Steel Lintel Repair
Rusting steel above your windows replaced before it lifts the brick any further. This one gets worse and more expensive every year you wait.
This is work we self-perform, week in and week out. If it is on your notice, it is on our schedule.
How the work goes
- 1The opening shored and the masonry above the failed lintel removed carefully
- 2Steel cut out and replaced, correctly sized and properly bearing
- 3Masonry rebuilt over it with brick matched to yours
- 4Primed, sealed and flashed so the new steel does not repeat the last one
What owners worry about first
Handled now, this is a defined job with a defined price. That stops being true once the surrounding wall has to come apart too.
Did this come off a violation notice?
Then read the violation page instead. It covers what the inspector was looking at, what it costs you to wait, and what the department needs to see before the item closes.
"Repair lintels" →Usually done at the same time
The joints get ground out and repointed to match, so the wall stops shedding mortar and the inspector stops writing it up.
Cracked and missing brick swapped for units that match yours, so the repair disappears instead of announcing itself.
The wall above your roof line made solid again, so nothing is loose over the sidewalk and water stops entering the top of the building.
The most weather-beaten masonry you own, rebuilt, capped and made watertight so it stops feeding damage into the rest of the wall.
The masonry under your windows repaired and pitched properly, which is the cheapest way to stop water getting into the wall.
The details that make a Chicago greystone or two-flat worth what it is worth, stabilised and restored instead of stripped off.
Find out what this actually costs.
A quick call, then we come out and price every item on the notice in person. Free, and you are under no obligation to use us.
Licensed and insured. A person answers, Monday to Saturday.