{"id":864,"date":"2015-06-17T17:33:14","date_gmt":"2015-06-17T16:33:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.the-salutation.co.uk\/blog\/?p=864"},"modified":"2020-04-28T17:56:32","modified_gmt":"2020-04-28T16:56:32","slug":"re-building-a-window-arch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.the-salutation.co.uk\/blog\/re-building-a-window-arch\/","title":{"rendered":"Re-building a Window Arch"},"content":{"rendered":"

I’ve not posted much for a week as I’ve been doing boring stuff, mostly pointing.\u00a0 I want to get most of the scaffolding down soon and it’s mostly pointing holding that up.\u00a0 I can manage about two square metres a day of pointing when it’s just wall, but tidying up 20th century bodging (cement or carnage from the boiler installing muppet) slows progress,<\/p>\n

Today I was sorting out Georgian bodging and a loose arch above the north window. It is a very shallow arch and the pointing had eroded badly on the vertical joins causing it to come loose.<\/p>\n

\"failing-arch\"<\/a><\/p>\n

The wood board is a former for the new arch supported from the window sill by 2×2. \u00a0 It’s set at a lower level to catch any bricks that might fall when I remove the arch.\u00a0 After raising I screwed it to the window frame to hold it in place.<\/p>\n

I did a trial fit of the bricks to figure out the spacing, then marked the joint positions on the board to make sure I had enough room for a brick when I got to the middle.<\/p>\n

\"starting-arch\"<\/a><\/p>\n

The arch only really holds itself up.\u00a0 There is a wooden lintel holding up the inner wall, then a course of header bricks bridging over the arch to help support the outer wall.<\/p>\n

The joints are tight at the bottom of the arch.\u00a0 I built the arch with a finer sharp sand and have recessed the joints a little to allow pointing with sand that matches the rest of the gable.<\/p>\n

\"first-course-arch\"<\/a><\/p>\n

The arch is finished bar pointing.\u00a0 Another photo soon unless the wall falls down or I get distracted and start doing something else.<\/p>\n

Several weeks later it looks like it has always been there.\u00a0\u00a0 I’ve also replaced the silicone sealant around the window with lime mortar, though I will also need to replace the window with a sash for building regs fire egress.<\/p>\n

\"finished-arch\"<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I’ve not posted much for a week as I’ve been doing boring stuff, mostly pointing.\u00a0 I want to get most of the scaffolding down soon and it’s mostly pointing holding that up.\u00a0 I can manage about two square metres a day of pointing when it’s just wall, but tidying up 20th century bodging (cement or […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-864","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-building","category-windows"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.the-salutation.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/864","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=864"}],"version-history":[{"count":32,"href":"https:\/\/www.the-salutation.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/864\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1864,"href":"https:\/\/www.the-salutation.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/864\/revisions\/1864"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.the-salutation.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=864"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.the-salutation.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=864"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.the-salutation.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=864"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}