Replacement of lath and plaster ceiling problem

[AMc]

You were a bit vague about what your neighbours did that caused the ceiling to fail.

Did they reinstate the same flooring after the incident?
What was/is their floor covering?

We had a soil pipe leak into our Edwardian school conversion ruining the walls and the laminate on rag underlay over original concrete in our bathroom. When the managing agents finally sorted out the claims we paid for a tiled floor in the bathroom as an absorbant underlay under a permiable flooring was ... not good. The floor was tiled and we were very happy until we bumped into our downstairs neighbours. They wanted to know what we'd done in our bathroom as they could now hear "everything" when before they heard "nothing". Tiling the floor and fixing the toilet to the concrete meant they there was only a single skin of plasterboard between the loo and their bedroom. The irony being that they were the inspiration for tiling the floor and they also had neighbours below them.

 

[johnt0215]

Reference cause, it was an elbow on a pipe on a wall mounted central heating radiator just as it entered radiator which had probably been leaking for a considerable time the repair caused no upheaval to the upstairs neighbours situation, or had any major impact on the structure of their flooring.
Repair procedure: carpet pulled back slightly the floor board section lifted (which had been cut back from wall approx 4" when the central heating system installed many years ago) pipe tightened, board refitted and carpet refitted.
My meeting with the company who were instructed by the insurance to carry out the repairs went well (I believe) with the help of the various people who had responded to my message(thanks again!!!).
With the various links and information gleaned from the web sites I think I must have sounded like an expert on building regulations, gyproc properties,sound insulation and fire retardation times.
They have basically admitted that the original survey of the damage and repair instruction passed by their surveyor were incorrect and they were going to contact my insurance company to come to an agreement to rectify the situation.
So heres hoping!!

 

[skier-hughes]

That does sound like good news.

 

[AMc]

johnt0215 - I wondered if they'd gone for bare boards which would have made a big difference.
Your meeting sounds encouraging, good luck getting it sorted out properly.

 

[Pford75]

Congratulations - hope the outcome is what you want....sounds like you are heading in the right direction.

Love the glass in the door.

 

[fjpdesigns]

Definitely Art Nouveau- 1890ish to 1905 ish. Aubrey Beardsley [1872 - 1898] was working in the same period/style, .
Art Deco is considered to have been from the middle 1920's to 1939.[ What a bugger war is.]Rule of thumb; if it's flowing and got rounded corners it's Nouveau, and if the corners are square or angular it's probably deco. I am quite willing to be shot down on such a generalisation.

 

[johnt0215]

Whilst I await the ceiling problem being resolved:
Re the front door I will attempt to photograph the glass individually as the centre panels on each one has been painted with a different scene of a Scottish flavour i.e. Lochs, Castles, Highland cattle etc.
I spoke with a stained glass repairer in Glasgow who informed me they were all done in large workshops with different artists doing there bit, it would get fired then passed on to the next guy so you would have a number of different styles and artwork on the sections.
In our street from about 40 houses there are only about 4 with the original glass left all with different artwork, those with the original frames have plain or frosted glass the remainder plastic (sorry UVPC).
When we viewed the house a few years ago prior to purchase it was one of the main selling points for us, the seller said if they had'nt been moving they were going to rip it out and replace it with "glass block's" as she thought it was an eyesore LOL!!!
The storm doors and entrance had tongue and grooved wood panelling fitted in the 70's which I took great pleasure in removing but had to replace the architrave as it had all been chisseled off to fit the panelling.
Under the laminate fitted in the porch a beautiful terrazo floor!
Under the boxed and lowered porch the cast iron upper scrolls were still in place.
So its been great fun finding and returning the porch to its original 1906 glory.

 

[Gareth Hughes]

Definitely Art Nouveau- 1890ish to 1905 ish. Aubrey Beardsley [1872 - 1898] was working in the same period/style, .
Art Deco is considered to have been from the middle 1920's to 1939.[ What a [Bad Word] war is.]Rule of thumb; if it's flowing and got rounded corners it's Nouveau, and if the corners are square or angular it's probably deco. I am quite willing to be shot down on such a generalisation.

Bang!

Charles Rennie Macintosh did both, but he's Art Nouveau

Harry Weedon's Odeon cinemas are often saucily curvaceous, but they're Art Deco

 

[fjpdesigns]

True.
I'm dead.