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Old 12-25-2024, 06:49 AM
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Originally Posted by villagetinker View Post
My first thought would be to contact the county building department to find out how involved this would be. IMHO if (big if) you are not making the opening wider you can probably get away with it, however if you are planning to widen the opening this will be much more complicated. I have no idea of the construction details for the cast type construction, but I suspect replacing the lintel will be very messy, complicated, and expensive.
Especially if is post cured tensioning can’t cut any of those tensioning cables.