Builders and homeowners across Birmingham and the wider Midlands are being encouraged by Gilmore Building Supplies to plan ...

From the early 60s to the late 90s, we seemed to lose the art of making decorative window and door openings. Prior to that time these openings would have at least a carved flat stone lintel, or an ...

Correct specification and installation is critical to the performance of a steel lintel. This CPD, sponsored by Catnic, outlines the main points to consider UBM’s CPD distance-learning programme is ...

I posted a few weeks ago about leaking windows and the problem is, as suggested, that the windows do not have sufficient flashing. Turns out they don’t have ANY flashing (gut reno 3.5 years ago).

Q: The concrete lintel over one of our front windows has cracked. The house was built in 1989 and has wood framing, with brick facing on only the front of the house. We have been unable to find anyone ...