And the orrible smell of wet plasterboard lasts for months...
I had this with a tap in the loft that a plumber turned off when changing
the cylinder, and obviously it had dripped for a month or so slowly soaking
into the bedroom ceiling until one day, flump, that is the sound it made as
it kind of came down....

Brian

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"SteveW" wrote in message
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I am currently in the middle of re-doing our bathroom. Tomorrow the bath
and its waste pipe are due to come out. This morning I was having a shower,
only for my wife to shout that water was coming through the ceiling.
Normally I'd have stopped showering and investigated, but my current
contract is ending and I was due at an interview for another company at
08:00, so had no choice but to finish off.

Got back at lunchtime to find a chunk of the hall ceiling on the floor and
chunks of plasterboard falling off every few minutes.

After 18 years in the house, a joint in the middle of the waste pipe that
has been there longer than that has slipped off the day before it was due
to be ripped out.

I presume it was disturbed by the other work - or maybe it was a
pre-emptive strike.

SteveW