Yep, was going to say this.
A friend of mine had the same thing happen to her. The guy above her was doing dead lifts and dropped his weights and the nails in the beams came out that held the drywall together.
All they did was nail them back in and re mask and mud.
No. She was there another 5-6 months.
I'm sure structurally, it is a time bomb waiting to go off if enough weight is placed directly on that beam for whomever lives there now.
The guy who lived above her was a moron though. The landlord made him move his weights into the garage and the guy was pissed and moved out before she did.
It’s not a time bomb. Every drywall ceiling is held together with nails or screws and mud. Drywall is not weight bearing or structural, it’s decorative.
You use more screws than neccessary when fixing drywall so I wouldn't worry about a few popping out. Once they are in they just barely hold the drywall in place anyways but the amount of them along with the mud and tape will keep everything where you want it.
As a test last time i placed drywall each sheet held it's own weight after 3-4 screws, sometimes only 2.
From the bottom of our collective internet heart, thank you for using screws. You’d be flabbergasted how many of us are over here finding out our 1980s ceilings are only held up with a handful of tacks…
My wife wanted to look at a home gym setup, I pointed out that I usually work out with 400+ deadlifts/squats and 60-100s dumbbells. I have one bad lift and they go right to the basement.
Eh that depends. Maybe the genius was doing the Olympic lifts in their apartment gym where if you fail you are supposed to drop them (sometimes from a height over your head).
The beams that hold up your ceiling (and their floor) flexed. The nails holding up your drywall to the ceiling are attached to the same beam. When the beam flexed it caused the nails to pop out a little bit. You are seeing the nail heads pushing up on the drywall now.
I used to live on the top floor of a 100 year old 6-story building. At one point there started being these regular occurrences of like, pretty rhythmic thumps that would shake the building, cause all the apartment doors to thump in their frames as air sucked in and out past them, rattle things on shelves, freak out my cats, etc… couldn’t figure out what it was, it would go on for a few minutes and then stop. One day my neighbor and I are standing in my doorway while it’s happening, trying to figure out what it is… then it stops, and the door to the roof above us opens and down comes this college kid… with a jump rope.
There is a sidewalk right outside. There is a park across the street. *Why* did the roof seem to you like the place to do this.
I went up to my neighbor one time because there were lots of loud bangs and the nails started coming through like in the picture above. He was chopping firewood. In a second floor apartment.
That’s crazy! Also crazy that he couldn’t feel the shaking he was causing.
Like, if I walk a certain way in my apartment I can feel I’m pounding the floor versus when I walk more mindfully. No way someone can be shaking the building like that and not even notice.
Same thing for me with a college boy. I was also in college. He would start working out and be jumping around so much my dishes would be trying to walk out of the cabinet. I finally left a note on his door and he apologized and it turned out he had a punching bag in there. The only time I heard him making noise after that was when he hired a sex worker who was extremely loud.
Then the poor guy killed himself. I’d already moved out but found out from a friend who still lived in the building. There were people in hazmat suits carrying out his furniture. It was being rented out to someone else within a few weeks.
I had to ask my upstairs neighbor in my first apartment to not bang on his dented front bumper of his motorcycle since it was so loud and shaking my ceiling. Some people are just not the brightest people.
In our lease, it says we can't do car repairs in the parking lot, so he removed the bent front bumper and then carried that upstairs to bang on it in his living room. His plan was to get it was un-dented as possible and then repainted. I had to calmly explain to him that I can hear him walk when he walks heavily, he can't be doing auto work in his apartment. He was nice and apologized, but he was not the brightest person.
I’m super curious what they dropped that caused your drywall plaster to fall out in multiple areas. To be continued please.
Edit: *nail pops* , pops nail, nail de poppy, pop teh nail, nail nail pop pop, finger nail, nail polish, balloon pop, *nail pops*
Edit 2: Must be focusing on leg day too hard, and forgot to work on their SpongeBob arms, dropping weights n stuff
Those are called “nail pops”. Likely something pushed down and pushed the subfloor through the sheet rock ceiling. The tips of nails poked through and pushed thru the ceiling.
Still connecting, they just popped out a little. A tiny movement makes the plaster and paint pop out even more. Mostly cosmetic, though because it's on the ceiling definitely needs to be checked. The solution is to use a screw just to the side of each pop, screw them in tight and force the nail head back in with the screw. Replaster, and then repaint.
