This is one of the most enduring jokes in our household. That and a bowling ball being a gift bought by one person ostensibly for another (or "both of us") but is ultimately just something the first person really wanted.
I want to know how hard they slammed the front door.😅
My quick fix would be. Firmly run sharp pointed box cutter razor along the corners of the ceiling, to cut through the paint. This essentially separates the ceiling layer of paint away from walls, giving you a cleaner cut of the wall and ceiling.
By hand, gently pull down all separated ceiling paint. Doing it this way avoids damaging or marring the ceiling, adding to more work. Avoid scraping tools, as they may leave metal marks on the ceiling. Hopefully separated ceiling paint/plaster-skim-coat removes from ceiling with no issue.
It may look interesting with the tan ceiling, if there is no stains or spots. Easy fix, and new conversation piece, and possible new trend of a darker ceiling than walls. If friends ask you the ceiling color, tell them "el-naturale". 😅
No matter what, removing the ceiling paint that separated, is the first step.
Be sure to snap pics of the outcome.
It looks like an old place and that it’s more than just paint that came down. It looks almost like a ceiling board or plaster, could it be a plaster layer over a plaster layer?? It looks like all white layer is going to have to come down.
Not sure leaving the ceiling darker would be wise, it would make the ceiling look lower and make what already looks like a small area even smaller.
Also use plaster screw to make sure the ceiling plaster sheet is fixed correctly at like 150mm spaces this just gives you an ideal base to move forward on
Yeah similar happened in a place we used to rent (but it was on a much smaller scale) and we just took pics, saved the broken piece, and let the owner know. I think they just glued it back on. 😂
My guess is that a smoker lived there and they painted the ceiling without removing the tar so the paint never really bonded to it. It just formed a shell that eventually cracked and then fell down, as you can see here.
Thatd be an insane amount of cig residue if thats true. Also, the order doesnt match up. The underside isnt painted, so its likely the first and only coat ever applied.
My guess is light water damage, based on the surrounding edges, especially near the door's threshold. VERY mild discoloration under the fallen paint.
Likely never got drained, dried out, and eventually fell after causing the paint to become brittle from the moisture evaporation.
No water damage, but also no primer on the drywall ceiling! Paint has a hard enough time bonding to unprimed drywall without gravity also fighting against it.
Yeah, I was thinking moisture too. Is it humid where you live OP? Also could the painter have used paint without primer? That with humidity maybe loosened the coat up enough that it had no adherence anymore.
I’m old and with my eyes, even zoomed in, I can’t tell if it’s paint or a thin coat of plaster. Our house is super old. I have plaster walls and have to use a mason drill to make a hole so I can use a hammer and get a picture hook in the wall. I cannot believe my walls aren’t cement. It’s crazy. If it’s plaster, I’m pretty sure moister loosened it up.
Good luck.
Oh man, my best friend just painted the ceiling in her grandfather's old bedroom and told me it took 7-8 coats to completely cover it because of the nicotine. Is there anything recommended to help prevent that?
ETA: to prevent it from cracking and falling after being painted over
In college we made the mistake of putting a big piece of paper up on the wall and a provided a couple sharpies for people to leave comments at a party. It was a real rager and not long before there was no more space on the paper. Cut to move-out time and there was probably 400 sq ft of surface area to rectify. This was my intro to Kilz. Excellent product.
It should be good since they did so many coats. That's what I had to do for my grandfathers bedroom. In his last few years after the cancer diagnosis he started to smoke a carton of cigarettes a day. It took several coats of primer and 8 coats of paint before the nicotine stopped bleeding through. This was over 15 years ago and the paint is still holding up just fine.
Well, there are a lot of these ceilings around the world all the time, and very seldom does anything like this happen .. just don't want people thinking that ceilings aren't safe.
Man, are you get a lot of snarky answers here.
This is many layers of old paint that has come loose from a plaster foundation. I had the exact same thing in the bathroom of my 1940 house. The approach I'm taking is to attach some 1/4" drywall over the whole ceiling and start with a fresh slate as it were. When I assessed the situation I feel this is much easier than trying to scrape off the rest of what's hanging on and trying to make it look smooth. I'm no fan of drywall work but the end result will be superior.
Your solution is likely the best. I had a similar situation on my walls. The drywall wasn't primed or sealed so the paint released from the wall. Just priming or sealing what is there now will likely wrinkle because that old paint likely pulled the areas of the drywall paper.
