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Ran across this one yesterday

Ed, Welcome to the forum. I had that with rafters last month; "pullem out and replace them". but, but, but, that's the way weve done it for over 20 years, :) .
 
I was barely able to keep a straight face on that one. They wanted to see if they could get an engineer, I told them sure knock yourself out but I doubt you will find one that will sign off on it but maybe he will design you a fix.
 
That wasn't easy to accomplish and if you didn't know any better you would think that it looks pretty good.
 
Assuming that the joists are deep enough I believe a fix can be designed. The problem with such fixes is that the details would be fussy and it would have been cheaper to have done it right the first time.

In many cases the inability to do it right the first time raises the question of whether they will able to follow the new details.
 
Before these genius' developed "approved" crap like finger joint lumber; I received engineered specs for splices on hips where it was not possible to buy lumber long enough. It consisted of a butted angle splice and osb sandwich. Even then they would try to butt square cut boards and hide the splice.
 
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Yeah, fix to the prescriptive code, or give me engineering.

Welcome Ed K!

daddy-o, great to see some posts from you!
 
Fatboy.

Feeling pretty good at this point. I am 1/3 through with every day radiation and chemo treatments. Tolerating so far. The open skull brain surgery was not much fun but healing well from that. I will continue to post at a reduced rate as long as I feel up to it. All the prayers must be working at least so far! They are being extremely aggressive with my treatment because the tumor was not operable when they cut me open.

BTW. Ed K is a good friend. Glad he is here.
 
There is always a fix.. depends how much they want to pay.. (for the engineer AND the fix).. I'm thinking no engineer is going to sign off on THAT.
 
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