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Old 05-15-2008, 10:51 PM
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Default Re: Gauge of lintels in block stand?

Here's a clever idea from JED:



Cutting out sections of block divider, and inserting rebar for a reinforced lintel. Of course you have to support the span from below when you set it up, and fill it with concrete. A slightly more expensive idea is to buy a pre-cast concrete lintel to span the gap. You could do like I did, and make a form and build a masonry arch.

Or as christo says, you could just put an extra piece of rebar in the front of the slab, and forgo the lintel entirely.
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