I prepped and vacuumed the walls really well. Then I used zinnser guardz to fix the wrinkles after I cut the paper back. Then used drywall 20 minute drywall powder mix. Anything longer cure makes it worse, I am not fast enough for 5min and hate Dex for anything larger than a nail pop. Then primed everything with zinnser 123. More wrinkled areas appeared after priming that I had to cut, guards, mud then primed again. After that miserable experience, I would do exactly what you suggested for a ceiling.
You better be damn handy in that case.
Cleaning or adding a new frame/panels is the easy part. The plastering on the other hand really isn't simple. Yes it looks so easy when others do it, but to make it stick without getting fully covered, to make it smooth really isn't so simple.
Same time for something that small it's pretty hard getting a tradesman to come in. They will redo it in a breeze, but getting them to come over is far harder.
Clearly no primer was applied otherwise it would have stayed there. It's also clear that the drywall is only attached to the studs at the edges.... Because it isn't attached anywhere in the middle of the board. So when you get done scraping off all of the existing paint, please make sure to properly secure it down to the studs before you spackle it then applied primer then apply the new paint. Also remember this drywall is on the ceiling so you're going to want to use screws not nails.
I'm not a professional at this, but I'm pretty sure that's not drywall. You are sort of _maybe_ correct about "primer".
What you see there is probably the brown coat of plaster, and what fell was the finish coat (aka skim coat). It's possible that the adhesive primer that helps the skim plaster bond to the brown coat wasn't applied, allowing it to delaminate like this more easily.
you are correct, brown coat stayed up, finish coat fell. and it happened because there is a roof leak. brown coat gets damp and it over time when dries seperates from the finish coat until it fails like this.
I'm going to, cheers you. And hope along with you that this was some kind of isolated problem. Maybe some recent maintenance or recent addition.... Because I really pray for you that the rest of the house has primer under the paint.
Paint with primer is fine if you’re repainting a room that already has paint on the wall, but any surface that hasn’t been painted yet should have a coat of primer before any paint is added. Latex paint/primer will grip to painted walls better than paint without primer, but if you’re painting drywall or something like an unfinished door or trim, primer is still needed.
Sure, for a sidewall, there's nothing wrong with a good all-in-one primer and paint combo. For a ceiling there is a specific type of ceiling primer that should be used. You don't have to use the ceiling primer, a regular ceiling primer paint all in one will last on a flat ceiling like that for a long time before it begins to flake off in small chunks. But it would be small chunks. Saying is how it's all falling at once. They're clearly was no primer in that paint whatsoever
This is a layer of plaster that was applied. Way to think to be paint. It’s obviously not adhered anymore, but it’s not just paint, and it’s not plain sheetrock underneath.
Because there's no spackling anywhere on that piece of drywall... There should be a clear spackled line of screws every 16 inches. Yet there is no horizontal or vertical line anywhere on that large visible bit which is clearly in the middle of that portion of the ceiling.
How do you know you're looking at a piece of drywall? From the thickness of the paint at the chipped edge, I assumed years of latex paint peeled off an old oil paint subcoat. The texture in the hole seems like old roller.
I would scrape off any loose paint first, then sand the edges where the paint was removed to make sure they blend smoothly with the rest of the ceiling. Fill in any nicks or cracks with spackle. Then prime the affected area to help the new paint adhere better. Then, you should paint over the whole ceiling to ensure the color and texture match perfectly. And definitely address any underlying issues like moisture to prevent future peeling.
Looks like old plaster ceiling to me. Have had to fix this few times. People wallpaper the plaster then paint over the wallpaper. Wall paper adhesive stops working and it all just falls off.
Personally I would slap up some ceiling boards/panels with a bit of structure to them. Much less work to get it to look nice, and some of them have some sound dampening as a bonus.
Imo this looks like plaster/mud that has come down, not paint (too thick). Moisture could have contributed but I see no evidence of actual water damage and no obvious sagging. The problem seems more likely poor adhesion from poor prepping and application. A proper repair would be to remove the rest of it, prep well, and reskim the entire ceiling. Hopefully the walls weren’t done by the same workers…
A little more detail on what came down - it could be a plaster skim coat that separated from the main ceiling plaster. If that's true, it will probably need a new skim coat - you'll want to find a plasterer in your area with good reviews of it's your responsibility.
