Hi. I have a complicated requirement for a lintel for above a window that used to be door and an adjacent interior wall that will be removed for a wall opening. (It was discussed here a couple of months ago) In short, I have to install a longer lintel for the wall opening that will rest on the the inner leaf of an external wall plus 3" of the wall to be removed.
|| | window requiring lintel on inner leaf |
+-------interior wall-------------------------------------- will have opening 7ft wide || || So the lintel for the window (that used to be a door) will be about 42" long where the last 4" of one end will have a width of 6" (L shaped).
I have a bag of Hanson ready mixed concrete from B and Q..will this be good?
And if rebar is required, how is it set into the shuttering/box (mold for lintel) I make?
Is this the right thing to do?
Arthur