Plaster disaster!

[AppleQueen]

Hello everyone!!

Help please!

We are doing a new build and had plasterboard and then plaster applied to the ceilings last week, the last day they worked was 20th December.

I went on 24th and everything was ok.

Just been there now and the whole ceiling - plasterboard and plaster - has fallen down over the whole living room!!!

What’s happened??!

Obviously I will contact the plasterers but I don’t want to today because it’s Saturday night.

A bit of background - it’s very cold in there even though fully sealed, probably hanging around 5 degrees. No leak visible. The plasterboard has come down in whole boards or some of them have cracked in half. Most screws are still in the joists. Only affected one room, everywhere else is fine.

I’m so sad  just when I thought it was nearly there!

Thanks for your help!

[Iceverge]

Wet boards. They'll need to redo them 

 

Make sure every defective board "falls" down so they don't try to get out of a full reboard. 

[Mr Punter]

If it is only 1 room it will be easier to start again.  Very odd though.  We have in the past had a flood via broken plumbing fitting and the ground floor was like the rainforest the next morning, with water pouring throughout the ground floor ceiling.  The ceiling stayed intact and we managed to dry it out with dehumidifiers and heat.

[nod]

Damp boards 

[joe90]

1 minute ago, nod said:

Damp boards 

Do you mean they got damp before they were fitted? So extra weight? 

[ProDave]

1 minute ago, joe90 said:

Do you mean they got damp before they were fitted? So extra weight? 

If they were damp when fitted they would be a lot weaker and the screws would pop easier.

 

I have never known good dry new boards failing from the moisture in the plaster.

[nod]

3 minutes ago, joe90 said:

Do you mean they got damp before they were fitted? So extra weight? 

Yep

Screw go through the paper Skimmed in damp cold temps screws slowly pull through usually Bottom of pile    Same boards are fine on walls 

 

[joe90]

1 minute ago, nod said:

Yep

Screw go through the paper Skimmed in damp cold temps screws slowly pull through usually Bottom of pile    Same boards are fine on walls 

 

God has spoken 

[nod]

Just now, joe90 said:

God has spoken 

It’s quite common for boards to get damp

I tell the guys that work for me If a board can’t be lifted above your head by one person It needs to go on the wall 

 

[Gus Potter]

1 hour ago, AppleQueen said:

I’m so sad  just when I thought it was nearly there!

Feel for you. Best to redo it in the long run.. unfortunately.

 

 

 

[Kelvin]

Happened to a friend. Bought boards and left them in his barn. The top boards were fine as they went on the walls. The bottom boards got damp and fell off the ceiling shortly after fitting but weren’t plastered. 

[AppleQueen]

Thank you all! At least now I know what’s happened. They were the bottom of the pile and the pile has been sitting there for a good few weeks now. So brand new boards and reskim then. I’m just glad it happened before we decorated. In the other rooms that havnt fallen down, do they need redoing just incase or is it only if they sagging? Should I get a dehumidifier?

[Conor]

6 minutes ago, AppleQueen said:

Thank you all! At least now I know what’s happened. They were the bottom of the pile and the pile has been sitting there for a good few weeks now. So brand new boards and reskim then. I’m just glad it happened before we decorated. In the other rooms that havnt fallen down, do they need redoing just incase or is it only if they sagging? Should I get a dehumidifier?

Leave windows open. You should never have a house fully sealed up during works like this, soooo much moisture around.