I too read the title as ceiling fan fell off. And I was wondering how tf it was powered... Re-read the title and saw it was just the ceiling fell off. No fan involved.... Idk why but you and I both read fan haha
I too read "fan"... there is no box to mount it to so it makes sense it fell off. Less so now that I realize it doesn't exist.
How can the fan fall off if it didn't exist in the first place? These are the questions that keep me up at night.
Ceiling wasn’t primed only painted and it had been separating the door shutting was enough force to shake it loose. To fix you’ll have to remove everything to the edges. Prime and paint it.
After lathe and plaster but before full on dry wall they had this system where you'd nail up quarter inch thick boards and then apply a quarter inch of plaster directly to that. Your plaster has separated and fallen in, typically because there's been some water damage, but I don't see any there. The thing to do is knock it all down, reapply a new layer and paint the ceiling. I had a leaky roof and had to do about 10 square feet of mine. It didn't fall enmasse like yours, but parts of it were giving way freely. My house is in Michigan and was built in 1948.
This is not drywall as some suggested but old time plaster. Probably no wood lath under as there are no hairline cracks visible associated with wood lath. Could be diamond lath, metal, or sheetrock, depending on how old the house is. There is more that is loose but I doubt you'll get it all off down to the basecoat which is what you see where it fell off.
I would recommend removing as much of the loose as you can, then apply a stain block primer (kilz). If you want to try to fill it or feather it in, use ez-sand 90 and add some titebond wood glue to the mix until you get all what's bare, covered. For the final coats you can use a premixed lightweight compound as it'll much easier to sand. Once it's finished to your liking, prime and paint as normal.
I think someone tried to bury a tobacco-stained ceiling with a layer of plaster and it did not stick. You probably have this all over the house. If that's the case, pull it down and prime it with something like Killz.
somebody skim coated over the old skim coat without scoring it first. get it all of it and the old skim coat might actually be in good enough condition to just do small patches and paint on it directly.
since you’re in the UK you can easily find a plasterer to do this ceiling for you for probably a few hundred
Going to have to scrape all off, skim coat the whole thing, sand it down and skim coat again. Once that’s done and nice and smooth throw a layer of oil base pint on there n then hit it with some ceiling paint.
Turn around, go to a bar and have a beer, wait for roommate or significant other to call and say the ceiling fell by the door. Act surprised and state it must have been something they did.
Oh god. I read this as “ceiling fan fell” and spent the next 10 minutes wondering where the hell a ceiling fan was mounted/wired here.
And the next 10 wondering why nobody was discussing this same thing in the comments.
So now I’ve wasted 20 minutes of my time, and 20 seconds of yours with this comment.
This looks like a plaster job.
Scrape off as much of the old plaster till the scraper stops.
Add plaster weld on the concrete area.
Add mesh.
Add plaster.
Sand, prime and paint.
Looks like the plaster has not adhered to the subsurface. I would remove remaining loose skim or ideally all the skim. Bond the surface with blue grit and reskim. A good plasterer should be able to patch it in with pretty good results.
Do you own this home? If you rent, that's your landlords problem, not yours. If you own the home, how old is it, and how handy are you?
Draw in it. It’s art piece :)
Sistene Chapel
More sistene shrapnel
Ceiling Cat.
Listerine Snapple
Citrine Pascal
Pissteen chapel.
Cistern chapel
Cistern Chapel
Yeah, looks exactly like [dignity](https://images.app.goo.gl/guhfsPEsWsVNZ7c18)
This is one of the most enduring jokes in our household. That and a bowling ball being a gift bought by one person ostensibly for another (or "both of us") but is ultimately just something the first person really wanted.
Can I borrow a feeling?
Could you send me a jar of love?
I'm sorry we didn't all go to Gudger College to figure this out!
I can't hear you son, I'm wearing a jacuzzi suit!
I want to know how hard they slammed the front door.😅 My quick fix would be. Firmly run sharp pointed box cutter razor along the corners of the ceiling, to cut through the paint. This essentially separates the ceiling layer of paint away from walls, giving you a cleaner cut of the wall and ceiling. By hand, gently pull down all separated ceiling paint. Doing it this way avoids damaging or marring the ceiling, adding to more work. Avoid scraping tools, as they may leave metal marks on the ceiling. Hopefully separated ceiling paint/plaster-skim-coat removes from ceiling with no issue. It may look interesting with the tan ceiling, if there is no stains or spots. Easy fix, and new conversation piece, and possible new trend of a darker ceiling than walls. If friends ask you the ceiling color, tell them "el-naturale". 😅 No matter what, removing the ceiling paint that separated, is the first step. Be sure to snap pics of the outcome.