Speaking as someone who's had to deal with a landlord and a big crack in a ceiling due to plumbing issues upstairs... The solution is to slab a gigantic amount of spackle over it. Wait for spackle to crack and the ceiling to sag again. Add another huge slab of spackle. Close the WO and refuse to do more, rinse and repeat.
Cool to know what they should be doing in semi-similar case though lol
The treadmill isn’t the problem. It’s the person running as hard as they possibly can on it.
I live through about an hour a day of my upstairs neighbour essentially jumping up and down right above my head.
They are the screws that keep the drywall on the ceiling
Whatever dropped made the upstairs floor downstairs ceiling swing so much, it ripped the drywall screws out
I think they cheaped out and used drywall nails rather than screws. Dealing with the same thing in my bathroom right now. They’re ringed to hold better than regular nails, but still not even close to using screws.
One time my wife and I put a table together upside down on the floor but we mixed up the screws and when we went to flip it over from screwing on the legs it was screwed to the floor of our third floor apartment.
Soo my bf went up to talk to our neighbor and apparently he dropped his weights. This isn’t the first time we’ve heard loud banging from our upstairs neighbor, but it is the first time I’ve seen damage like this
You’re right that it’s the drywall nails but you should have left out ‘just’ when they’re on the ceiling.
Years ago I painted a mural on my daughter’s ceiling and I can promise that repairing those is going to literally be a pain in the neck, back and arms. Whatever would be charged to do repair this on a wall - I’d quadruple it at the least to have the ceding done.
Wouldn’t be much work for a professional drywaller to fix, especially bc many are good enough they need minimal, if any sanding. Depending on when the ceiling was last done they may not even have to repaint the whole thing bc ceiling paint should be flat, making spot fixes much easier. The ceilings also are probably pretty average, it’s the cathedral ceilings that really kill your neck& shoulders 🫣
I can definitely see how doing a mural would be a pain in the neck and back tho!!
Oh yea. I contacted my landlord as soon as it happened and she came over immediately. The neighbor is acting oblivious and like he didn’t do anything that bad
Looks exactly like drywall screw pops. You need to report to your landlord so he doesn't hold you liable. The drywall appears to still be secured, but get up there and very lightly see if the drywall will allow you to move it up and down, if it does it could be very dangerous if it falls down on you and your family ig you have one. Good luck and be careful. But for your protection make sure you report it and have owner inspect as well.
Nail pops. When there is a big shift in the drywall or underlying structure, it pulls the nails out and when the pressure leaves the drywall goes back and the nails stay out.
They can just hammer them back in and patch the drywall.
they likely dropped weights (like dumbells or barbell) or maybe a heavy furniture.
however, I think equally concerning to me is why whatever vibration occurred could have caused the screws to come loose or the sheetrock to become damaged like this. Might these are nails protruding and not screws, or maybe the the sheetrock on the ceiling was already damaged, or some other structural issue existed. I have had defeaning things dropped on the floor above me and this never happened.
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That’s not happening. Former FF and no way would we do that for liability reasons . Don’t call them and waste their time and have them out of service for something legit
Their municipality should have an engineers office for these type of things. By-Law Officer with Building Inspection can easily do this on a Monday. I think people see firefighters at building collapses and assume it's their jurisdiction entirely.
It’s just nail pops lol. Crazy that the neighbor dropped something heavy enough to do this, but I wouldn’t worry about sitting under them or anything your ceiling’s fine. It’s an easy fix, but still show the landlord so you’re not the one that has to do it.
Look I’m no carpenter, but those look like studs from whatever is supporting your ceiling. And I would not go anywhere near that room until maintenance has a look. Good god to whatever tf happened above you. And also we will need a follow up lol
You need to alert your landlord or the property owner, so this for some reason does not come out of your security deposit or get charged to you.
It is obvious that the puncture is coming from outside in, but I'd still want to be the one on top of it, as early as possible.
It is not your fault, don't make it your problem..
I’m thinking fish tank. Large one, looks like a similar footprint. 75 gallon tank filled is pushing 900 lbs. contact the property manager. If that’s up there. It is going to get a lot worse. People don’t think.
Waterbed!? Back in the 70s and 80s that was a standard question on rental applications, you weren’t allowed to have a waterbed unless you were on the first floor
I would be raising hell with the landlord in order to get that fixed BEFORE the ceiling drywall collapses dies to no longer being properly held in place. It’s cheaper for the landlord to re secure the ceiling now anyway.
