Today me & nigel were fitting my front door after fairly easily fitting the back door last weekend. I should of known it wouldn't be that simple twice. We started just after 8 this morning, and removed the old door and frame. That's when we started to notice the problems!!
There was no lintel above the door to holdup the inside layer of bricks up, they were just floating and had been sort of held up by the wooden door frame. To the side of the door it was also bodged together, there were barely any bricks to fix a frame to. It had just been filled up with cement, even the bag from the cement had been stuffed into the wall to fill the void. We had to spend ages destroying a lot of the brickwork (or rather cement work). Then built it all back up, so we could then fit a lintel to support all the brickwork above. All of this took a very long time :-(
It also caused another headache. I couldn't fit the door in properly because we need the cement to go off. Which will probably take a couple of days. We have managed to fit the door in temporarily but not properly. It will be a couple of days before we can fix the door frame into the brickwork correctly. Hopefully that will be the easy part (gonna regret saying that). I'm knackered now mixing cement by hand all day and carrying lintels, door frames, bricks and stuff about.
Hopefully gonna do a few easier jobs tomorrow, I hope. Hopefully I will remember to take a few pictures as well.
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