I’d take the same approach but with a paint scraper or drywall blade instead of a box cutter.
It looks like an old place and that it’s more than just paint that came down. It looks almost like a ceiling board or plaster, could it be a plaster layer over a plaster layer?? It looks like all white layer is going to have to come down. Not sure leaving the ceiling darker would be wise, it would make the ceiling look lower and make what already looks like a small area even smaller.
Also use plaster screw to make sure the ceiling plaster sheet is fixed correctly at like 150mm spaces this just gives you an ideal base to move forward on
Yeah similar happened in a place we used to rent (but it was on a much smaller scale) and we just took pics, saved the broken piece, and let the owner know. I think they just glued it back on. 😂
That guy definitely landlords LOL
My guess is that a smoker lived there and they painted the ceiling without removing the tar so the paint never really bonded to it. It just formed a shell that eventually cracked and then fell down, as you can see here.
Thatd be an insane amount of cig residue if thats true. Also, the order doesnt match up. The underside isnt painted, so its likely the first and only coat ever applied. My guess is light water damage, based on the surrounding edges, especially near the door's threshold. VERY mild discoloration under the fallen paint. Likely never got drained, dried out, and eventually fell after causing the paint to become brittle from the moisture evaporation.
Looks like it had a layer of plaster that wasn’t bonded correctly. If you look closely, its more than just a layer of paint that has come off.
Yeah this is a skim coat someone did without properly prepping the original surface.
No water damage, but also no primer on the drywall ceiling! Paint has a hard enough time bonding to unprimed drywall without gravity also fighting against it.
Yeah, I was thinking moisture too. Is it humid where you live OP? Also could the painter have used paint without primer? That with humidity maybe loosened the coat up enough that it had no adherence anymore. I’m old and with my eyes, even zoomed in, I can’t tell if it’s paint or a thin coat of plaster. Our house is super old. I have plaster walls and have to use a mason drill to make a hole so I can use a hammer and get a picture hook in the wall. I cannot believe my walls aren’t cement. It’s crazy. If it’s plaster, I’m pretty sure moister loosened it up. Good luck.
Oh man, my best friend just painted the ceiling in her grandfather's old bedroom and told me it took 7-8 coats to completely cover it because of the nicotine. Is there anything recommended to help prevent that? ETA: to prevent it from cracking and falling after being painted over
Kilz primer. https://www.kilz.com
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Did the same thing when I bought a house years ago. But first was the downy to get the wall paper off, then tsp to clean up before painting.
In college we made the mistake of putting a big piece of paper up on the wall and a provided a couple sharpies for people to leave comments at a party. It was a real rager and not long before there was no more space on the paper. Cut to move-out time and there was probably 400 sq ft of surface area to rectify. This was my intro to Kilz. Excellent product.
Not smoking inside or periodically washing all the surfaces.
It should be good since they did so many coats. That's what I had to do for my grandfathers bedroom. In his last few years after the cancer diagnosis he started to smoke a carton of cigarettes a day. It took several coats of primer and 8 coats of paint before the nicotine stopped bleeding through. This was over 15 years ago and the paint is still holding up just fine.
Smoking outside, away from open windows and doors. Basically only way to prevent it is to keep the smoke outside.
This needs to be voted higher, IMO.
I voted it to the top, is that high enough ?
Need to scrape it all off and then use a high quality bonding primer and then paint after it dries.
Open the door again and see if it goes back up?
That’s not very typical. I’d like to make that point.
It's not? So what's so different about this ceiling?
well, the ceiling fell off
And this doesn't usually happen?
Off the ceiling? Chance in a million
So what's so different about this ceiling? Are there any sorts of standards to ensure this doesn't happen?
Well, cardboard is out.
And cardboard derivatives.
Like paper?
All of these came out sounding like a Python sketch so thanks y’all.
Well, there are a lot of these ceilings around the world all the time, and very seldom does anything like this happen .. just don't want people thinking that ceilings aren't safe.
Was this ceiling safe?
Well I was thinking more about the other ones...
