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Looking for a bit of help /advice please!
I need to make good and safe the brickwork above the entrance to a woodshed at my mum's house. The wooden lintel has rotted away and the mortar between the bricks above has cracked. It's not supporting anything.
I know I need to remove the top two/three layers of bricks, and replace the rotting wooden lintel. So far so easy.
Then I should be okay laying bricks (hopefully be able to get mortar off and reuse these ones) to the top - I've not done bricklaying before, but I've got someone on hand to advise as we go.
My main question is - that wall to the left of the door in the pic below looks like it's leaning to me - maybe being pushed out by the brickwork on the top collapsing onto the lintel and twisting? If it is, then would replacing the lintel and top layers bricks sort the issue, and if not, what could I do?
The idea is to make the entrance *safe* rather than aesthetically perfect; taking the entire wall down is beyond what she wants done, and to do that and rebuild it is probably beyond my capacity tbh. She has trust issues with strangers, so no chance of getting any contractors in - all down to us.
The wall sections on both sides are stable, it's only the top that's wobbling. The wooden fence is not ours so has to stay as is.
This is the shed from the inside; the roof sits on a timber frame, not on the wall brickwork itself.
I'll probably extend the guttering through the wall when I take the top bricks off.
I need to make good and safe the brickwork above the entrance to a woodshed at my mum's house. The wooden lintel has rotted away and the mortar between the bricks above has cracked. It's not supporting anything.
I know I need to remove the top two/three layers of bricks, and replace the rotting wooden lintel. So far so easy.
Then I should be okay laying bricks (hopefully be able to get mortar off and reuse these ones) to the top - I've not done bricklaying before, but I've got someone on hand to advise as we go.
My main question is - that wall to the left of the door in the pic below looks like it's leaning to me - maybe being pushed out by the brickwork on the top collapsing onto the lintel and twisting? If it is, then would replacing the lintel and top layers bricks sort the issue, and if not, what could I do?
The idea is to make the entrance *safe* rather than aesthetically perfect; taking the entire wall down is beyond what she wants done, and to do that and rebuild it is probably beyond my capacity tbh. She has trust issues with strangers, so no chance of getting any contractors in - all down to us.
The wall sections on both sides are stable, it's only the top that's wobbling. The wooden fence is not ours so has to stay as is.
This is the shed from the inside; the roof sits on a timber frame, not on the wall brickwork itself.
I'll probably extend the guttering through the wall when I take the top bricks off.