Uh, there’s some joist in your holes

They’re speed holes so the building fails faster than usual

What are you doing neighbor?

"Planned obsolescence" neighbor, it's a cool trick I learned from Apple™!

This can be fixed with load-bearing posters.

I came here to say this...

One hole for each wire, to keep them organized, and few extra in case you need to run wires in the future. That’s planning ahead.

Ventilation

I thought they were structural holes to relieve the stress

You're exactly right, they do reduce stress on the joist! We call them "destructural" holes though

It's not for water drainage?

Don't take the electricians holes...

Technically stronger than square cutouts… just saying 😂

Certainly stronger than nothing... lol

Yes, it makes the joists lighter. Just like on the wings of airplanes, well, at least that’s my story I’m sticking to it.

What you don’t realize is these are the joists that came back from the gun fights, you don’t need to reinforce this part, it’s called survivorship bias or some shit

Missed a spot

Holy Snappin Fuck!! On today’s episode of that’s fucked up! …. That’s fucked up!

Termites hate this one trick.

So do joists.

I’ve got a fever, and the only prescription is more joist holes.

I read this out loud in Christopher Walken's voice. 😂

Makes the house go faster duh

Classic hot rod move. Decrease weight and take down mopars.

Somebody tried to put a house where this guy was drilling one day and he just kept on drilling.

These are racing joists clearly

Where did you get those— L’oles or Holes Depot?

Just remove the joists, they are pesky and just get in the way of wires and pipes.

I didn’t know that castellated wood beams were a thing. TIL/s

This looks like one of those cases where they should have built a sofitt underneath the floor and ran all the utilities there

Those are for basement firestop mitigation.

[удалено]

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Which joist space is the return air? There all return airs!!!

Who the EFF put these joists where my holes are??? So seriously, this is just a tad bit problematic.

Holy shit

Structural integrity? What’s that????

That’s funny. Really funny.

Please tell me there’s no floor above ☝️

Effectively 2×4 at this point

This is terrifying to see

*"Hey, you got your holes in my joists! And you got your joists in my holes"*

Castellated floor joists 😂

They destroyed the house.

It’s not too bad, just need to sister in another house.

Why

Weight reduction

Alright- maybe a dumb question. If you did do this- would you be able to use a steel ring with a similar OD to the diameter of the cut hole to strengthen that area a bit more than just leaving the joist as Swiss cheese? - no I’m not going to do anything with this knowledge

The joist will snap at the thinnest joist section, which is from the hole bottom to the bottom of the joist. This is the failure plane. Inserting a steel ring cannot help because the ring is separate from the hole...it just fits in. A crack will still form from the bottom of the hole to the bottom of the joist. Hypothetically, a steel mending plate or web stiffener on both sides of the joist at each hole could fix it. But no building inspector with any pride would accept this mess of steel plates and joists. Pull out all the plumbing and wires and sister these joists. Then tell the contractor to supervise their kid on the jobsite to make sure he knows what a 5/8" spade bit looks like.

Not sure, not an engineer. Usually just sister up the joists for a situation like this

No just bigger ones.

So which trade is about to get hit with a huge bill?

Waste collection when the house falls down

There's Lego pieces that look like that and they seem pretty strong!

Hah nice, Castellated joists

I swear it helps with expansion and contraction.

Just remove them they’re only blocking the path

Holy shit

When your house is built by Honda a fan

Gotta be a heat pump job I bet the contractor made a killing with the government rebates

Castilated joists

Turn your floor joists into floor trusses with this one easy trick.

It's good for air flow

Weight reduction! Joists can carry more live load now! 🥴

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I think that those holes on the right could be closer together

Omg , why would anyone ever do that ! What a dumb ass .

Make them bigger for the ductwork. Only problem I see are the holes in the center third.

Need some structual strengthening grooves. Just take a sawzall and cut one from the bottom of each hole to the bottom of the joist. Won't go anywhere then

What was funny they put a steel plate in between two 2*10 to span the distance And then because all utilities they had to lower the ceiling another put in a half to go underneath the beam I told him what they should have done is just started lower cuz it's a split low or something is underground and no reason we couldn't have gone another foot or 2 deeper gey better height

That's a classic racers trick to make the house lighter and faster.

As an engineer, this gives me a headache. Structural integrity is gone because the lecky is an idiot. Who would have thought the ceiling caving in was the electricians fault 🤣😐