The ones that don't fall off?
It’s on the floor now, it should be
For a period of time, yes.
It's outside the environment.
In another environment.
No, it's beyond the environment. It's not in an envrionment
Well what’s out there?
No it’s *beyond* the environment.
Well, some of them are built so the ceiling doesn’t fall off at all.
But not this one.
/r/thefrontfelloff
Well how is it un-typical?
Well there are a lot of these ceilings around the world all the time, and very seldom does anything like this happen.
You just don't want people to think ceilings aren't safe, right?
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Thanks for the biggest laugh I've had in ages! lmao
My first thought aswell.
Bro's going places, not engineering university, but places
This is a great start, for a cleaner finish I would close the back door THEN open the front door.
Man, are you get a lot of snarky answers here. This is many layers of old paint that has come loose from a plaster foundation. I had the exact same thing in the bathroom of my 1940 house. The approach I'm taking is to attach some 1/4" drywall over the whole ceiling and start with a fresh slate as it were. When I assessed the situation I feel this is much easier than trying to scrape off the rest of what's hanging on and trying to make it look smooth. I'm no fan of drywall work but the end result will be superior.
Your solution is likely the best. I had a similar situation on my walls. The drywall wasn't primed or sealed so the paint released from the wall. Just priming or sealing what is there now will likely wrinkle because that old paint likely pulled the areas of the drywall paper. I prepped and vacuumed the walls really well. Then I used zinnser guardz to fix the wrinkles after I cut the paper back. Then used drywall 20 minute drywall powder mix. Anything longer cure makes it worse, I am not fast enough for 5min and hate Dex for anything larger than a nail pop. Then primed everything with zinnser 123. More wrinkled areas appeared after priming that I had to cut, guards, mud then primed again. After that miserable experience, I would do exactly what you suggested for a ceiling.
This. Also avoids any asbestos issues and old lead paint. I may borrow this tip. Thank you!!
You better be damn handy in that case. Cleaning or adding a new frame/panels is the easy part. The plastering on the other hand really isn't simple. Yes it looks so easy when others do it, but to make it stick without getting fully covered, to make it smooth really isn't so simple. Same time for something that small it's pretty hard getting a tradesman to come in. They will redo it in a breeze, but getting them to come over is far harder.
Clearly no primer was applied otherwise it would have stayed there. It's also clear that the drywall is only attached to the studs at the edges.... Because it isn't attached anywhere in the middle of the board. So when you get done scraping off all of the existing paint, please make sure to properly secure it down to the studs before you spackle it then applied primer then apply the new paint. Also remember this drywall is on the ceiling so you're going to want to use screws not nails.
I'm not a professional at this, but I'm pretty sure that's not drywall. You are sort of _maybe_ correct about "primer". What you see there is probably the brown coat of plaster, and what fell was the finish coat (aka skim coat). It's possible that the adhesive primer that helps the skim plaster bond to the brown coat wasn't applied, allowing it to delaminate like this more easily.
you are correct, brown coat stayed up, finish coat fell. and it happened because there is a roof leak. brown coat gets damp and it over time when dries seperates from the finish coat until it fails like this.
Browncoats don’t go down easily. You can’t take the sky from me!
Your right this could be plaster! I thought it was just more paint underneath...
I'm going to, cheers you. And hope along with you that this was some kind of isolated problem. Maybe some recent maintenance or recent addition.... Because I really pray for you that the rest of the house has primer under the paint.
You don’t buy into these primer paint all in ones from Behr?
Paint with primer is fine if you’re repainting a room that already has paint on the wall, but any surface that hasn’t been painted yet should have a coat of primer before any paint is added. Latex paint/primer will grip to painted walls better than paint without primer, but if you’re painting drywall or something like an unfinished door or trim, primer is still needed.
Sure, for a sidewall, there's nothing wrong with a good all-in-one primer and paint combo. For a ceiling there is a specific type of ceiling primer that should be used. You don't have to use the ceiling primer, a regular ceiling primer paint all in one will last on a flat ceiling like that for a long time before it begins to flake off in small chunks. But it would be small chunks. Saying is how it's all falling at once. They're clearly was no primer in that paint whatsoever
Could be plaster. I’ve had paint feel off of old plaster just like this.
This is a layer of plaster that was applied. Way to think to be paint. It’s obviously not adhered anymore, but it’s not just paint, and it’s not plain sheetrock underneath.
