Lintel repair in Dallas by Champion Brick Repair — the steel above your garage door and windows carries the brick over every opening, and when it rusts and sags, the brick tells you. We fix it permanently, including LintelLOCK installs, backed for life. Call (254) 723-5040.
Every opening in a brick wall — the garage door, the windows, the front door — has a steel lintel hidden above it, carrying the weight of the brick above so the wall can span the hole. Lintel repair in Dallas is some of the most-misdiagnosed work in masonry, because the lintel itself is buried. What you see is the evidence: brick sagging in a shallow curve over the garage, a stair-step crack climbing from a window corner, rust stains bleeding down the face, a mortar joint above the opening that has opened to a wedge. Homeowners get told to repoint the crack. The crack is the symptom. The rusting, expanding, sagging steel underneath is the disease, and repointing over it just buys the crack a few seasons to come back wider.
Champion Brick Repair handles lintel repair across Dallas — Lakewood, Lake Highlands, the M Streets, Preston Hollow, North Dallas, Oak Cliff, and the corridors along US-75, the Dallas North Tollway, and LBJ — and we start every job by proving the cause before quoting the cure.
Steel rusts. A lintel that was painted once at install sits in a wall that breathes moisture for decades, and rust occupies more space than the steel it came from — up to several times the volume. That expansion, called rust jacking, lifts and pushes the brick above the opening while the steel simultaneously loses the strength to carry it, so you get push and sag at the same time. Dallas adds two accelerators: Blackland Prairie clay that swells and shrinks with the seasons and racks the wall around the opening, and wide daily temperature swings that work every joint. Garage lintels suffer most because the span is longest — sixteen feet or more of steel carrying a gable of brick — and because the garage is where the flashing and weep details are most often skipped.
Not every lintel needs to come out. Where the steel has section left and the problem is rotation and early sag, our LintelLOCK system mechanically locks and reinforces the existing lintel and re-supports the brick — see the LintelLOCK page for how it works — without tearing the whole opening apart. Where the steel is rusted through, undersized for the span, or was never properly flashed, the right answer is full lintel replacement: shoring the brick, removing the failed steel, installing a new galvanized or properly coated lintel with correct bearing, flashing, and weeps, then relaying the brick to match. We will tell you which one your house needs and show you the steel that proves it. What we will not do is sell you a cosmetic repoint as a lintel repair.
Brick dipping or bowing above the garage door. The garage door itself binding, or a gap at the top corners that was not there before. Diagonal cracks from the corners of windows. Rust-colored staining on brick or mortar below an opening. A horizontal crack running the length of the opening at the lintel line. Brick that has shifted enough to daylight a joint. Send a straight-on photo of the opening to (254) 723-5040 — lintel failure reads clearly in a good photo, and the estimate is free.
A new lintel installed the same un-flashed way the old one was will rust on the same schedule. Every Champion lintel job addresses the full detail set: bearing length on sound masonry, flashing that actually directs water out of the wall, weep paths left open, and mortar matched with our custom blending so the relaid brick disappears into the wall. That is the difference between lintel repair in Dallas that lasts and a repair that is a down payment on the next one.
Photo first. In-person assessment with the opening measured and the sag documented. A written scope that names repair, reinforcement, or replacement and says why. Shoring before anything is disturbed, the steel work done, brick relaid and matched, joints tooled, site cleaned. Backed for life. If the brick over your garage or windows is moving, call Champion Brick Repair at (254) 723-5040 and get the cause, not a patch.
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