Advice for opening up garage door

[MattD1]

Hi all. 

I have a quick question. I’m opening up my single garage door to fit a set of patio doors. 

It’s a single skin wall but I’m a bit worried about these pillars. There’s 1 either side of the door at present but I need to cut one out to open the door up. 

Looks like it’s breeze block laid flat.

Can anyone tell me if it’s safe to do so from the picture before I take the stihl saw to it 😂

The roof is a corrugated roof and there’s a timber ring beam running round the wall that the roof fixes to. 

I’m opening it up approx 500mm, just a bit more than the pillar. 

Thanks very much

[ProDave]

Can we see a picture zoomed out a bit for context.

 

There is some dodgy wiring there.

[MattD1]

Hiya Dave. Yes I’m a sparky by trade and the wiring is as it was when we moved in. There’s currently no power to the garage 👍

 

Will upload a picture now. 
 

Thanks

[Iceverge]

1 hour ago, MattD1 said:

Hi all. 

I have a quick question. I’m opening up my single garage door to fit a set of patio doors. 

It’s a single skin wall but I’m a bit worried about these pillars. There’s 1 either side of the door at present but I need to cut one out to open the door up. 

Looks like it’s breeze block laid flat.

Can anyone tell me if it’s safe to do so from the picture before I take the stihl saw to it 😂

The roof is a corrugated roof and there’s a timber ring beam running round the wall that the roof fixes to. 

I’m opening it up approx 500mm, just a bit more than the pillar. 

Thanks very much

 

 

The timber intel over the door looks to stop about 150mm over the pillar. 

 

That would need to be propped removed and extended before hacking the pillar done. 

 

More pics the better. Show outside too. 

[MattD1]

57 minutes ago, Iceverge said:

 

 

The timber intel over the door looks to stop about 150mm over the pillar. 

 

That would need to be propped removed and extended before hacking the pillar done. 

 

More pics the better. Show outside too. 

Thanks bud. 
 

I’ve attached a couple more pictures but there’s no lights and it’s a bit of a mess in there at the minute so hard to get anything decent. 
 

The picture of the outside, you can see the black marks on the wall for the new proposed opening. 
 

Inside has these pillars. 
 

I was thinking could I prop up the timber lintel as you suggested and build a new pillar at the end of the new opening ?so it will be the same as it is now just wider apart, along with a longer timber lintel ? 
 

Thanks again guys 👍

[ProDave]

The lintel that squares off the door opening is not really doing anything structural. Nothing will fall down if you take that down.

 

The piers are usual construction at intervals on a single brick wall.  I would suggest whichever way you widen the opening which will mean taking down one of the piers, you will need to build a new pier at the other side of the new opening.

 

Then you can span a new lintel between the new piers over the opening.

 

Post the dimensions of that timber supporting the roof, and the proposed width of the new opening, and one of the SE's on here will hopefully advise if it is okay as it is to span that distance or will need strengthening.

 

[MattD1]

6 hours ago, ProDave said:

The lintel that squares off the door opening is not really doing anything structural. Nothing will fall down if you take that down.

 

The piers are usual construction at intervals on a single brick wall.  I would suggest whichever way you widen the opening which will mean taking down one of the piers, you will need to build a new pier at the other side of the new opening.

 

Then you can span a new lintel between the new piers over the opening.

 

Post the dimensions of that timber supporting the roof, and the proposed width of the new opening, and one of the SE's on here will hopefully advise if it is okay as it is to span that distance or will need strengthening.

 

Thanks Dave. 
 

I’ll get the measurements today. 
 

Again, appreciate the help 👍