New Lintel Question

[DIWhySOS]

Hi all,

I've searched long and hard on the internet to try and find the answer but just cannot seem to get anywhere so hopefully this isn't a repeated thread.

I currently have a living room which currently has double doors to enter. I want to partition part of the room to create a new office and a smaller living room.

The plan is to have the new door (created in a load bearing wall) next to the existing double doors but convert the double to a single.

Currently the double door has a steel lintel spanning it.

My question is, can a lintel start next to another lintel? Picture below to try and support my explanation. Thought process is surely it should be ok as the door closest to the new door will be filled in so the 50% of the lintel closest to the new one is now largely redundant?

Thanks in advance!

 

[crank39]

This might be better in the building section as it's more to do with load bearing walls and lintels not the actual door

 

[Dereekoo]

Yes it can as long as remaining section of wall can take load imposed on it which in your case should not be a problem