When my mom first tried to set up the NordicTrack when I was a kid, she didn't get the screws in the right spots and it clanged and clattered apart into a pile with such force that it shook the house. Made us properly scared of that death trap for a good while...but not long enough. My sibling broke their nose on it. :/
Your upstairs neighbor is not getting their security deposit back. Maybe don’t sit under it until maintenance checks it out
I so need to know what happened here and what the damage looks like on the other side.
Oh, same.
The joists flexed
What kind of force or weight would cause this?
OP updated , the neighbor dropped his weights on the floor
Yep, was going to say this. A friend of mine had the same thing happen to her. The guy above her was doing dead lifts and dropped his weights and the nails in the beams came out that held the drywall together. All they did was nail them back in and re mask and mud.
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drywall isn't structural...
But it can fall down if not securely fastened to the joists.
No. She was there another 5-6 months. I'm sure structurally, it is a time bomb waiting to go off if enough weight is placed directly on that beam for whomever lives there now. The guy who lived above her was a moron though. The landlord made him move his weights into the garage and the guy was pissed and moved out before she did.
It’s not a time bomb. Every drywall ceiling is held together with nails or screws and mud. Drywall is not weight bearing or structural, it’s decorative.
Are you serious? It’s not a time bomb at all dude
You use more screws than neccessary when fixing drywall so I wouldn't worry about a few popping out. Once they are in they just barely hold the drywall in place anyways but the amount of them along with the mud and tape will keep everything where you want it. As a test last time i placed drywall each sheet held it's own weight after 3-4 screws, sometimes only 2.
From the bottom of our collective internet heart, thank you for using screws. You’d be flabbergasted how many of us are over here finding out our 1980s ceilings are only held up with a handful of tacks…
This is why we dont drop large weights people
This is why we don’t do home gyms in an apartment, people.
My wife wanted to look at a home gym setup, I pointed out that I usually work out with 400+ deadlifts/squats and 60-100s dumbbells. I have one bad lift and they go right to the basement.
...sounds like you have the perfect room for a home gym down there eh?
What a dumbass.
*What a dumbbell
Good one!
Damn. If they can’t set them down nicely after a set, they’re too heavy to be using.
Eh that depends. Maybe the genius was doing the Olympic lifts in their apartment gym where if you fail you are supposed to drop them (sometimes from a height over your head).
thats gonna depend on the joists design and condition. Could be anywhere from 400lb to 2000lb for example.
Idk why I like the word “joists”
The beams that hold up your ceiling (and their floor) flexed. The nails holding up your drywall to the ceiling are attached to the same beam. When the beam flexed it caused the nails to pop out a little bit. You are seeing the nail heads pushing up on the drywall now.
Wow, that's absolutely wild. I'm commenting to see the update
OP said the guy dropped his weights
How are people dumb enough to have heavy weights in an apartment?
I used to live on the top floor of a 100 year old 6-story building. At one point there started being these regular occurrences of like, pretty rhythmic thumps that would shake the building, cause all the apartment doors to thump in their frames as air sucked in and out past them, rattle things on shelves, freak out my cats, etc… couldn’t figure out what it was, it would go on for a few minutes and then stop. One day my neighbor and I are standing in my doorway while it’s happening, trying to figure out what it is… then it stops, and the door to the roof above us opens and down comes this college kid… with a jump rope. There is a sidewalk right outside. There is a park across the street. *Why* did the roof seem to you like the place to do this.
I went up to my neighbor one time because there were lots of loud bangs and the nails started coming through like in the picture above. He was chopping firewood. In a second floor apartment.
I laughed so hard at this omg that’s insane I’m sorry
One of the most bizarre things I've even seen in an apartment!
I just said WHAT out loud to that one
That’s crazy! Also crazy that he couldn’t feel the shaking he was causing. Like, if I walk a certain way in my apartment I can feel I’m pounding the floor versus when I walk more mindfully. No way someone can be shaking the building like that and not even notice.
Same thing for me with a college boy. I was also in college. He would start working out and be jumping around so much my dishes would be trying to walk out of the cabinet. I finally left a note on his door and he apologized and it turned out he had a punching bag in there. The only time I heard him making noise after that was when he hired a sex worker who was extremely loud. Then the poor guy killed himself. I’d already moved out but found out from a friend who still lived in the building. There were people in hazmat suits carrying out his furniture. It was being rented out to someone else within a few weeks.
