Boot lintels
When concrete has dried it is a dull, light grey colour. Some think that a concrete lintel exposed for its full depth on the external face of brick walls …
Tag: lintel
Composite and non-composite lintels
Composite lintels are stressed by a wire or wires at the centre of their depth and are designed to be used with the brickwork they support which acts as …
Casting lintels
The word ‘precast’ indicates that a concrete lintel has been cast inside a mould, and has been allowed time to set and harden before it is built into the …
Concrete lintels
Since Portland cement was first mass produced towards the end of the nineteenth century it has been practical and economic to cast and use concrete lintels to support brickwork …
Steel lintels
Most loadbearing brick or blockwork walls over openings, where the cavity insulation is continued down to the head of the window or door frame, are supported by steel section …
front lintel
A lintel that supports the outer leaf of a cavity wall.
clipped lintel
A lintel which is intermittently attached to a structural member; the structural member assists the lintel in carrying the load.
doorframe
An assembly built into a wall consisting of two upright members (jambs) and a head (lintel) over the doorway; encloses the doorway and provides support on which to hang the door.
breastsummer, breast beam, bressummer, brestsummer
A horizontal beam which spans a wide opening (a lintel) in an external wall; a summer, 3.
boot lintel
A lintel designed to carry a layer of facing brickwork.