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Plumbers & Electricians Should Not Be Allowed Power Tools
The electrician was trying to keep his wires inside the framed wall in this basement so sheetrock could be installed without interference from the wires. This is a non-load bearing (floating) wall beside the basement stairs. He drilled through the top plate of the floating wall and through the bottom flange of the engineered floor joist. That basically killed this joist. Luckily this is a double joist being beside the stair opening but I wrote it up anyway as possibly needing repair (monitor and repair as needed).
It would have been very simple for the electrician to have bored through one more stud and come in behind the stairs and then through the web of the engineered floor joist (as is permitted).
This is only the latest example that I have seen where plumbers and electricians butcher the structure to put their stuff in. I remember a few months ago seeing a TJI completely cut in two where the plumber cut it to install his drainpipe below a huge whirlpool tub. Large load (tub full of water and two overweight Americans) + no floor joist = trouble.
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"Baseball is like church. Many attend but few understand." Leo Durocher
Bruce Breedlove
www.avaloninspection.com
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