Plymouth & Devon
A stained or bulging ceiling is water finding the lowest point it can. We make it safe, find where the water is coming from, and dry it before it comes down.
Plasterboard and lath-and-plaster ceilings hold water and sag under the weight. A brown stain is the early warning, a bulge is the ceiling close to letting go, and wet plaster around light fittings is an electrical risk. None of it should be left.
Caught early a ceiling can often be dried and made good. If it has sagged badly, cracked through or been soaked by contaminated water, we will say so and handle the strip-out and drying ready for re-boarding.
Plymouth's post-war homes usually have plasterboard ceilings, and a roof leak or a burst pipe upstairs shows up as a brown bulge first. We deal with it before it drops and check the wet floor above.
Yes. A water-laden ceiling can come down without much warning. Keep people out from underneath and call us to relieve the water safely.
Not always. Caught early we can often dry it and make it good. Badly sagged, cracked or contaminated ceilings are replaced.
Yes. There is no point drying a ceiling while it is still getting wet, so we find and stop the source first.
A real person picks up, day or night.