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Joists cut, had to post this.

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#1 · (Edited)
I went and looked at a house yesterday where he needs several things done. The last thing he showed me was in the only downstairs room, the garage. In order to install a garage door opener some one had cut the floor joists to the living room above the garage right down the middle to put up the center track for the opener. The joists are notched all the way though to the floor, I couldn't believe it, I have seen some hair-brained ideas before and this is at the top.

I asked him to go upstairs and walk around the living room, he was up there a few seconds and I yelled OK stop now. Also it looks as if the floor joists were cut down in size a while back to put in a garage door without an opener, the red arrow and outline of a joist in the pic shows what I mean. The through cuts for the opener were fairly recent. It is an Overhead Door opener, surely they didn't do this!

I told him the door needs to be removed and install sister joists the original size from wall to wall to fix this and getting like a roll up garage door installed.

My pictures aren't showing for some reason, you can see it here - https://photos.app.goo.gl/6GVJR50NbFExxug63
 
#2 ·
Your picture didn't come up....

This what happens when people hire hacks who don't know any better and they do s^*t like this and when you read in the paper or the news people wonder why the floor collapsed and people end up a floor below with broken limbs. Thank God this was not the case.

I've have seen this done by hacks before and not on one occasion... one job it was a finished basement they hung drop ceiling too high and couldn't fit 2'x4' fluorescent lights so they cut the floor joists to fit the lights.
 
#6 ·
I just took a second look at that picture. The numnutz used door hardware lags to attach that new blocking.

So I'm pretty damned sure it was a contractor, I'm pretty damned sure it was a 1009 sub for a big box store, and I'm pretty damned sure that big box store is going to be on the hook for some major coin.

God Almighty!:eek::no:
 
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