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SWMBO suggested I make a form and pour these. I kinda laughed her out of the room. Is it feasible? I'd happily make a nice plywood form and pour it with a super-strong mix and rebar in it. These aren't carrying a lot in all honesty. Do-able?! I could deal with the cavity wall one having a "soffit cover", but the single skin ones are the challenge. Turns out the nice fair-faced concrete option will cost me £300, £200 of that is "haulage".

I've found a "fair-faced" concrete lintel option, I'm just waiting for a price. Hoping I can use those for the "internal" positions, I actually need 2 of those! For the "external" cavity position, perhaps I'll use a Catnic lintel and soldier course bricks?! I can't buy a fair-faced lintel in the width I'd need to bridge the whole lot.

Ah OK. Well, the Car Port is open-fronted and is linked to the house only with an open walkway (roofed). Thanks for your input.

The Car Port is indirectly attached to the house, but is aesthetically part of it. I'm thinking of using a conventional "Catnic" lintel for the cavity lintel and then seeking or having made a cover-plate for the soffit face of it. I may end up using a "Fair Faced" concrete lintel for the single skin and if I'm not totally happy with the appearance, I could paint it or cover it I guess. I just wanted to check there isn't a more obvious solution that I've missed!

I need 2 lintels for walls that will be facing brick both sides. One is in single skin brickwork, the other has a 265mm cavity. They are open doorways in my Car Port, so they will not be rendered or plastered and won't be lined or have doors. Are fair-faced Concrete lintels the best bet here? I would use a more conventional cavity lintel for the 265mm position, but it'd need to have a nice smooth underside. Any suggestions?

Ah, so they let you pay with Credit Card OK then? I was planning to ask this tomorrow.

I think that both Norrsken and RK Doors are quite reputable, but the gut-wrenching experience with our Zinc Roof has left us a bit scarred!

Yes, we'll always push for that where possible. But what incentive do companies have to provide top service if they've already been paid in full?

We're dealing with Norrsken and RK Doors at the moment. Both want full payment of the contract balance prior to release of the products for delivery and installation. Is this normal? I feel a little uncomfortable with that. ID System (Sunflex) allow us to retain 10% for payment upon completion. What has been your experience?

Thanks for this. Helpful. So the steel profile is seen from the ground I assume? Don't suppose you took any pics of it in progress?

I'm not experienced at all with this type of roof, so any/all feedback is appreciated. I guess the drip edge could be turned back up on the inside and fixed to the underneath of the 40x70 timber, they're used to that detail with Zinc roofing if I was to get trims done by a Zinc installer. But how to seal it to the Single-Ply on top? Architect seems to show another membrane.

We're in the process of detailing our whole house roof with a Sika single-ply membrane. We'd like a nice kerb-edge trim (ideally Zinc/Alu), but how would this be detailed if fitted after the membrane? Is this a normal thing to do? I've not approached an installer yet, maybe they'll know the answer, but asking you good chaps! If anyone has done similar, pics would be welcome.

Thanks for your detailed reply @Gus Potter. What is it about the detail that makes it harder to secure the door? As a side-note, I've had loads of trouble with Architects and in fact we are now on our third. With our roofing disaster aside, professional services has definitely been by far the biggest stressor in the project so far. This is all about structural support for the door above everything else. The concrete core simply is not wide enough to provide support for the whole depth of the profile, this is how to bring this in line with what ID Systems/Sunflex want. I've got a large projecting Oriel Window and the detailing on that eclipses this by a long way, I'm struggling there too.

The packers digging into the ICF has been my concern, though I'm glad you haven't run into any post-installation problems. My reveal detailing needs to be very precise due to the bespoke Aluminium flashings I'm having made. I can't really stand to add 6mm to the base of every window, unless I had prepared for it in advance by rasping the thresholds down. I'm eager to see what other ICF'ers have done.

It's funny how things that feel like big decisions right now pale into insignificance in the end.