So much for the deposit...

Peyton Manning

Was talking to a friend who's in college in Limerick. Apparently they were messin with one of their housemates and unscrewed his door to his bedroom and hid it up in the attic. After a few hours they told him, he went up to get it - 10 seconds later yer man comes falling arse first through the roof bringing half the ceiling down with him. Bye bye €500 deposit. Thought it was funny enough to share.

The_Minister

If he was in the attic, then it should be OK to walk in. That sounds like the house was in bad repair.

Redrocket

ehh ive never been in an attic that was ok to walk in
most attics have not got a proper floor in them to walk on, just 10mm of chalk board covered in glassfiber, floorboards would prevent him from falling through but most attics dont have these???
sounds like he has never been warned about walking in attics or his foot slipped

Peyton Manning

The_Minister wrote:

If he was in the attic, then it should be OK to walk in. That sounds like the house was in bad repair.

Student house. Nuff said.

The_Minister

stevenk, we keep stuff in our attic, and you can walk thhrough it without going through the ceiling,

Rabies

The_Minister wrote:

stevenk, we keep stuff in our attic, and you can walk thhrough it without going through the ceiling,

Most attics wouldn't have a solid floor. My parents attic is like Aladdins cave of old junk. All balanced on the ceiling beams and the odd length of wood for smaller items.
I nearly put my foot through it a few times over the years.

Easy to do, not easy to fix

Black Swan

Anyone complain to the slum lord?

Redrocket

probably should not have been in the attic
we hid so many things (broken) on a previous landlord, posters on doors and ceilings to cover up holes, rugs and mats or move chairs around for floors or carpets.
we had a staighre in that house, the very very first thing before i even went into my bedroom was the attic mind you i didnt fall through

rugbug86

yea, we had to stop putting christmas decorations up the attic cos they were just so hard to get down - that whole not being able to get into the attic was a major problem!

Wertz

Slum? :rolleyes:

FFS people, standard houses don't have proper floorboards in their attics, only roof joists that you need to walk on....any one who's never been up in an attic usually finds out the hard way what happens when you stand on the plasterboard , like me back when I was a kid and had to go up into the attic of our house to free up the ballcock on the water tank (before it overflowed)....wertz jr comes through the plaster board feet first over the landing and by the sheer grace of luck, avoids rupturing himself on thehandrail of the staircase.

To the OP; not that hard to fix if you're anyway handy, new sheet of plasterboard, slabbing nails and a saw....rip the whole slab down that he's come though (assuming it's only one), clean the edges breaking away any old skimcoat, nail up your new slab (16-24 nails) to the joists then either get a plasterer to skim the area or try doing it yourself. Allow to dry fully and paint with matt white.

I know if it was 500 quid I was gonna miss out on that's what I'd do....chances are that if the landlord has to pay to have someone do it then you'll both loose the deposit AND end up owing him more money.

Lump

Wertz is right, You have to walk on the joists in an attic, unless you've specially laid floor boards across them.

John

jesus_thats_gre

Blue_Lagoon wrote:

Anyone complain to the slum lord?

Up there with some of the most retarded posts ever on boards.

The gimp was in the attic. He was messing. Plaster board is not meant for walking on unless. You should not walk on the plaster board or you will fall through. This is the case in both the nicest and worst houses, and is not indicative, in anyway, of a slum or the landloards treatment of their tennants.

Terry

that guy must have been really hammered. i came home one night and one of my friends was off his head in my attic (no, i have no idea why he got up there) and even in his drunken and pilled up state he managed to not fall through the ceiling.

LundiMardi

i've never been in an attic that wasn't converted...

I guess my idea of an attic is a small dingy room covered in cobwebs and rats and bats... Why would i want to go up there?

Terry

i've never been in my own attic.

Capt'n Midnight

AFAIK the practice of flooring attics stopped because of the timber shortages in world war one.

Of course nowadays joists are twice as far apart as they were back in the 60's so it's a trend that's getting worse despite the higher "cost" of modern houses.

