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Default Dropped bricks above window

NT wrote:


Not at all. Such minor structural issues arent hard to fix. However it
sounds like it probably just warrants patching up for now, and leave
it. It then might or might not need a more thorough repair in another
20 years.

Place timber support under the dropped brickwork, rake out the cracked
joints and remortar them. Don't rake out lots at once as you don't
want to destabilise it all, rake & remortar it part by part.


The problem with this theory is that when cracks have appeared (as in this
case) and the bricks have already dropped a few mm (as in this case) when
the frame is removed, the brickwork above falls down


A permanent fix would require a support fitting under the dropped
brickwork, either a lintel or a sufficiently strong window frame to
support it.


A lintel is required, and it's probably safe to say that there are none in
the house at all, so really, they could al do with being installed, this
requires cutting out brickwork to the sides of the openings, thus making the
patch of dropped brickwork even bigger

With no picture though theres always the possibility of this being
off, as I was remined on the last thread


Nah, he's got no lintels, his house is a lintel-free zone, he owns as many
lintels as my dog, IE none :-p

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