Windows and Lintels - Ventrolla

Slinky

Thanks for this OP, we're buying a house in Suffolk with sash windows. Have added your thread to my 'useful info' list.

Hope you finally get things sorted, it sounds awful.

Clairebare1

Slinky wrote: »

Thanks for this OP, we're buying a house in Suffolk with sash windows. Have added your thread to my 'useful info' list.

Hope you finally get things sorted, it sounds awful.

You're welcome Slinky, we don't want anyone else to have to put up with what we have put up with.

Maybe with them being named, now we can shame them into getting the work sorted once and for all - we can live in hope!

Good luck with your house move and sash windows (with whatever you decide to do to them).

Claire xx

leveller2911

Any news from Ventrolla Claire?..

Clairebare1

leveller2911 wrote: »

Any news from Ventrolla Claire?..

Hi leveller2911

Unsurprisingly, no, not a dickey bird from Ventrolla. Although, there is an update of sorts, but not from them.

I had a telephone call yesterday from a lovely lady called Clare (good name) because of some feedback I wanted to leave for Ventrolla on Checkatrade. She wanted to check the validity of my comment, so last night I forwarded them a few items (pictures, structural engineers letters). Today it now looks as though Ventrolla have been removed from Checkatrade.

Ta ta for now C xx

leveller2911

Thanks Claire and very interesting Re: Chackatrade............

I did a bit of googling for reviews and they do seem to have some particularly poor reviews in August 2016 and I do wonder if their main problem is a lack of skilled labour.

On their website it says "all their fitters are Ventrolla trained". Now does that mean a new employee with no experience of the trade is put with an experienced fitter for a couple of weeks or so and then sent out on their own to carry out work or are they actually trained for a few months?.

Keep us posted and thanks again.............. regards Leveller

prosaver

I dont think you need a lintle , because there's a arch which supports the bricks.

leveller2911

prosaver wrote: »

I dont think you need a lintle , because there's a arch which supports the bricks.

A Brick arch will support the weight above it on the outside skin but Claires timber lintels were on the inside and holding up the weight above which can be brickwork walls and/or floor joists of the floor above and all the associated weight of furniture,people,beds, stud walls etc etc etc. There can be literally tons of weight being held up by a timber lintel..

IIRC from my college days a 1m length of 2x2 notless pine stood on end can support somewhere in the region of 1.5 tons.

edit: The photo in Steve's post #4 shows a brick arch (which isn't Claires) but the box frame window sits behind the outside skin of brickwork and the inside wall/skin would usually have a timber lintel to support the weight above. Brick arches are very strong and can take a lot of weight and are a really nice feature

Clairebare1

prosaver wrote: »

I dont think you need a lintle , because there's a arch which supports the bricks.

Do you work for Ventrolla!!

leveller2911

Clairebare1 wrote: »

Do you work for Ventrolla!!

As a fitter?..................:rotfl:

No offence Prosaver ,just having a giggle and not at your expense....:beer:

prosaver

leveller2911 wrote: »

As a fitter?..................:rotfl:

No offence Prosaver ,just having a giggle and not at your expense....:beer:

No probs:beer:
Anyway read all the post and it seems they did take out a lintel .