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Here are the photos. You can see that there are a lot of obstructions that the installers had to work around. My problem was that the floor trusses were deflected quite significantly (1.5" over 8 ft.). Several of the metal connector plates were failing (peeling off) and at least one of the...

I should also add that the engineer seemed like he had not encountered this problem in the past and seemed less than totally certain about the fix.

I had the same problem in my home with floor trusses. A structural engineering firm designed a very similar fix with plywood gussets on each side of the trusses. I can send photos and the drawing if that would help.