Sticking windows in Bournemouth: structural openings
Lintels, loads and the opening itself in Bournemouth. 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.
Sticking windows Bournemouth: 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.
Sticking windows Bournemouth: 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.
Lintels, loads and the opening itself in Bournemouth
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.
Sticking windows Bournemouth: structural openings
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- Because adjustment cannot correct an opening that is still moving. A recurring fault after correct adjustment points at the structure above or around it.
structural openings decision path for Sticking windows in Bournemouth
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.
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