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Originally Posted by masraum
Yeah, nothing surprising about it. The porch is angled away from the house as it should be. I don't remember the details about the supports RE: house --> porch (whether they are all one or added on or what. But it wouldn't surprise me if at some point the house was leveled and the porch intentionally allowed to droop (water run-off) or just got that way over time with less attention paid to the porch.
The left room is ~9.5' wide, then ~7' hall, then ~11' room and ~6' porch.
Most of the house studs that I've seen (walls and ceilings) are on roughly 24" centers.
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Last week I put a post in the middle of my flat roof garage. I raised that roof pond 2" in the center with a floor jack. You guessed it, 2x 4 rafters crossing a 2 x 8 beam. Those are the actual net dimensions but not enough for built up roofs.
I guess a post in the middle of a bedroom would not be handy.
Last big reno I did I put 2 steel beams under a 2nd floor in the kitchen ceiling. Contractors before me had removed walls and failed to add support. One upstairs door was 2" out of level at the opening. It's a quarter inch out now. Not bad as you can't really see it with the door cut the same.
I used to do that stuff all the time. I actually had fun listening to a big pops while jacking.