Lintel Over Garage Door

Lintels are horizontal members which are placed across an opening to support the portion of the structure above it.

Lintel over garage door.

The house has brick front and two car garage. While sagging lintels is not a problem that every garage will have many garage lintels that support heavy brickwork and that are expose to environmental condition changes will see the support weaken over time it is. The function of a lintel is the same as a. Lintellift is a patented system created to be installed either during construction to prevent sagging in the future or after a lintel has begun to sag.

The old wooden lintel over the garage door has rotten away leaving the brick work over to sag and bow. When a garage door lintel fails it causes the brick wall being supported to sag leaving a noticeable crack right above the garage door. First thing to do is hire an acrow bar from andy hire and get that brick work back to it s level position supported. A 3x3x1 4 lintel is not a garage lintel that is a door or window lintel lousy contractor that side opening especially with that amount of dead load above should have had an i beam a double 2x12 bolted together is fine at 16 for a regular detached garage but complete non sense for an attached garage with that much dead load.

The lintellift system fixes this issue by adding support underneath the sagging lintel. The inspector noticed that a steel plate acting as lintel beam is running over the garage door to support the brick layer above but it ended up 3.