60’s bungalow, perfect but no lintels!

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I’m buying my next house and found ‘the one’.

L3 survey came back today and said that the house has no lintels over the windows.

Apparently, they were built like that and the wooden window frames acted as support. But windows were replaced with upvc ones, so no real support anymore. The windows are in very good condition and so far, so is the brick work.

I know lintels can be replaced (put in) or a metal support Catnic or Helifix.

Has anyone experienced this and how easy was it/cost? Thank you, all advice appreciated.

We recently had ours done in a 60s house too. Only three windows needed doing though, strangely! We only found out when the windows company came to measure. Two windows are a metre wide and one is half a metre. Angle irons needed, took a full day to do those three with scaffolding. They were going to charge £2000! We got a local guy to do it for £700. So it depends who you get and how many windows!

Thanks, was that the total cost or for each?

I have the same issue. The windows are okay but I have a 3 meter wide patio sliding door that needs support once the wooden frame is taken out. The cost to add a lintel for that one is 1k. It really needs replacing though