On Fri, 10 Mar 2006 13:08:27 GMT, dave wrote:

|Just a follow-up on an earlier posting re double glazing...
|
|Is it possible to tell just looking at the pic, if this ground floor
|wooden-framed window has/should have a lintel in there? Looks to me like a row
|of vertically placed bricks sitting atop the frame! (Well it IS, but does that
|mean the frame is taking all the weight above it!)
|
|If it is not possible to tell, what is the easiest way to find out (which bricks
|to remove). An ascii side elevation would help if someone can draw me one.

Put a thin long masonry drill through the soldier bricks and see what it
hits.
The house looks *old* so there were no legally enforced standards when it
was built, but the Victorians generally did things well. They generally
built things to last 100 years. :-) The 100 years are now up. :-(
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