When a garage door lintel fails it causes the brick wall being supported to sag leaving a noticeable crack right above the garage door.
Lintel over garage door.
Lintellift is a patented system created to be installed either during construction to prevent sagging in the future or after a lintel has begun to sag.
A 3x3x1 4 lintel is not a garage lintel that is a door or window lintel lousy contractor that side opening especially with that amount of dead load above should have had an i beam a double 2x12 bolted together is fine at 16 for a regular detached garage but complete non sense for an attached garage with that much dead load.
While sagging lintels is not a problem that every garage will have many garage lintels that support heavy brickwork and that are expose to environmental condition changes will see the support weaken over time it is.
The old wooden lintel over the garage door has rotten away leaving the brick work over to sag and bow.
The lintellift system is a patented product that ensures garage door lintels or headers won t sag.
The lintellift system fixes this issue by adding support underneath the sagging lintel.
It s in quite a dangerous state.
Lintels are horizontal members which are placed across an opening to support the portion of the structure above it.
First thing to do is hire an acrow bar from andy hire and get that brick work back to it s level position supported.
It is a comprehensive system designed and tested to guarantee a proper and permanent repair of a sagging garage lintel.