idahoblues
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HahaA good way to check if there are lintels above your windows would be the lack of broken glass on the floor and the inability to pass items through the window opening.
HahaA good way to check if there are lintels above your windows would be the lack of broken glass on the floor and the inability to pass items through the window opening.
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And since when has wood not been a suitable header (lintel) material ?
Well.......yeah I guess there is that...easy fix though. Drove by this place last year whilst under constructionI can only imagine if it's an old house and the wood is rotted.
Thats true,as long as it is an existing situation, but once you remove the doors it is no longer classed as existing,which means it must conform to current building regs. Like its not whats already there that matters, but what you do that has to conform. If there is no lintel there now, then as existing it can remain as is, even though the doors have no structural use as you so rightly point out,but if you remove them you have to do the right thing re the supporting above. Sorry mate but thats how it is.Sorry mate but the doors really do not have any structural use whatsoever
Well.......yeah I guess there is that...easy fix though. Drove by this place last year whilst under construction
https://structurecraft.com/projects/east-grand-office
Thats true,as long as it is an existing situation, but once you remove the doors it is no longer classed as existing,which means it must conform to current building regs. Like its not whats already there that matters, but what you do that has to conform. If there is no lintel there now, then as existing it can remain as is, even though the doors have no structural use as you so rightly point out,but if you remove them you have to do the right thing re the supporting above. Sorry mate but thats how it is.
Glad I don't build over thereThats true,as long as it is an existing situation, but once you remove the doors it is no longer classed as existing,which means it must conform to current building regs. Like its not whats already there that matters, but what you do that has to conform. If there is no lintel there now, then as existing it can remain as is, even though the doors have no structural use as you so rightly point out,but if you remove them you have to do the right thing re the supporting above. Sorry mate but thats how it is.
Since steel and concrete have been around,In a fire maybe, or if a wolf huffs and puffs.And since when has wood not been a suitable header (lintel) material ?
Have seen windows without lintels. The brickwork just cross bonded above the opening. All loads had to be jacked up on Acros and Lintels InstalledA good way to check if there are lintels above your windows would be the lack of broken glass on the floor and the inability to pass items through the window opening.