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Lintel replacement
Anonymous user 03/03/2024 - 3.22 PM
Can you please advise normally how long would it to take replace the steel lintel above an external door (say opening 2m wide) in a morden house of 30 years old? Would the door need to be removed for the lintel replacement? What is the cost range roughly? Which section I should post the job? Is it bricklayer section? Many thanks Reggie
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McKinley and sons
Rating: 4.8 out of 5
Door can stay in place. Work will take between one and one and a half days assuming plaster and render internally will need to be made good.
Definitely a job for a bricklayer.
Price depends on what part of the country you’re in.
Hopefully this helps at least a little.
Brendan
Answered3 May 2019
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Anonymous user
Door could stay in place but I wouldn’t recommend it without full protection ie bubble wrap or similar , size of opening at 2 m wide would need propping/ needles to old masonry / floor above until new lintel installed and made good .probably plasterboard on internal skin considering age of building (dot and dab ) .
Depending on type of lintel used a pvc cavity tray should be installed over lintol and weep holes (3 no ) should be installed in perpendicular joints of masonry
Answered2 June 2019
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