Fitting gallows bracket under chimney breast
 

How do you support the brickwork above where you intend to install the
bracket, at the moment it is sat on a large timber across two joists in
the loft, am i going to do more harm than good, trying to install such
a bracket.
It has been stable for 20 years is that the way chimney breasts were
supported years ago ?

Im just trying to get a feel for what i need to do should the buyers
surveyor point it out as an issue.

Fitting gallows bracket under chimney breast
 

Richard Grounddiver wrote:
How do you support the brickwork above where you intend to install the
bracket, at the moment it is sat on a large timber across two joists in
the loft, am i going to do more harm than good, trying to install such
a bracket.
It has been stable for 20 years is that the way chimney breasts were
supported years ago ?

Im just trying to get a feel for what i need to do should the buyers
surveyor point it out as an issue.

Mine are bolted to the wall by two half inch dia raw bolts. There is
then a small lintel across the front resting on each bracket. They
would probabley hold up a battleship but I bet if ever I come to sell
they wont be good enough. Mine were also done under local council
inspection so I guess that I have that on my side. They have been up
over 20 years.

Kevin

Fitting gallows bracket under chimney breast
 

Kev wrote:
Richard Grounddiver wrote:
How do you support the brickwork above where you intend to install the
bracket, at the moment it is sat on a large timber across two joists in
the loft, am i going to do more harm than good, trying to install such
a bracket.
It has been stable for 20 years is that the way chimney breasts were
supported years ago ?

Im just trying to get a feel for what i need to do should the buyers
surveyor point it out as an issue.

Mine are bolted to the wall by two half inch dia raw bolts. There is
then a small lintel across the front resting on each bracket. They
would probabley hold up a battleship but I bet if ever I come to sell
they wont be good enough. Mine were also done under local council
inspection so I guess that I have that on my side. They have been up
over 20 years.

Kevin

I probably should have worded it better, i mean how are the bricks
supported while you get the bracket in place?

Fitting gallows bracket under chimney breast
 

On 4 Aug 2006 03:26:09 -0700, Kev wrote:


Mine are bolted to the wall by two half inch dia raw bolts. There is
then a small lintel across the front resting on each bracket. They
would probabley hold up a battleship but I bet if ever I come to sell
they wont be good enough. Mine were also done under local council
inspection so I guess that I have that on my side. They have been up
over 20 years.

The flat I sold at the end of last year a had a structural roof survey done
at the request of the buyer, they said this setup wasn't strong enough and
needed a steel plate also inserted covering the entire lower surface, I
think it said 5mm. I seem to remember the reason was to stop mortar
dropping from between the bricks. (huh?)

Steve

Fitting gallows bracket under chimney breast
 

Richard Grounddiver wrote:


I probably should have worded it better, i mean how are the bricks
supported while you get the bracket in place?

Well my chimney just sat there unsupported while the brackets were
fitted, not by me a hasten to add. I suppose if you were at all worried
you could fit a much wider lintel which was propped in some way while
you knocked ot the remaining brickwork then fitted the brackets.

Kevin

Fitting gallows bracket under chimney breast
 

In article .com,
"Kev" writes:

Richard Grounddiver wrote:


I probably should have worded it better, i mean how are the bricks
supported while you get the bracket in place?

Well my chimney just sat there unsupported while the brackets were
fitted, not by me a hasten to add. I suppose if you were at all worried
you could fit a much wider lintel which was propped in some way while
you knocked ot the remaining brickwork then fitted the brackets.

Probably a bad idea to be using a large SDS drill to drill any
holes in the wall whilst it's unsupported though ;-)

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Andrew Gabriel