Q: The concrete lintel over one of our front windows has cracked. The house was built in 1989 and has wood framing, with brick facing on only the front of the house. We have been unable to find anyone ...

I posted a few weeks ago about leaking windows and the problem is, as suggested, that the windows do not have sufficient flashing. Turns out they don’t have ANY flashing (gut reno 3.5 years ago).

Mangaluru: Two persons died on the spot after a huge concrete lintel of an old house collapsed when it was being demolished using an earthmover machine near Jail Road in Karangalpady in the city on ...

The three-storey building has a cast in situ concrete frame with a load-bearing outer leaf of locally made bricks, an inner leaf of blockwork, and a steel roof structure. Bricks and clay products – ...