available on the merchants sites, and seems a bit excessive too. I did see a detail drawing on Travis P's site showing two 100mm concrete lintels - 1 for each leaf of the cavity wall. This seems the easiest and cheapest solution, but can anyone confirm if that's the done thing? Otherwise looks like a catnic or similar and some bricks. For information, it's a bungalow but this is a gable wall. A pretty shallow pitch roof (it's an extension) so not a huge amount of weight above this lintel, but plenty I guess.
Any help appreciated,
Liam