• ChonkyOwlbear@lemmy.world
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    2 days ago

    My dad used to have a little old house where the previous owner cut a notch like this through the main beam to run a PVC pipe for the toilet. We bridged the gap with a strip of steel plate and then braced it with a foundation jack. That wouldn’t work with so many beams cut though.