So That Happened
Jul. 6th, 2016 07:21 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
rowynOn Saturday or Sunday, Lut commented, "Is it just me, or is that crack in the ceiling getting bigger?"
I looked up. A crack ran much of the length of the ceiling over Lut's side of the den. "I don't know. I don't remember it." I didn't think too much about it: cracks happen sometimes. House shifts or whatever.
Tuesday night, as I sat at my computer and my cat, Kali, sat beside me in Lut's seat, I heard distant fireworks. Guess some people aren't done with the fourth yet, I thought. I felt bad for my cat. Then there was a sound like hail. My cat looked up, glanced at the window, and the hail intensified. Kali bolted from the room, as is her wont whenever strange noises are coming from the sky. She's sure it's going to fall on her.
Then a six foot by three foot section of the ceiling collapsed over Lut's seat.
...
OK then.
It rained down in chunks of plaster and sheet rock. We have about 8 garbage bags partially full of the stuff now. "Partially full" because it is heavy. I'd guess that section of ceiling was 150-200 lbs of stuff.
My cat's lifetime of paranoia about the sky falling on her? NOW TOTALLY JUSTIFIED. If Lut or I had been sitting under it, we'd never have gotten out of the way in time. Kali: NO PROBLEM. She was out of the room and probably halfway down the stairs before the first chunk fell.
We have it mostly cleaned up now, though bits of dust are still settling from the ceiling boards. No signs of water damage. According to the internet, apparently ceilings just spontaneously collapse some times.
D:
I will keep an eye out for other cracks. There aren't any in the rest of the house. I checked.
I leave you with a small section of the kind of wreckage that covered half of the room. All the electronics seemed to have survived, so that's good.
So.
Anyone know a good plasterer?
I looked up. A crack ran much of the length of the ceiling over Lut's side of the den. "I don't know. I don't remember it." I didn't think too much about it: cracks happen sometimes. House shifts or whatever.
Tuesday night, as I sat at my computer and my cat, Kali, sat beside me in Lut's seat, I heard distant fireworks. Guess some people aren't done with the fourth yet, I thought. I felt bad for my cat. Then there was a sound like hail. My cat looked up, glanced at the window, and the hail intensified. Kali bolted from the room, as is her wont whenever strange noises are coming from the sky. She's sure it's going to fall on her.
Then a six foot by three foot section of the ceiling collapsed over Lut's seat.
...
OK then.
It rained down in chunks of plaster and sheet rock. We have about 8 garbage bags partially full of the stuff now. "Partially full" because it is heavy. I'd guess that section of ceiling was 150-200 lbs of stuff.
My cat's lifetime of paranoia about the sky falling on her? NOW TOTALLY JUSTIFIED. If Lut or I had been sitting under it, we'd never have gotten out of the way in time. Kali: NO PROBLEM. She was out of the room and probably halfway down the stairs before the first chunk fell.
We have it mostly cleaned up now, though bits of dust are still settling from the ceiling boards. No signs of water damage. According to the internet, apparently ceilings just spontaneously collapse some times.
D:
I will keep an eye out for other cracks. There aren't any in the rest of the house. I checked.
I leave you with a small section of the kind of wreckage that covered half of the room. All the electronics seemed to have survived, so that's good.
So.
Anyone know a good plasterer?
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Date: 2016-07-06 02:15 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2016-07-06 02:59 pm (UTC)are you really attached to the plaster?
rip out the ceiling & replace with drywall
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Date: 2016-07-06 03:07 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2016-07-06 03:12 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2016-07-06 09:15 pm (UTC)Golly
Date: 2016-07-07 11:54 am (UTC)