🧱🔧 Cracked or sagging brick lintel? Mark McCullough demonstrates how to repair it: | This Old House

Masonry beam and pins. Quite common for timber windows to be removed and plastic ones installed. These you can find struggle to open because of the weight from the wall above. Basically the timber ones acted like a lintel and the plastic ones like to bow, because of the weight. In fairness on a rendered and plastered house it can be difficult to work out but when you take the window out and see bricks, you know there is no lintel…. This is an option of repair, where we install stainless steel ba