A year long repair of a serious structural problem in our house is finally done today. A previous contractor (past the statute of limitations and judgment proof) had removed a structural wall claiming that it wasn't structural, and undermined the integrity of a roof joist above the structural wall in a previous kitchen renovation.
We contacted a structural engineer last January when the the kitchen ceiling started to slump (about 3") and a wall was starting to bend.
A large engineered wood support beam had to be installed to hold up the roof. Various other things had to be tweaked as a consequence, from the attic to the basement. A large kitchen cabinet (replaced with some open shelves on an exterior wall), an open shelf unit, two pendant lights, and some crown molding, that were all where the beam had to go, had to be sacrificed.
Two rounds of bad contractors had to be fired mid-job before two good contractors, for whom we had to act as a de facto general contractor, finished the job. The last two contractors had to work around the inferior workmanship of the first two contractors, and sometimes had to just tear out the previous work to redo it. The job should have taken about three weeks once work started in May, and should been done before the 4th of July. Six months after that, the job is finally done.