Wertz

With housing costs the way they are, I'm always amazed that builders don't make an extra bedroom out of loft space (that in the majority of new houses remains seemingly unused) and add value for the buyer; I mean it's far cheaper to just "convert" it at time of construction than it is to get it done after the fact...
Also with the lack of any real chimney in a lot of new homes, the impedance to shaping a room out of the attic space is gone.
But that's waaay OT; bottom line is if you're going into the attack, bring a torch and mind your step.

brianthebard

Why would a builder do something for a person unless they were asked several dozen times???

OP has the landlord seen the damage yet?

Peyton Manning

Not yet. They nailed most of it back up and covered the cracks with some putty and covered the whole thing with a dodgy garth brooks poster. So Im led to believe anyway.

Capt'n Midnight

The thoughts of it :eek:

Lying on your bed and having the anti-hank staring back at you
*my eyes*

Mossy Monk

Archimedes wrote:

covered the whole thing with a dodgy garth brooks poster.

surely a give away that its hiding something. who puts up a picture of Garth Brookes unless they are hiding something

brianthebard

Archimedes wrote:

Not yet. They nailed most of it back up and covered the cracks with some putty and covered the whole thing with a dodgy garth brooks poster. So Im led to believe anyway.

If it hadn't happened so early into the college year they might've gotten away with that!

If they can fix it up better then he might never need to know...but landlord's have a sixth sense for smelling these things out...

Dave!

julep wrote:

i've never been in my own attic.

Is that cos of the ghost?

My attic is like most people's -- dark and dodgey, and you can only stand on the beams of wood or else you're goin through the ceiling.

markk06

The thing that i dont get is how you fit a front door in your attic??

Capt'n Midnight

markk06 wrote:

The thing that i dont get is how you fit a front door in your attic??

The tricky part is finding a doorstep big enough.

Wertz

Archimedes wrote:

Not yet. They nailed most of it back up and covered the cracks with some putty and covered the whole thing with a dodgy garth brooks poster. So Im led to believe anyway.

Personally I'd prefer the gaping hole, the draught, the dust, cobwebs, bats and assorted insects to your option...

markk06

Capt'n Midnight wrote:

The tricky part is finding a doorstep big enough.

worst joke ever

netwhizkid

This reminds me of something very funny which happened to a grand-uncle of mine in London about 6 - 8 years ago. He is over 70 but fit as a fiddle and does odd jobs etc. One day in his professional capacity he happened to be messing with the plumbing in the attic of this old *slum* Victorian house anyway it had a common attic as it was an estate and all the house were joined in a single terrace.

Anyways he managed to wander throughout the attic (thinking the problem maybe in the pipe up along) but tripped on a loose wire and fell through the plasterboard straight into the living room of the house about two doors up and landed on a mahogany table which he managed to break.

To make matters worse he set off the burglar alarm and the police came but to top it all off these were Jamaicans who lived in the house and they were like going mental over it and when he landed into the sitting room he had to baracade himself into the sitting room as the had some half mad sort of Rottweiler watchdog. The police then tried to arrest his etc. It was soo funny and you couldn't have planned it as good if you tried. The best part my self and my mother and father were over there at the time and saw the damage and got the full story. Luckily his insurance along with a considerable excess to him covered what was only minor costs for a new ceiling and a table plus clean-up and compensation for them.

Ruu_Old

Was your uncle, Frank Spencer?:)

netwhizkid

Ruu wrote:

Was your uncle, Frank Spencer?:)

No why? But man was it funny the only thing was he could have been seriously injured but instead fractured his elbow sore.

5starpool

I hope the house was 122 Elm Park, and that you damage it more. If it is and it is the same landlord that owns it now as when I was there (10 years ago) then you won't be getting your deposit back without a big fight anyways. Cnut.

Dan133269

yeah where's the house OP?

connundrum

A house mate put his foot through the ceiling in out house, he left it for about 2 months but it took 2 days to fix, and cost a helluva lot less than €500. €90 in total afaik