Owning your own home

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one day I wake up and reaslise my ceiling has collasped

It's quite annoying when it happens but unlikely to be the end of the world.

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More recent buying and selling activity to influence the estimated prices.

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Our bedroom, we weren't in it at the time.

We think the cause was a leak in a door frame of a loft conversion above let a small amount of water in which over about 8 years led the ~90 year old plaster to fail. I'm not 100% confident in the problem door, assuming that was the cause. Kind of hard to see what is going on between ceilings and floors.

Zoopla estimates are finger in the air back of the envelope nonsense. As long as they are = / - 100k, there's probably no inferences to be made.

I thought so, but the houses on either side are not affected, hence my question...

The houses on either side are affected, they're just affected by the the lack of information instead. It'll just be that the trend line Zoopla draws starts from a different place and doesn't have any info to course correct along the way.

As ^, if it's in the ballpark then that's as good as you'll get.

@jellybaby did you overboard that or pull the whole ceiling down?

The ceiling in our living room is original (house is ~200 yo) and it’s very wobbly and cracked. I’m quite keen to overboard as I can’t face bringing a 200 yo ceiling down.

Pulled the whole ceiling down. As soon as we started that the plaster on the walls came off in chunks. Back to brick before we knew it.

On the positive side we found the live unterminated mains cable buried diagonally in the wall.

I know there is some flexibility on extending roofline to get extra height, but surely this breaks all the rules?

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I feel this is round the corner from me.
There is no flexibility, everyone breaks the rules and there is a 4 year grace window to be caught.

We had the same thing, end up costing £1500 to get it sorted, plasterer did a great jobs with almost minimal mess (they always tend to be incredibly messy especially with horse hairs being used).

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That's just taking the piss.

I jacked the roof up on my old house but it didn't stick out like a sore thumb like that. There are certain subtle ways of doing it, so it blends in a bit better to the streetscape than this. Involves ridge tiles, rendering the fire walls, that sort of thing.

Nice @edscoble so is that just over boarded on the original ceiling? Exactly what I want to do if so!

Yup, removed the edging sadly but now look quite modern without it and look perfectly symmetrical.

Paint was done by us to save cost.

Nice thanks! Pretty reasonable cost too.

Our bedroom ceiling had just been boarded over previously with the nails only going into the preexisting plaster ceiling. Whole layer came down without tools. Which is worrying as we had been sleeping under it for 2 years. Similar for the horse hair lathe and plaster wall above the bed. It was only held up by the woodchip wallpaper.

All now replaced, thank fuck. And got about 5-6" of extra height in the middle of the room.

That fucking Zoopla algorithm better be fucking grateful when we're finished.

They might claim that the top of the decorative ridge tiles (that they may or may not have had) marked the 'original' height of the roofline, and they've matched that.

It looks shit though, and will probably leak.

Collapsed ceilings? Yep, been there.

In my case a blocked gutter had meant heavy rain being directed onto the window frame, which eventually gave way and let my wall fill up with water. Was sitting at the computer one night when I heard what sounded like indoor rain, went to investigate and narrowly missed it coming down on my head.

It's still like that 2 1/2 years later because a) despite having a new window installed and actually cleaning the gutter I'm paranoid it'll re-occur, and b) potential loft conversion makes fixing it pointless cos that'll get replaced anyway.

Option b is now supposed to be happening, albeit frustratingly slowly.

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Collapsed ceilings stories? Sure
Was renting a room in a flat share in a mansion block in Balham about 12yrs ago.
this place

Some building maintenance was going on, possibly replacing the roof tiles or similar. One evening I noticed a slight sag in the ceiling in my room. I called the landlord and went out to the pub.
Got a call from my flatmates 90mins later saying the whole ceiling had collapsed and my room looked like a building site. I spent a few weeks kipping in the lounge while things were sorted. Suffice to say the landlord didn't quibble too much over the deposit when it was time to move out.

Lovely looking job that!

Card carrying member when at Rowhill Mansions:

https://www.lfgss.com/comments/8881132/

Also, I believe, @Bainbridge

edit, needs moving to right thread