advice required from a builder: moving a lintel

[stevechesh]

Originally Posted by Mark Chase

You can do one of the folowing:

Needle the bricks:

Punch a hole through the stack and put a support through ( a 4X6 will do it)
then support both sides with acro's or wedged props


Bodge it with a length of Angle iron:

Rake out a mortor joint across a line above where you want to work and hammer in a length of angle iron


If your house falls down using either sugestion I was obviously talking bollocks so more fool you
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But Mark,

Look at the results when he fitted the new hot water system.......God knows what will happen when he tries brickwork!

[Spacehopper]

Originally Posted by wilbo

/snip.. providing the rest of the stack is supported on the strongboys.... /snip

If the rest of the chimps are involved, anything could happen!



Gareth

[buchhawk]

Originally Posted by PeeBee

Hmm, if there is a lintel in there, it's there for a reason and not just to support a couple of courses of bricks. Chasey's suggestion and diagram is the right way to go.

good luck

I am saying the same as Chasey, just not as good at explaining myself

Ken

[Mark Chase]

If you have access to strong-boys then that will do the job no problem.

Thats what id use, but then I have a set in the yard. I was looking for a more DIY bodge it answer


ATB

Mark

[wilbo]

Originally Posted by Mark Chase

If you have access to strong-boys then that will do the job no problem.

Thats what id use, but then I have a set in the yard. I was looking for a more DIY bodge it answer


ATB

Mark

HSSHire - 20 quid for the weekend.. as good as it gets..

thanks for your help Mark

[wilbo]

.. and more importantly so is the house!

thanks for all the advice last week..

1 strongboy and 1 acro did the job nicely - supporting the chimney breast while the new lintel went in, mortar dried and then the old lintel was cut out.

all in all nearly finished just waiting for a few bits to dry before it is complete.

on reflection it was a job for a handy DIYer - and not for someone who is not up for serious DIY. I'll take some piccies once its finished and post them up.

so thank you again..


greens incoming.

[neilh]

Originally Posted by wilbo

.. and more importantly so is the house!

Congrats! So, did it earn you your pink pass?

[wilbo]

Originally Posted by neilh

Congrats! So, did it earn you your pink pass?

- still working on that one.. i.e. I've not brought it up yet..

[Mark Chase]

Originally Posted by stevechesh

But Mark,

Look at the results when he fitted the new hot water system.......God knows what will happen when he tries brickwork!

Thats pure genious Does he want a job?

ATB

Mark