Cracks in bedroom ceiling

[Cracked ceiling 20]

Any thoughts on what has caused this?
Been ongoing since 2017 but gone full length this year

 

[securespark]

I'm not saying your situation is the same, but we have had cracks appearing in the house over the 25 years we have been here.

I was paranoid there was movement in the house and had a couple of surveyors look at them over the years. I was told things were OK. However, over the last few years,small cracks have appeared in the side wall, along with a crack in the ceiling of the front bedroom that ripped the wallpaper covering it. We had another surveyor over who diagnosed very slow movement in the roof structure and recommended some additional bracing timbers in the roof to stop it spreading.

Have you got cracking appearing anywhere else in the building?

 

[Cracked ceiling 20]

Thank you!
There are very faint cracks appearing in my sons room

 

[Koolpc]

Lath and plaster ceiling?

 

[securespark]

Thank you!
There are very faint cracks appearing in my sons room

Walls?
Ceiling?

 

[JohnD]

The shape suggests it is the joints failing between sheets of plasterboard. The sheets are usually about 8ft x 4ft. How big do yours look?

How old is the house?

Take some photos showing the structure of the roof timbers in the loft.

Do people and heavy objects go up there?

 

[Jurassicspark]

Lath and plaster ceiling?

Definitely not. Look at how the cracks are formed.

 

[Harry Bloomfield]

Lath and plaster ceiling?

Fairly straight cracks, so I would suggest plasterboard joins.. How old is the house?

 

[Cracked ceiling 20]

Hi the house was built around 1963 and we had a new roof in 2022

 

[Cracked ceiling 20]

Walls?
Ceiling?

Ceiling

 

[Cracked ceiling 20]

Definitely not. Look at how the cracks are formed.

Hi, what is your opinion please? Thank you in advance

 

[Jurassicspark]

Hi, what is your opinion please?

Answer the questions from post six.

And has anyone recently been in the loft?

 

[Harry Bloomfield]

Are you using the loft, as extra storage space?

Are you aware of those ceilings having been replaced with plasterboard, at some point in the past?

 

[Eccles]

It was not uncommon in the past to use nails to fix plasterboard and of course nails do allow movement. The blokes doing the job didn't care because they would be long gone before the movement began and cracks occured as a result. I suppose it should not be too difficult to replace the nails with the correct fixings which are of course drywall screws although I have not yet tried it myself. These screws are far less likely to allow movement if at all.