Thanks for the quick responses and great posts.
I do want to make it right for the new owner, so thank you greenalleycat, you are correct I am looking to do the work myself and value the advice that was provided by jerseyshore and yourself. At your prompting I’ve sought out structural...
I discovered, 15 years later, that a contractor who installed a whole house fan cut one of the web members out in order to install a whole house fan in our attic. Now I need to fix it to sell the house.
This thread ( thread507-476224 ) was an excellent reference similar to what I’m facing...