Posted: Fri Apr 02, 2010 5:42 pm
interesting one.
Picked up some rubble from a mate of mine (builder did the work, and left it all piled up on the drive mixed with carpet, cans and allsorts),
anyway, there were two concrete lintels in the heap.
Most of the rubble was breeze and thermalite, so i tipped that at a local farm as they wanted it for a farm track
But the lintels i kept and crushed them.
the smaller of the two had the usual single strand of twisted rebar through the middle, but the larger, which was about 8' by 5" x 5", had two pieces of rusty angle iron together in the middle.
they looked like old chainlink posts.
this beam was supporting the rear wall over a patio door.
Is it actually structural, and more to the point can you get away with this sort of thing if the building inspector calls?
I thought the way they made by tensioning the inner wire, pouring the concrete into the mould, letting it set, then removing the tension??
Picked up some rubble from a mate of mine (builder did the work, and left it all piled up on the drive mixed with carpet, cans and allsorts),
anyway, there were two concrete lintels in the heap.
Most of the rubble was breeze and thermalite, so i tipped that at a local farm as they wanted it for a farm track
But the lintels i kept and crushed them.
the smaller of the two had the usual single strand of twisted rebar through the middle, but the larger, which was about 8' by 5" x 5", had two pieces of rusty angle iron together in the middle.
they looked like old chainlink posts.
this beam was supporting the rear wall over a patio door.
Is it actually structural, and more to the point can you get away with this sort of thing if the building inspector calls?
I thought the way they made by tensioning the inner wire, pouring the concrete into the mould, letting it set, then removing the tension??