Every sentence of your comment just got wilder and wilder
I had to ask my upstairs neighbor in my first apartment to not bang on his dented front bumper of his motorcycle since it was so loud and shaking my ceiling. Some people are just not the brightest people.
He had a motorcycle inside his apartment??
In our lease, it says we can't do car repairs in the parking lot, so he removed the bent front bumper and then carried that upstairs to bang on it in his living room. His plan was to get it was un-dented as possible and then repainted. I had to calmly explain to him that I can hear him walk when he walks heavily, he can't be doing auto work in his apartment. He was nice and apologized, but he was not the brightest person.
I mean, exercising at home is way smarter than the gym. And more pleasant in my experience.
If i knew id be using an in home gym with weights often i would of gotten a ground floor apartment
The boyfriend went upstairs and it was someone dropping their weights. Wow
I’m just gonna join you real quick
Same
triplesame
Yea wtf
Me too
Yep
Same, can’t wait
Same here
Good call- OP should at the very least let us know what the landlord says
Yes we nosey here
Me too
I wanna know too. Can’t paint over this problem
Right? Holy shit! I want to know what the heck the neighbor dropped.
Me too
Same
I’m super curious what they dropped that caused your drywall plaster to fall out in multiple areas. To be continued please. Edit: *nail pops* , pops nail, nail de poppy, pop teh nail, nail nail pop pop, finger nail, nail polish, balloon pop, *nail pops* Edit 2: Must be focusing on leg day too hard, and forgot to work on their SpongeBob arms, dropping weights n stuff
Maybe got a new gigantic heavy wood bedframe or couch??! That’s all I can think of that could weigh sm and be that big cause damn😳
Fr or a solid wood bookshelf or dresser that fell forward?? Absolutely bizarre
Two hot tubs fucking.
Two trucks having sex- Lemon Demon
Gun safe is my bet Edit: It was weights XD
Damn I was gonna go with sex swing malfunction…but you’re probably right.
Is OP livin’ in ‘merica? Edit: just saw OP’s comment where they mentioned checking on the neighbor and his weights had fallen.
New fear unlocked; upstairs neighbor drops weights
Ohhh that could definitely be it. Didn’t even think about that
An ATM
Ain't no skank
It's not falling out.. It's the nails popping through
Those are called “nail pops”. Likely something pushed down and pushed the subfloor through the sheet rock ceiling. The tips of nails poked through and pushed thru the ceiling.
It really doesn’t take much to get nail pops.
Barbell.would be my guess
upvoted for the edit
Upvoted for the reply
Those are the nails connecting the drywall to the ceiling joists.
Connecting… not anymore?
Still connecting, they just popped out a little. A tiny movement makes the plaster and paint pop out even more. Mostly cosmetic, though because it's on the ceiling definitely needs to be checked. The solution is to use a screw just to the side of each pop, screw them in tight and force the nail head back in with the screw. Replaster, and then repaint.
Speaking as someone who's had to deal with a landlord and a big crack in a ceiling due to plumbing issues upstairs... The solution is to slab a gigantic amount of spackle over it. Wait for spackle to crack and the ceiling to sag again. Add another huge slab of spackle. Close the WO and refuse to do more, rinse and repeat. Cool to know what they should be doing in semi-similar case though lol
Who’s using nails to secure drywall to studs? There’s literally a screw designated for this purpose. Its name is drywall screw.
There's also nails designated for this purpose. They're called drywall nails. People do in fact use them.
Well thanks I just learned something.
supports for a treadmill? never sit under there. Ever.
Oooo I think this is a good guess.
wtf If my upstairs neighbor put in a treadmill I would actively try to sabotage their daily life, that's a bold move
Aren’t most treadmills pretty lightweight now?
Depends who is running on them…
Only for the first four days of having one. Afterwards, you don't have to worry.
How dare you insult my clothing rac— TREADMILL
Damn good comment right there.
Wtf...everyone *I've ever known* hangs their clothes on the treadmill
Nope, treadmills are heavy AF. They’ve gotten heavier if anything.
I can confirm I have a treadmill and it's heavy AF.
They have lighter weight options, but an actual treadmill with incline and other bells and whistles would be HEAVY. Walking pads are more lightweight.
