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I would some comments on the following joist situation:

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Thanks


After you shoot the plumber and the buildng inspector.....

Bear in mind I've been known to wear a belt and suspenders together, so this
may be overkill, but...

I'd use 4 feet of 2" X "whatever" on each side of the cut on both sides of
the damaged joist to "shim" out the joust, so that I culd properly "sister"
the joist without the "sisters" themselves hitting the pipe. . I'd use a
pnematic palm nailer to nail those in.

Then I'd put an 8' long sister on each side, tack nail that in to the
"shims" with th palm nailer, and then seriously bolt the whole sebang
together through all five layers of the 2" x whatever material. I'd use a
lot of bolts.

--
Jim McLaughlin

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