{"id":1671,"date":"2018-06-19T15:35:58","date_gmt":"2018-06-19T14:35:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.the-salutation.co.uk\/blog\/?p=1671"},"modified":"2018-06-20T06:54:40","modified_gmt":"2018-06-20T05:54:40","slug":"snug-bay-lintel-repair","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.the-salutation.co.uk\/blog\/snug-bay-lintel-repair\/","title":{"rendered":"Snug Bay Lintel Repair"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I had been putting off the snug bay window.\u00a0\u00a0 The roof falls towards the house and has leaked for a long time.\u00a0\u00a0 A temporary roof covering went on over a year ago after we knocked off some failed plaster and found wet structural wood behind.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-1673\" src=\"http:\/\/www.the-salutation.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/snug-bay-roof-450x329.jpg\" alt=\"snug-bay-roof\" width=\"450\" height=\"329\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.the-salutation.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/snug-bay-roof-450x329.jpg 450w, https:\/\/www.the-salutation.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/snug-bay-roof-768x561.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.the-salutation.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/snug-bay-roof.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/www.the-salutation.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/snug-bay-roof-624x456.jpg 624w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 450px) 100vw, 450px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The reason I had put off the job was concern about rot in the lintel visible from below.\u00a0\u00a0 Thankfully it was nowhere near as bad as I feared. \u00a0 The bearing surface had rotten causing the lintel to fall by about 10mm,\u00a0 but the rot was localised and the rest of the beam was still in surprisingly good condition.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-1675\" src=\"http:\/\/www.the-salutation.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/beam-end-rot-450x338.jpg\" alt=\"beam-end-rot\" width=\"450\" height=\"338\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.the-salutation.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/beam-end-rot-450x338.jpg 450w, https:\/\/www.the-salutation.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/beam-end-rot-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.the-salutation.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/beam-end-rot.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/www.the-salutation.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/beam-end-rot-624x468.jpg 624w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 450px) 100vw, 450px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>All the beam needed was a new end.\u00a0\u00a0 A steel plate will now act as a bearer for the lintel.\u00a0\u00a0 Next job is to fix the hole that has appeared in the bay roof.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 I&#8217;m planning a new bay roof that falls away from the house.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-1674\" src=\"http:\/\/www.the-salutation.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/steel-plate-450x331.jpg\" alt=\"steel-plate\" width=\"450\" height=\"331\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.the-salutation.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/steel-plate-450x331.jpg 450w, https:\/\/www.the-salutation.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/steel-plate-768x564.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.the-salutation.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/steel-plate.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/www.the-salutation.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/steel-plate-624x459.jpg 624w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 450px) 100vw, 450px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I had been putting off the snug bay window.\u00a0\u00a0 The roof falls towards the house and has leaked for a long time.\u00a0\u00a0 A temporary roof covering went on over a year ago after we knocked off some failed plaster and found wet structural wood behind. The reason I had put off the job was concern [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1671","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-building"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.the-salutation.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1671","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.the-salutation.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.the-salutation.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.the-salutation.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.the-salutation.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1671"}],"version-history":[{"count":24,"href":"https:\/\/www.the-salutation.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1671\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1700,"href":"https:\/\/www.the-salutation.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1671\/revisions\/1700"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.the-salutation.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1671"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.the-salutation.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1671"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.the-salutation.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1671"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}