Helical Systems

Helical systems provide a quick and easy-to-fit solution when dealing with some common structral failures.

Lintel failure

Lintel failure is very common and the traditional method would be to take the arch or lintel out of situ and rebuild the arch and brick work, making this an expensive and time consuming project. Instead of doing that, we can come along and provide you with a specification to install a helical masonry beam which will take the loadings away from the arch and spread them either side, as long as it's been installed correctly. We can then put some helical cemties into the arch to stop further movement, preventing the need to take the arch down and rebuild. A small repair like a 2m wide opening would only take a morning to complete with very little preparation material needed.

Thermal movement

This is the expansion and contraction of materials due to change in temperature. Thermal movement varies considerably through the different building materials available and there are many ways to repair such cracks, we can use Helical crack stitches to repair the cracks or if we have a long unbroken block of masonry we can install movement joints to allow the natural movement of the material.