Draughts in Bideford: structural openings
Lintels, loads and the opening itself in Bideford. If we find a structural cause we will tell you plainly rather than fit around it.
If we find a structural cause we will tell you plainly rather than fit around it.
The opening is a structural element. A lintel carries the masonry above it, and where that lintel has corroded, deflected or was never adequate, the symptoms show up in the frame below long before anyone looks upward.
Lintels, loads and the opening itself in Bideford
The opening is a structural element. A lintel carries the masonry above it, and where that lintel has corroded, deflected or was never adequate, the symptoms show up in the frame below long before anyone looks upward.
Tell-tale signs are stepped cracking above a corner, a consistent taper across the head, and a fault that returns after being adjusted. Adjusting the moving part repeatedly is a strong hint that the hole, not the part, is the problem.
Where the structure is implicated we say so and stop. Structural remediation is a different trade and a different design responsibility, and it has to happen before anything is fitted into that opening.
Draughts Bideford: structural openings
Because adjustment cannot correct an opening that is still moving. A recurring fault after correct adjustment points at the structure above or around it.
Draughts Bideford: structural openings
Where the structure is implicated we say so and stop. Structural remediation is a different trade and a different design responsibility, and it has to happen before anything is fitted into that opening.
structural openings decision path for Draughts in Bideford
Tell-tale signs are stepped cracking above a corner, a consistent taper across the head, and a fault that returns after being adjusted. Adjusting the moving part repeatedly is a strong hint that the hole, not the part, is the problem.
Draughts Bideford: structural openings
- Draughts in Bideford: Why has the same fault come back after adjustment? — what matters for quayside Georgian houses?
- Because adjustment cannot correct an opening that is still moving. A recurring fault after correct adjustment points at the structure above or around it.
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