Hi,
I am planning on knocking through this wall - from a converted garage into the kitchen. It is supporting wall, single skin (with piers). I started to remove the plasterboard wall to expose the brick only to find an existing concrete lintel already in place! Unfortunately, it is not quite in the right place. The existing lintel runs behind the stud wall to the left (which cannot be removed as there is a soil pipe there). I would like my opening to be 100mm or so wider (on the right hand side) than the current lintel.
I was thinking that rather than remove it, to use two angle iron either side of the existing lintel (75 x 50) and then extending 200mm to the right of the lintel as well. I could then bolt them together through the lintel.
I would really appreciate any advice out there - is this a good idea? Or can anyone advise of another route?
Apologies for the poor photograph.
Thanks
I am planning on knocking through this wall - from a converted garage into the kitchen. It is supporting wall, single skin (with piers). I started to remove the plasterboard wall to expose the brick only to find an existing concrete lintel already in place! Unfortunately, it is not quite in the right place. The existing lintel runs behind the stud wall to the left (which cannot be removed as there is a soil pipe there). I would like my opening to be 100mm or so wider (on the right hand side) than the current lintel.
I was thinking that rather than remove it, to use two angle iron either side of the existing lintel (75 x 50) and then extending 200mm to the right of the lintel as well. I could then bolt them together through the lintel.
I would really appreciate any advice out there - is this a good idea? Or can anyone advise of another route?
Apologies for the poor photograph.
Thanks
