Of course I didn't take any before pictures. But the center point of the barn roof has sagged 3 1/2 inches. At the same time the west wall at the plate has bowed out about 5 inches.

This is multi part operation. The first two parts of the project are to raise the center ridge board back up, WHILE at the SAME TIME pulling the side walls together to correct the bow out in the West wall. (Thats what the yellow tow straps running across the middle of the picture are doing)

The east wall is straight, plumb and seems to be well braced to the floor. The west wall brace either failed or whoever put up the basketball net tried to remove it. The lack of a brace on the west wall has helped lead to the problems. We need to replace that bracing with new braces that will prevent this in the future.

Here are the 3 'posts' we built to jack up the center of the roof. More details later..

Also a nice view of our Ventilated roof...