I'm stoning a front porch with natural stone on a my new house, ie inner block / cavity / outter block + Natural stone (approx 6" in thickness). There is a gothic arch in the porch and my question is do you normally order a lintel wide enough to allow the stone to be supported by the lintel as well. Or does anyone have any other ideas.
2007-02-08 05:35:54 · 2 answers · asked by Anonymous in Home & Garden ➔ Decorating & Remodeling
you can order a lintol from a builders merchants to suit any shape and size of arch you could of coarse get a stone lintol but it will cost you
2007-02-09 05:32:22 · answer #1 · answered by boy boy 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
boy boy is right.
my understanding is that you would use a (cheaper and readily available) lintel horizontally above the arch to support the masonry above and the arch itself would be self supporting.
look at castles & cathedrals!
2007-02-10 19:24:29 · answer #2 · answered by rhin0692002 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