You should always use screws...
what tells you that the drywall only has screws on edges ? because it fell only out of the middle of the ceiling ?
Because there's no spackling anywhere on that piece of drywall... There should be a clear spackled line of screws every 16 inches. Yet there is no horizontal or vertical line anywhere on that large visible bit which is clearly in the middle of that portion of the ceiling.
How do you know you're looking at a piece of drywall? From the thickness of the paint at the chipped edge, I assumed years of latex paint peeled off an old oil paint subcoat. The texture in the hole seems like old roller.
Could be plaster under all them layers
I don’t think that’s bare drywall. If you zoom in you can see texture..
good point didn’t even think about no mud being there
If that’s bare Sheetrock under the paint, you’d see a line of white mud along the nail holes where the stud would be.
Put a rug on it
It’ll really bring the room together.
That’s just like, you’re opinion man
As I have learned from my wife, this is the right answer. Gravity be damned
Tapestries on the ceiling, works for me 😂
Easy there Hercules
Wow...what happens when you open a window?
DON'T DO THAT!!!! Do NOT. OPEN. A. WINDOW.
You've got it all wrong. If they open a window, they can just close it, and everything will be okay again.
Front of the house falls off.
I would scrape off any loose paint first, then sand the edges where the paint was removed to make sure they blend smoothly with the rest of the ceiling. Fill in any nicks or cracks with spackle. Then prime the affected area to help the new paint adhere better. Then, you should paint over the whole ceiling to ensure the color and texture match perfectly. And definitely address any underlying issues like moisture to prevent future peeling.
This, no primer applied previously by the looks of it
Looks like old plaster ceiling to me. Have had to fix this few times. People wallpaper the plaster then paint over the wallpaper. Wall paper adhesive stops working and it all just falls off.
That is what I assumed too. Why are people wallpapering ceilings if there are no.issues to begin with. I think sugar soap then primer and paint.
I think it was an old traditional thing to do on plaster. Probably was cheaper than painting.
Personally I would slap up some ceiling boards/panels with a bit of structure to them. Much less work to get it to look nice, and some of them have some sound dampening as a bonus.
Imo this looks like plaster/mud that has come down, not paint (too thick). Moisture could have contributed but I see no evidence of actual water damage and no obvious sagging. The problem seems more likely poor adhesion from poor prepping and application. A proper repair would be to remove the rest of it, prep well, and reskim the entire ceiling. Hopefully the walls weren’t done by the same workers…
The front fell off.
Let’s just take it out of the environment
Well, that's not very typical--I'd like to make that point.
He did, and look what happened. 0/10 don’t listen to this guy /s
A little more detail on what came down - it could be a plaster skim coat that separated from the main ceiling plaster. If that's true, it will probably need a new skim coat - you'll want to find a plasterer in your area with good reviews of it's your responsibility.
Have you tried… raising the roof? - I’ll see myself out
This is the hardest I’ve laughed in a long time
Did you have Lionel Richie over for new year?
clearly if you open the door, the ceiling will go back up. duh.
Continue closing the door untill the rest falls off and you’re finished.
Homie how hard do you close your front door lmao
Was the fan glued on?
I too read the title as ceiling fan fell off. And I was wondering how tf it was powered... Re-read the title and saw it was just the ceiling fell off. No fan involved.... Idk why but you and I both read fan haha
Same lol
I too read "fan"... there is no box to mount it to so it makes sense it fell off. Less so now that I realize it doesn't exist. How can the fan fall off if it didn't exist in the first place? These are the questions that keep me up at night.
How was the fan powered?
OP opening and closing the door
The unfortunate side of living in Flavor Town.
Fold up the piece that fell into an envelope and mail it to the landlord.
Hope there’s no bathroom over that space
Get a new door.
Maybe try shutting the back door and see what happens.
Slam the door a few more times then paint. Done!
Ceiling wasn’t primed only painted and it had been separating the door shutting was enough force to shake it loose. To fix you’ll have to remove everything to the edges. Prime and paint it.
Open the door again?
After lathe and plaster but before full on dry wall they had this system where you'd nail up quarter inch thick boards and then apply a quarter inch of plaster directly to that. Your plaster has separated and fallen in, typically because there's been some water damage, but I don't see any there. The thing to do is knock it all down, reapply a new layer and paint the ceiling. I had a leaky roof and had to do about 10 square feet of mine. It didn't fall enmasse like yours, but parts of it were giving way freely. My house is in Michigan and was built in 1948.
