plumber's box

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Noun

plumber's box (plural plumber's boxes)

  1. a method of transferring load between joists to enable a cutout of a joist to allow for a plumbing run, by having doubled-up cross-joists to run between the two adjacent joists of the severed joist at each side of the cut