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About Bill Hutson
Expertise
Founder and President of Table Talk Foundation for Better Living Inc. a non-profit organization aimed at making free home repairs for the elderly, the disabled and the disadvantaged. I have extensive expertise pertaining to cost effective rehabilitation and repair in older homes as well as all phases of newer residential construction.

Experience
Remodel and rehab contractor from 1979 to 1993 specializing in restaurant remodel and home restoration. Jobsite troubleshooter assisting residential contractors through KA Components, Mid America Truss, and Kerkhoff Associates from 1993 until 2002. Contractors' consultant 1990 to present. Used as a construction expert in the local court system. Registered contractor with The Fedral Government, FEMA and several insurance companies. Master Carpenter at Table Talk Ministries a non-profit organization aimed at making free home repairs for those who could not ohterwise afford to have them done.

Organizations
Table Talk Foundation for Better Living Inc. www.tabletalkministries.org Founder/President.

Publications
Features have been published in Fleet Owner's Magazine, Trucker's News Magazine, The Daily Clintonian Newspaper, The Hoosier Topics Newspaper, and The Banner Graphic Newspaper several times. We have also done features on WKJK and WREB radio stations. WXIN 59 Indianapolis, WTHI 10 Terre Haute

Education/Credentials
Northwestern State University

Awards and Honors
"Make a Difference Award" from WTHI channel 10 in Terre Haute Indiana. We have recently received the Fueling Good prize from Citgo where we won free gas for a year, that will help us in our efforts to make homes warm, safe and dry for our elderly and disabled neighbors. We were recently featured on WXIN 59 in Indianapolis on their "Paying it Forward" segment, mainly because I pay for 90% of the repairs that Table Talk makes from my own pocket.

Past/Present Clients
We focus our attention to the elderly, the disabled and the disadvantaged. We are receiving clients from 1 Federal and 5 State Agencies, 9 different public and private organizations plus multiple churches and hospitals.

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Home Improvement--General - Cracked Floor Joist

Expert: Bill Hutson - 11/4/2009

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This house was built in 1962, this cracked floor joist is right underneath of bathroom tub. I am remodeling my bathroom now, and replacing whole floor will be installing new subfloor, backerboard and finally tiles so it is going tobe pretty heavy stuff on top of this floor joist. What are my options to strengthen this floor joist, one of the issues I am facing is that there are wire going thru these floor joist, (electrical work poorly done) not visible in picture on both sides of crack so what is seen in the picture is pretty much the available area to so something. What would be a better solution to this problem, sistering with a piece of 2x8 or using some kind of metal? And is jacking up the joist advisable?
Would highly appreciate any help. Thanks

Answer
Salem,

You can just use a couple pieces of 2x8 (one on either side) and put 3/8 carriage bolts %26 nuts through it, I would like to see 4 bolts on either side of the cracked area. If you can only sister a 2x8 on one side of this joist, make it as long as you can and use more bolts, about every 6-8 inches top and bottom.
Just be careful that you don't drill through any pipes or wires.

Then you can run a perpendicular brace from this joist to the next one on each side, that will help to spread the load even more.

You should be fine with that.

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