Chief16Designer

This will help to make your floors and ceilings the same ht

Make sure baseline is the same hight

He repaired a leak in the area when the house was approaching the end of its 2 year warranty. The leak is back. This makes the builder part responsible

if its a leak the roofer it should not be a leak criket or no criket , on new construction is 10 years warranty

This may be an option

As long as you have enough shear wall 6"or 8" wall will do it, for the picture you may need steel it has no shear wall I also had seen other engineers using 2 Hardy steel walls on top of each other 12' high steel on the bottom and 8'high steel on top

Do a plan check make sure you have closed rooms

it might be an invisible wall delete it

2 layers of 5/8 drywall = 1 hr fire wall check on that most of the inspectors don't pay attention to the 1 or 2 layers 1 layers = 30 min

You could open the wall check ballon through celling above

Check layers make sure you have a closed room post the plan

it looks like you stil have interior casing and sill checked uncheck it

Doorway with no interior or exterior casing no threshold

Not a window passthrough with no casing