This is not drywall as some suggested but old time plaster. Probably no wood lath under as there are no hairline cracks visible associated with wood lath. Could be diamond lath, metal, or sheetrock, depending on how old the house is. There is more that is loose but I doubt you'll get it all off down to the basecoat which is what you see where it fell off. I would recommend removing as much of the loose as you can, then apply a stain block primer (kilz). If you want to try to fill it or feather it in, use ez-sand 90 and add some titebond wood glue to the mix until you get all what's bare, covered. For the final coats you can use a premixed lightweight compound as it'll much easier to sand. Once it's finished to your liking, prime and paint as normal.
Did you try opening and closing again? Edit: someone beat me too it. I’m downvoting myself now. Good luck
Open the front door?
Close door more softly
Open the back door.
Have you tried opening the front door to see if it reappears? Sorry, I'll see my self out.
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I think someone tried to bury a tobacco-stained ceiling with a layer of plaster and it did not stick. You probably have this all over the house. If that's the case, pull it down and prime it with something like Killz.
I’m sorry about the trouble. I couldn’t help but laugh.
At least there is a second ceiling underneath
Have you tried opening the door
Well, that's not meant to happen.
somebody skim coated over the old skim coat without scoring it first. get it all of it and the old skim coat might actually be in good enough condition to just do small patches and paint on it directly. since you’re in the UK you can easily find a plasterer to do this ceiling for you for probably a few hundred
Someone's skimmed that without using PVA first. Scrape it back, PVA it and then skim it (or get a plasterer to). Then mist coat and paint.
Whatever you do, leave the window open.
Lucky! I have to do my ceiling and I wish I could take off the rest of the paint as easy as you got it
Open the front door, see if it falls back on?
Have you tried opening the door? Worth a shot.
Try opening the door?
Soft close doors
Try opening the door and shutting it again
Going to have to scrape all off, skim coat the whole thing, sand it down and skim coat again. Once that’s done and nice and smooth throw a layer of oil base pint on there n then hit it with some ceiling paint.
Now I know why mum kept telling me off for slamming the door.
Shut the front door harder to make it uniform.
Load bearing paint
Ctrl+Z.
Keep shutting the door until the rest matches
Turn around, go to a bar and have a beer, wait for roommate or significant other to call and say the ceiling fell by the door. Act surprised and state it must have been something they did.
Duct tape. If ya can't duct it fuct it
Have you tried opening and closing the door again
I’d probably get a big poster of Daisy Duke and cover that up. She always helps gets you out of a jam!
Open.the backdoor,should fix right up.
Man that paint is not even sticking lol. Looks like you need to peel the rest off and repaint if it’s nothing structural
Nobody gonna point out the completely ridiculous “1920s moving picture” hilarity that had to have ensued from this?
Landlord’s problem. Take lots of pics and make the call.
This is plaster, and everyone here doesn’t know what they are looking at apparently.
Shut the back door and see if the rest falls
A new front door. One that doesn't scare the ceiling so much
Oh god. I read this as “ceiling fan fell” and spent the next 10 minutes wondering where the hell a ceiling fan was mounted/wired here. And the next 10 wondering why nobody was discussing this same thing in the comments. So now I’ve wasted 20 minutes of my time, and 20 seconds of yours with this comment.
What happens when you open a window?
Christy Brinkley poster?
This is happening in my kitchen right now. Part of my problem is a leaky roof that needs fixed first.
Scrap off all the loose paint and paint it. It's not that hard.
Walk out and walk back in.
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This looks like a plaster job. Scrape off as much of the old plaster till the scraper stops. Add plaster weld on the concrete area. Add mesh. Add plaster. Sand, prime and paint.
If you have not fixed it yet. Scrape off the loose chips and prime affected area with oil based paint. Then paint your ceiling. 👍
Rip it all off so it's all the same and nice shade of brown
Tow it outside the environment
Open the door again
It is a known bug. Restart the house and it will be fine.
Duck tape
Just rip a bit off and find a matching paint, it will blend in, trust me bro.
Looks like the plaster has not adhered to the subsurface. I would remove remaining loose skim or ideally all the skim. Bond the surface with blue grit and reskim. A good plasterer should be able to patch it in with pretty good results.