Following on from my post "Opening a wall and installing a lintel" I've decided to offer my builder one more chance of turning up!!
Anyway I phoned building control to enquire if they needed to inspect the work in progress. They told me photographs would be okay as long as I included some sort of measure in the pictures to show how far the lintel was in!!
Anyone know what I should be photographing? Apart from the lintel obviously!!
cheers Stuart.
Bloke holding a measuring tape next to it.
Owain
If the wall is standard bricks or blocks and hasn't been plastered yet then a photo (ideally taken square on) showing the insert depth and a few blocks should be fine. You could quote the block height and width just for clarity.
Sounds like BC would like a tape measure in the picture showing the distance the lintel is in.
Do you get a discount on the BC fee if a BC officer doesn't actually make a site visit?
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Thanks. Its a cavity wall so I take it a picture of the inner lintel won't be required.
That's a good point ;o) Although in their defence we told them it might be getting done over the weekend!
That's a new one on me! Is this common practice nowadays?
David
================================== If you're using standard 4" x 3" (70mm x 100mm) lintels they probably want a view of the size of the 'bearings' - i.e. the length of the lintel which sits on the supporting brickwork at each end, which should be a minimum of 150mm / 6" each end.
Cic.
Surely the bricks would show that?
Blimey !,
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