Just asking Juan. I would like you to be included here. What do you see?
Its not a wood framed wall
It does look like there is a 2x8 placed on the far exterior edge of that empty space. Are you saying Juan that what looks like wood at the exterior edge of the empty space is actually the backside of those reddish decorative mantels over the windows?
The window framing on the left blocks to much information. Assessment is default at best with these photos.
hard to insure a guilty hypotheses IMO.
It is a mess and I would be referring this to a GC from what I see.
The left top portion of the suspect 6"x6" header beam is notched. You can not see the bearing.
The 6"x6" is now a 4"x4" with poor bearing on the left and suspect beam header deflection.
The flooring above will or is dropped.
Ether/or it can be ungraded and not a large expense to stiffen the window openings.
SUSPECT: The wall openings do not have proper header beam for the spanned opening for the windows.
RECOMMEND:A licensed RBQ contractor or GC evaluate and repair or upgrade the wall opening for the right material to use to span the opening for the windows.
LIMITATION: window frames blocked much out the suspect defects in question.
I would say about $1000 to $1300 per opening. That is to span and install what is needed.
A contingency fund of up to 50% of the contract should be set aside encase unseen issues arises.
NOTE; A lintel Bob would be for a veneer. This is a wall.
What a piece of crap!
Actually I corrected myself but see lintels with CMU type and split blocks all the time.
Just not in this case .
Not sure this would do any good as the whole wall needs insulated but this is what I would recommend here.
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I know this has been mentioned before but you can see it is recognized by EERE.
http://apps1.eere.energy.gov/buildings/publications/pdfs/building_america/26449.pdf
What say you Juan? 
I’m still curious.
And so am I. 
That’s about how I see it as well.
If that’s 8-8 CMU … that’s gotta be more than siding… dunno.
I’m really not sure what you guys are seeing. Not your fault though. The pics are horrible. You can see the bottom of the top plate though. There’s nothing under it.
There is a piece of wood bearing on CMU but I think it’s function is to hold the window in place.
Yes the wood you see on the inside is from the wood on the outside.
I already wrote the report. The parge coating had cracks around all the windows. I deferred it out.
That would be the header, or as Marcel called it “make shift header”.
He pointed at blank space…
It’s not taking any weight from above and distributing it so its not really heading anything.
The peice of wood bearing on the CMU is just there the give the top of the window something to attach too.
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“Header supporting top plate” is the piece of wood bearing on CMU’s.