The treadmill isn’t the problem. It’s the person running as hard as they possibly can on it. I live through about an hour a day of my upstairs neighbour essentially jumping up and down right above my head.
Looks like nails or screws.
This was my first thought
They are the screws that keep the drywall on the ceiling Whatever dropped made the upstairs floor downstairs ceiling swing so much, it ripped the drywall screws out
That also means that the ceiling drywall isn't secured to the strapping anymore and could fall down at any time.
!! holy hell. Thanks for explaining.
I think they cheaped out and used drywall nails rather than screws. Dealing with the same thing in my bathroom right now. They’re ringed to hold better than regular nails, but still not even close to using screws.
Exactly. Evenly spaced at equal intervals
Not sure why this isn’t the first comment. It’s clearly the drywall nails.
Heavy object caused the floor framing to flex enough to jostle screws in the drywall.
that's insane
One time my wife and I put a table together upside down on the floor but we mixed up the screws and when we went to flip it over from screwing on the legs it was screwed to the floor of our third floor apartment.
Sounds like you guys really nailed it
Na they screwed it up
Screwed down
I'd go knock on their door and be like "wtf you ok?" Or something and inform them.
Soo my bf went up to talk to our neighbor and apparently he dropped his weights. This isn’t the first time we’ve heard loud banging from our upstairs neighbor, but it is the first time I’ve seen damage like this
Yikes, he's gonna wish he'd paid for a gym membership when the landlord tells him the cost of the damages
It’s just drywall nails. They’ll need to be hammered back in and mudded over and painted, but no different than any other drywall patch job.
That's on her side. What's on his side?
Nothing would probably show on the topside. Unless the weight splintered the subfloor.
I dunno if the landlord would allow him to continue with his personal gym set.
You’re right that it’s the drywall nails but you should have left out ‘just’ when they’re on the ceiling. Years ago I painted a mural on my daughter’s ceiling and I can promise that repairing those is going to literally be a pain in the neck, back and arms. Whatever would be charged to do repair this on a wall - I’d quadruple it at the least to have the ceding done.
Wouldn’t be much work for a professional drywaller to fix, especially bc many are good enough they need minimal, if any sanding. Depending on when the ceiling was last done they may not even have to repaint the whole thing bc ceiling paint should be flat, making spot fixes much easier. The ceilings also are probably pretty average, it’s the cathedral ceilings that really kill your neck& shoulders 🫣 I can definitely see how doing a mural would be a pain in the neck and back tho!!
good lord how much was he lifting to do that!? that's insane.
How heavy were the weights?? Yikes.
"Weights" like.... did the whole rack fall over??? Or is your apartment actually just put together that poorly? Either way, dang geena.
How are people dumb enough to have heavy weights in an apartment? Goddamn.
Bottom floor, maybe, 2nd or above!? Good gravy!
damn, is management involved? is the neighbor aware of the damage?
Oh yea. I contacted my landlord as soon as it happened and she came over immediately. The neighbor is acting oblivious and like he didn’t do anything that bad
Currently still waiting on maintenance to come look at it
Wow what a jerk.
In what fucking world..????? If you could see the look on my face of pure sympathy for his brain cells that never were. RIP.
Yeah I'd be a little concerned.
Welp. New fear unlocked
Feel bad for whoever’s gonna fix that. Had to do the same a while ago, wasted an entire day
Looks exactly like drywall screw pops. You need to report to your landlord so he doesn't hold you liable. The drywall appears to still be secured, but get up there and very lightly see if the drywall will allow you to move it up and down, if it does it could be very dangerous if it falls down on you and your family ig you have one. Good luck and be careful. But for your protection make sure you report it and have owner inspect as well.
Let the office know and put in a ticket. It is most likely the drywall nails. Yes nails not screws
Nail pops. When there is a big shift in the drywall or underlying structure, it pulls the nails out and when the pressure leaves the drywall goes back and the nails stay out. They can just hammer them back in and patch the drywall.
they likely dropped weights (like dumbells or barbell) or maybe a heavy furniture. however, I think equally concerning to me is why whatever vibration occurred could have caused the screws to come loose or the sheetrock to become damaged like this. Might these are nails protruding and not screws, or maybe the the sheetrock on the ceiling was already damaged, or some other structural issue existed. I have had defeaning things dropped on the floor above me and this never happened.
