"Phil L" wrote in message
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Arthur 51 wrote:
For an 8ft lintel.
Is it ok to use a pad block that will need to be 6" long
mounted on the inner leaf of an exterior double leaf wall?
...so the pad block will protrude a couple of inches from the wall.

Thanks.

Arthur


not sure what you are trying to acheive here but...it's better to have the
padstone sitting squarely on the masonry - any overhang, in this case 33%
of the padstone, can destabilise the whole thing.

If I make the pad stone say 6" thick and it tapers from the 6" length down
to 4",
would that be a goer?




Why is the lintel only going on the inside skin? - what's holding up the
exterior masonry?

The wall is double brick (old terraced house) but a stone lintel which is
about 8" high
overlaps the the point where the back wall and wall to be removed, join. If
I wanted to install the wall opening lintel above
the stone lintel the job would become too messy.



Why not use a 3ft 4X3 pre-stressed concrete lintel cut in half, so that
you have a 18 inch long, 3 inch tick and four inch wide padstone at each
end?

having a 50mm ovberhang is going to cause problems, not least for the
plasterer!!

It's a price worth paying to achieve a flat wall finish.

Thanks.

Arthur