What affects the cost of arch and lintel repair
The cost of arch and lintel repair depends on how many openings are affected, whether it’s a brick arch or a lintel, and whether the lintel can be reinforced in place or has to be replaced.
One cracked arch over a front window is a smaller job than every opening along the side of a two-storey home. Each one needs its bed joints cut, HelicalBar™ bonded in — following the curve of an arch, or cut into slots across a concrete or angle-iron lintel — and the mortar pointed to match. More openings, more bars, more time. That's why the approximate cost sits between $3,000 and $9,000. Learn how the three repair methods differ.
Whether the lintel can stay is the biggest single factor. Most can: a rusted or sagging steel lintel, a cracked concrete one or a slipping arch is reinforced where it sits, usually in a day. A lintel that has rusted through or rotted past carrying any load has to come out — the brickwork above is propped, the old lintel cut out, a new one installed and the wall made good. That's the top of the range. If subsidence moved the wall in the first place, the foundation is quoted with it as one fixed price.
Dismantling an arch or tearing out a wall to replace a lintel is the expensive way — weeks of work, scaffolding, bricklayers, and often a home you can't live in while it happens. HelicalBar™ reinforcement is a fraction of that, nothing comes down, and you stay at home while we work.