new double glazing in 1930s semi

EssexExile

FreeBear said:

EssexExile said:

Any competent double glazing company will be aware of this problem and will be able to fit a lintel if needed.

I can show you an installation that Anglian did fairly recently that should have had a lintel fitted but they didn't bother...

Oh wait, you said competent.

Exactly! I asked a builder friend about one of my windows and he agreed it needed a lintel, I told him which local company I was using and he said they'd know what to do. They did.

TELLIT01

The OPs concern is entirely valid, although lack of a lintel is likely to be much less of a problem with an upper floor window.  There will be a  timber wallplate running around the top of the wall for the rafters and joists to connect to.

As for double glazing companies being aware of the problem of no lintel and will be able to fit one - the entire estate where my parents lived was built in the late 50s and early 60s.  You could see which houses had replaced timber windows with upvc as every one, without exception had sagging brickwork over the larger ground floor windows.

greenface2

My opinion only . I don't think there will be any lintel above the bathroom window but wouldn't be concerned with it . I expect the inner walls having something to take the weight of the roof and there having headers above about 6 max over the small window . headers will be held up inside with no weight above . ( maybe a coarse . unless you tie a chain and allow john deer to pull it out wouldn't worry . they've been changed before about late 70s . also gives you chance to work out the bedroom window which shouldn't be an issue either . keeping john deer in the field . If the bricks move once out . Take them out and put something in there but theyre just holing a few bricks not the roof . (my opinion)  

secla

I guess your right in that upstairs windows wont be carrying any weight.
At some point the wooden frames have been changed as im pretty sure there not 30s wooden frames, theirs a few windows down the side and they have lintels as the side isn't rendered but i still wouldn't be surprised if the front and rear do not have lintels