A lintel is a piece of steel that sits above a doorway, window frame or other opening, which supports the masonry above it. Lintels come in a variety of shapes; an 'L' shape, an 'I' shape and a 'C ...

Q: The concrete lintel over one of our front windows has cracked. The house was built in 1989 and has wood framing, with brick facing on only the front of the house. We have been unable to find ...

The brick lintel spans across the bay, so if water is making its way in, it has nowhere to go but to the drywall ceiling in the kitchen. Before I dig into this and hire contractors, I’d like ...

House builders employed lintels [Figure 5] as a way of deflecting the weight, or load away from the top of the window frames and doors and distribute the weight toward and down the walls. Before 1830 ...

The brick lintel spans across the bay, so if water is making its way in, it has nowhere to go but to the drywall ceiling in the kitchen. Before I dig into this and hire contractors, I’d like ...

The limestone, which is pinned back to these moments in the structure of the building, acts as a modified custom brick lintel to support the masonry veneer. Another key detail of the project is ...

The imposed load acting on lintels arises from one or a combination of masonry load, floor load and roof load. For traditional cavity wall constructions, the floor and roof are generally supported off ...