My diy way to screw brackets into cement same as brick.
Opening hole in concrete wall.
With the intended position of the lintel marked on the wall carefully use an angle grinder or masonry saw to cut away the mortar.
After hearing that i seriously considered just gluing a piece of plywood over it and calling it a day.
Steel reinforcing bar around openings is a critical structural element of cast in place concrete walls whether they are built with removable forms or insulating concrete forms icfs.
A few strategically placed boards and a bit of ingenuity cemented this proble.
Steel lintels in concrete block walls are placed in the mortar between blocks so the first step will be opening a space for the lintel itself.
I recently had a bee problem where a colony took up residence inside the concrete wall of my house.
We have since taken care of that issue but in order to do that the contractor had to bust 4 5 baseball to softball size holes in the exterior walls.
Correct placement of the rebar helps prevent the concrete around openings from cracking from structural loads or shrinkage.
Once inside the wall moisture.
In addition to being an eyesore a hole in an exterior concrete wall of your home creates a point of weakness in the structure that can allow moisture to penetrate.
To provide an opening in it it is necessary to transfer the weight of the load above this new opening to the sections of wall either side by means of a lintel.
The guys at home depot had a lot of fun lamenting the fact that the hole existed to begin with and then suggested that i build a mold on one side of the wall and fill it in with a pour of concrete.
A solution was needed as subsoil poured in through a breach in a basement wall.
How to drill into concrete to hang a tv shelves racks etc.