2009年6月15日 · Also should they have cemented the wood lintel in place or anything. From what I gather the breezeblock was hacked away, so definately not smooth and very uneven where it meets the wood. The wood was 40mm or 50mm thick. and it is a single door size opening.

2004年6月11日 · I have three rotten timber lintels over a window in my house The wall is 500 mm thick random stone The window is on the first floor whats the easiest way to replace the three timber lintels with three new 150 x 100 mm conc lintels can i …

2019年6月19日 · My question is what is better a concrete lintel (Supreme Concrete Prestressed Textured Concrete Lintel 65mm x 100mm) from travis perkins or a wooden lintel also from travis perkins (Sawn Treated Timber Regularised C16/C24 75mm x 100mm x 3.0m) cut to size obviously The thickness of the concrete lintel is 100mm x 65mm

2020年8月16日 · Originally it was an open fire when the house was built (around 1850) and then circa 1990s it was changed to a wood burner. I’ve taken away the wood surround to expose the brick work behind and I can’t see a lintel. We do have a metal bar running across the opening but it’s only 10mm think and 50mm wide. It’s flat and not L-shaped.

2016年6月22日 · Fitters arrived today to fit a new composite front door in my concrete block porch but couldn't go ahead as the wood lintel which I'd been assured by the long-retired builder (was built 17 years ago) was definitely there, actually wasn't. I now have to get one fitted before the door can go in, I'm told it's building regs now.

2024年5月16日 · I'm curious about the stone wall being internal, only seen this on old farm buildings, I can maybe give a couple of examples but the internals were brick and the sandstone ones were exterior, my external ones took a day to dig out ready for the lintel(6 feet wide) a second day to put the lintel in and cut the doorway, a third day to point and clean up, the clean up was a bit like cleaning up ...

2021年11月17日 · Hi, DIYer here, but happy to try most stuff! Had a new UPVC double glazed window fitted that is significantly smaller than the existing original 1910ish single glazed wooden window. Was surprised to see a wooden lintel there, but have found out that is not uncommon. It looks sound. My...

2007年11月29日 · Morning all, Im going to be building a wooden cabin 6.3x3.6m in my garden. The walls are going to be out of 120x45 timbers with a roof of some form of fibre cement, so not heavy. Im putting an opening on the long side of 3m, Im planning to use a lintel of 120x240, but the question is, what do...

2022年11月13日 · Hi folks 3 pictures attached of upstairs bathroom window in Victorian 3-bed terrace, built 1865. During bathroom refit, discovered that the original wooden lintel is rotten at both ends. It wasn't wet to touch, and has probably been like that for a few decades - other houses in this terrace...

2018年7月9日 · After removing I see that the existing wooden lintel is completely rotten on one end, due to old wood worm infestation. So I need to replace it. The dimensions of the existing wooden lintel is: Width 1100mm ; Depth 130mm; Height 55mm; The lintel is only supporting the inner skin of block work.