"Jack" wrote in message
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Watching the new Adam Corolla's new comedy hour on remodeling his
investment
property last night, one of his contractors cut a major structural beam
short by something like 3' at one end. Adam came up with the idea to
sandwich the beam with two pieces of what look like 3/4" plywood and nails
as a fix. I think the inspector is going to flag this. What would be a
real
fix other than getting another beam?

Depending on the loading an engineer would have to make some calculations
and be ready to stand by it. Real trick is getting the city to accept it
with out the enginnering.