Opening span brick thickness vertical leg steel angle horizontal leg thickness intermediate support wood lam beam 2743mm 9 75mm 100mm 90mm 90mm 90mm 6mm 6mm not required 400mm o c 3 2x8 ss.
Lintel above garage door.
The old wooden lintel over the garage door has rotten away leaving the brick work over to sag and bow.
Above 8 feet the load is transferred to brickwork on either side of the lintel.
When a garage door lintel fails it causes the brick wall being supported to sag leaving a noticeable crack right above the garage door.
First thing to do is hire an acrow bar from andy hire and get that brick work back to it s level position supported.
The lintellift system is a patented product that ensures garage door lintels or headers won t sag.
The house has brick front and two car garage.
Of brick veneer over both single and double garage door openings.
It s in quite a dangerous state.