Surprise

We've had a couple of surprises in this project with electrical junction boxes behind shower walls and now a dryer vent pipe with a broken connection in the basement.  The worst surprise is during the original construction, someone cut the top cord of the engineered floor joist to install the exhaust venting for the dryer, and compromised the strength of the joist.  To correct the problem we are installing the dryer vent inside the wall, this will miss the floor joist and create a proper connection for future dryer hook-ups.  The floor joist is truly compromised, we will add framing posts between the bottom of the joist and the floor.