We had a contractor install a new Anderson sliding door 4 years ago and I remember him telling me he had to trim the studs to allow the door to fit in the rough opening. Currently we are remodeling our downstairs and removed the drywall and were surprised to see only single 1” wide jack studs supporting the 4x12 header above the door. There is a large second floor master bath with a mudded tile floor and a large two-person tub directly above that cantilevers out the back. I ran a string and the center of the two top plates deflects almost a 1/2” over a 6’ span in the middle. The load on this header must be substantial and even single unripped 2x4 jack studs would be insufficient for the load I don’t see anything I can do to correct this situation except to fur out a properly sized load-bearing wall in front of the existing exterior wall. I would like to support the 2x12 floor joists above with a 4x12 Parallam. I would carry the load down to the foundation wall using 4x6 posts and building up the sill plate under the subfloor. See drawing below. Does anyone see a problem with this approach? Thanks for taking the time to read my post.

The past storm we had some leaks in the roof. I inspected the 5 year old roof on this home we bought 3 years ago and found that there is no felt paper under the shingles. The last owner (who was a contractor) shingled the roof without first putting down felt or ice sheild. The question here is I know that I have to reroof the home but do I lay down felt paper over the shingle that are there now or just reshingle over the old shingles. I know that I should just rip the roof and start fresh but I am disabled and I must do this job myself because lack of funds. It would just be easyer to just go over whats there then to rip it first. Any suggestion? I need all the help I can get here. Thank you.