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Not only did he miss the easiest way to solve this problem, but he cut perfectly square notches that were twice as wide as the pipe. You need multiple tools to do that, and a LOT of quality time on your back in a crawlspace eating sawdust to do it.
A circular saw and a hammer would do it. Just 2 cuts and a thwack per board.
If the cuts are too deep a sawzall and longish blade would work too but take longer.
If I somehow ended up owning this house I’d probably just screw some 1/8” steel straps across the bottoms of the joists and call it a day. The the bottoms of floor joists are in tension anyway.
Sawzall and a hammer works fine
Surely there is more to this
As complete dumbass I can almost assure you that the person who did this did it to the first one and then went in for a penny in for a pound so they kept going. I did this with my bathtubs faucet, problem with that was at least I didn't need the old one so taking a sawzaw to it didn't break anything else.