My main header is bowing/cracking and taking the floor with it.
Shortly before I bought my new home the seller replaced the jacks holding up the header with support columns. They were spanned a bit farther apart than the older jacks but still no more than 8 feet each. In the contractors infinite knowledge he decided the house was raised an inch to high (or so I'm told) and lowered the house an inch. The basement is sheetrocked and apparently neither the owner nor the contractor knew there was another jack between the sheetrock and foundation wall which I am guessing is still set higher than the rest. Also there is another jack in the corner which doesn't look like it's been touched in the last 30 years. This corner jack is right under my living room and it's really really drafty in that corner. I was on the roof hanging Christmas lights this winter and that corner of the hosue had no snow on the roof despite the 4 inches on the rest of the house (it's a flat roof) Also my bedroom is right above where the floor is dipping with cracking sheetrock under the window. It is now the coldest room in the house coldest room in the house. I don't think I should finish my basement or replace my roof until this is taken care of. To the best of my knowledge this was done less than 18 months ago. I am enclosing come pictures. The ones where the header goes into the sheetrock is the kitchen side and the ones near the washer dryer are on the bedroom side. I had to tilt the camera on its side to get a pic of the jack behind the sheetrock. You can barley see it. How does one go about fixing something like this?