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That is the front only and only three times a week.
And that's only 6 months a year, of the other 6, 4 months it's off and the last two months is only twice a week.
Now let me get really off topic?
What's the scoop and poop on the brick lintel?
Front only here too, and not all of it. When I get the other side of the driveway sodded, it will only get worse.
After having the SE here on Friday, Pinki and I pulled the frame from the garage door. The header is twin LVL's, so we can't get much better than that. We pulled a string across the bottom of the beam, and it has deflected about 3/8", so I won't even call that a sag. The lintel has probably moved about 1/4" or so too, so the combination of the two is enough to allow it to crack and shift like it did. The lintel is lagged in on two foot centers, but I think the problem lies in the fact that they shimmed it with std framing shims, so they couldn't really pullit up tight and the lags have deflected down a bit. I'll confirm with the SE tomorrow, but I'm thinking it can be fixed by engineering a lintel reattachment plan involving jacks to raise the lintel back up level, shimming with something more solid than cedar shakes, removing lags and through-bolting everything together. This will require sawing out some brickevery 2 feet to get to the lag screws and maybe even adding a few more bolts.
I think if the lintel can be pulled up real tight to the beam, instead of just hanging on the lags, which have probably drooped down from the force 1/2" out from the beam, I can get it all level again without major destructive work.
We'll see what he says tomorrow.
If it all fals down, I'll need REALLY good shocks to get over the pile of rubble. (Staying on topic herre.)
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