Handyman Property Service. Helping to keep your properties and homes well maintained. Chris at Ashtons Handyman services prides himself on commitment to provide a professional and speedy service, whilst maintaining the highest quality of work. Clean, tidy and respectable. Decorating and plastering home improvements carried out. Service to home owners and landlords in Stockton on Tees in Teesside areas in the North East.Property Improvements from Plastering to Flat Pack assembly Handyman Services.
The old wooden lintel over the garage door has rotten away leaving the brick work over to sag and bow. It’s in quite a dangerous state.
First thing to do is hire an acrow bar, from Andy Hire, and get that brick work back to it’s level position & supported.
Having cleared out the old rotten lintel, I took the measurements for new concrete & wooden lintels, the wooden to sit behind the concrete one under the second course of bricks and over the garage door frame. I used wood so that I can screw the door frame back under to straighten.
Both lintels had to cut down to size.
Ashtons Handyman Services
Ashtons Handyman Services
Time to fit the lintels into place, I use slate to pack under, at the ends, and above to the brick work so I can get cement into the gap. It meant lifting the bricks further, so cranked up the acrow.
Ashtons Handyman Services
Ashtons Handyman Services
Ashtons Handyman Services
All looking good. Time to remove the acrow and get cement in. I use a method to get the cement into the space’s by using a builders bag and a sloppy mix, a bit like funneling icing onto a cake.
All good. Time to clear up and the brush off the drying cement.