Just wondering if anybody knows at what point a brick arch no longer requires a steel lintel and becomes a structural brick arch.
I have a garage door opening 16 feet wide (please no input on header sizes) that will have brick veneer around it including a gable ended roof to a height of 21 feet. On each side is 1'-9" wide of brick horizontally up the sides of the garage door opening until we have the beginnings of the arch (single brick soldier course), which is 7 feet high. At the max. height of the arch is 8 feet high. Very low radius. So I was just wondering at what point do we go from needing a steel lintel to not needing one. It looks like it would require a steel lintel.
I have a garage door opening 16 feet wide (please no input on header sizes) that will have brick veneer around it including a gable ended roof to a height of 21 feet. On each side is 1'-9" wide of brick horizontally up the sides of the garage door opening until we have the beginnings of the arch (single brick soldier course), which is 7 feet high. At the max. height of the arch is 8 feet high. Very low radius. So I was just wondering at what point do we go from needing a steel lintel to not needing one. It looks like it would require a steel lintel.