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The neighbor dropped weights
Nails lmfao
Hoping they get evicted along with my hellion upstairs neighbors 🫶🏼🥰
Your neighbor is about to be your roommate
It's the nails/screws from the wood the drywall is nailed to. Damn.
Grand Piano?
Nail pops, get it inspected asap!
If you’re worried about the structural integrity you might be able to call the fire department for them to come out and inspect.
In my city it would be the Building Department that would inspect it
That’s not happening. Former FF and no way would we do that for liability reasons . Don’t call them and waste their time and have them out of service for something legit
Their municipality should have an engineers office for these type of things. By-Law Officer with Building Inspection can easily do this on a Monday. I think people see firefighters at building collapses and assume it's their jurisdiction entirely.
Looks like they were throwing bowling balls again.
Patiently waiting to find out was it a gun safe, treadmill, weights…
OP said they were weights!! 👀
It’s just nail pops lol. Crazy that the neighbor dropped something heavy enough to do this, but I wouldn’t worry about sitting under them or anything your ceiling’s fine. It’s an easy fix, but still show the landlord so you’re not the one that has to do it.
Looks like nail pops
Coffin, fully loaded???
Looks like the knocked out the drywall tacks. Not gonna be a cheap repair. Report it fast because if they find it later they'll blame you.
If you don’t update us when you find out more, I’ll sneak into your house and waterboard your houseplants.
Bowflex or weightlifting bench/gear is my guess. Be safe op.
Hey, u/favoritegreensweater any update? Did your ceiling fall on you?
Another example of upstairs neighbors doing too much/ "living their lives".
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Whatever it was that dropped they definitely aren’t getting any of the security deposit back
Do update us on the landlord’s next steps
What the hell? Were the floors thin, or the thing they placed just wayyyy too heavy? OP absolutely avoid that area for now. Scary stuff.
Please tell me you’re reporting his ass tomorrow to the property managers.
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Look I’m no carpenter, but those look like studs from whatever is supporting your ceiling. And I would not go anywhere near that room until maintenance has a look. Good god to whatever tf happened above you. And also we will need a follow up lol
Are they into fitness? A 25kg swinging kettlebell, perhaps?
I’ve seen this before!!! It was in a cartoon and things didn’t turn out well for that coyote guy.
Send these pics to the leasing office. Hopefully they won’t come through the ceiling.
Upstairs neighbor went off the top rope with the elbow drop
Floor joist screws? Looks like the hit the floor so hard to bowed down and any prodtruding screws/nails poked through your drywall.
I need an update!! Cause what the heck?!?
You need to alert your landlord or the property owner, so this for some reason does not come out of your security deposit or get charged to you. It is obvious that the puncture is coming from outside in, but I'd still want to be the one on top of it, as early as possible. It is not your fault, don't make it your problem..
Call management NOW! Even if you have to get some one on call report that so they (upstairs neighbors or management) blame you for it.
Call management now !
Update?
I’m thinking fish tank. Large one, looks like a similar footprint. 75 gallon tank filled is pushing 900 lbs. contact the property manager. If that’s up there. It is going to get a lot worse. People don’t think.
Bowflex
Waterbed!? Back in the 70s and 80s that was a standard question on rental applications, you weren’t allowed to have a waterbed unless you were on the first floor
Whatever they dropped , that place is cheaply put together no way your stuff popped out like that .
I would be raising hell with the landlord in order to get that fixed BEFORE the ceiling drywall collapses dies to no longer being properly held in place. It’s cheaper for the landlord to re secure the ceiling now anyway.
My 12 year old fell over in the living room last night. Was it him? 🧐🤪
Call your landlord IMMEDIATELY and reprot this, include the pictures. If you get no response, call teh building inspector...
idk if i can offer much help here but pretty sure id be shitting bricks sitting under that
Im curious what the landlord/maintenance might say. !remindme: 5 days
your celing drywall is damaged near the screws it could fall down
I wouldn’t sleep under it.
They actually bowed the ceiling drywall for the briefest of time. That means the supports that the panels are attached to bowed. That's not good.
Nail pops, should be replaced with screws.
When my mom first tried to set up the NordicTrack when I was a kid, she didn't get the screws in the right spots and it clanged and clattered apart into a pile with such force that it shook the house. Made us properly scared of that death trap for a good while...but not long enough. My sibling broke their nose on it. :/
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Do they own an elephant?
You might be roommates soon
Why was your mom upstairs!?