These double garages a built using early elements of the modern techniques we use today, such as steel lintels with timber packing in the web. You can learn a great deal about the longevity of these methods and the materials used from a building like this. We want to know how a building will perform and what condition it will be in 10, 20 or even 100 years.
The first stage of repairs here was to focus on the small, simple repairs to part of the door lining, before moving onto the more structural elements of the construction.
We could then turn our attention to the rotten packing inside the web of the steel lintel. This was done the same way it would be done today on a new build, with the timber driven into the web of the steel to provide fixing points for a finish covering. We chose to change the orientation of the packing: firstly, to give more options for fixing but also to avoid the need to forcibly drive the timber into the web and risk disturbing the masonry.
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