i fell through a ceiling

dominatrix1 · 14 Mar 2010 at 11:39

Basically was round a friends house and i walked into their bathroom and fell through their ceiling, their land lord is now threatening to evict them does anyone knwo anything i can do to stop this. Maybe threatening to sue , is that in my rights?
thanks

Scythe · 14 Mar 2010 at 11:41

What? You walked into the bathroom and the floor collasped?

m@rty · 14 Mar 2010 at 11:41

twist3d0n3 · 14 Mar 2010 at 11:44

erm i'd say you're the ones who can do this landlord guy rather than the other way around... if (as the impression is given) that the floor gave way for no reason, the sue for him not keeping the house in a livable state.

alexakasloth · 14 Mar 2010 at 11:44

I think we need more details than "fell through the ceiling" are you hurt?

dominatrix1 · 14 Mar 2010 at 11:44

yeah and i was getting held up by two joists in a bit of pain now

setter · 14 Mar 2010 at 11:45

It should be your right to sue, obviously the condition of the building is unsafe, as a landlord surely he is responsible for the upkeep of the premises.

dominatrix1 · 14 Mar 2010 at 11:45

nothign broken am bruised and cut but could have been much worse

dominatrix1 · 14 Mar 2010 at 11:46

thats what i thought , am not really bothered about suing more about not getting them evicted

alexakasloth · 14 Mar 2010 at 11:46

dominatrix1 said:
nothign broken am bruised and cut but could have been much worse

Could have been, but you still got injured because of his property not being in a suitable condition. I'd say sue him, he sounds like a right idiot.

unwashed potato! · 14 Mar 2010 at 11:48

maybe him threatening to sue was a quick defensive action to throw you off from thinking you can do the same as you may now just panic about a possible big law suit and not how you can sue him.

is anyone stll in the house? if you're serious about taking action against him, or even serious about others lifes then i'd get everyone out immediately. house could be unsafe and ready to fall down any minute.

don't sue if it's not needed, if you're ok other just a few cuts etc then get on with your life, don't ruin his for a quick bit of cash. i'm sure he wasn't aware the floor was about to fall through yet still let you walk around on it. he sounds like a guy who is unsure what he's doing as it's a crazy place to be, knowing the house you own with people in it is falling apart people tend to act a little weird. give the landlord the benefit of the doubt before calling him an idiot people.

when did this happen? part of me is thinking the op and friends are probably students, and probably cause all sorts of problems for the landlord, and could possibly have come home from a saturday night out really drunk, messing around, and then jumped from the bath onto the floor, resulting in the guy falling through it.

.Simon · 14 Mar 2010 at 11:49

Why did it collapse? Is there evidence of water leaking?

SlyReaper · 14 Mar 2010 at 11:51

That landlord has some nerve threatening to evict over this. He's the one in the wrong here, not the tenant.

Stretch · 14 Mar 2010 at 11:52

You don't just fall through a ceiling without there being something obviously wrong with it.

What we're you doing at the time? Was it rotten, badly constructed or bits missing?

dominatrix1 · 14 Mar 2010 at 11:54

it was a bathroom so much have been structually unsound some kind of leakage in the pipes

Coldzero · 14 Mar 2010 at 11:56

TFleming · 14 Mar 2010 at 11:58

The landlord cant do **** if you didn't tamper with anything.

dominatrix1 · 14 Mar 2010 at 11:59

Mammalian said:
maybe him threatening to sue was a quick defensive action to throw you off from thinking you can do the same as you may now just panic about a possible big law suit and not how you can sue him.

is anyone stll in the house? if you're serious about taking action against him, or even serious about others lifes then i'd get everyone out immediately. house could be unsafe and ready to fall down any minute.

don't sue if it's not needed, if you're ok other just a few cuts etc then get on with your life, don't ruin his for a quick bit of cash. i'm sure he wasn't aware the floor was about to fall through yet still let you walk around on it. he sounds like a guy who is unsure what he's doing as it's a crazy place to be, knowing the house you own with people in it is falling apart people tend to act a little weird. give the landlord the benefit of the doubt before calling him an idiot people.

when did this happen? part of me is thinking the op and friends are probably students, and probably cause all sorts of problems for the landlord, and could possibly have come home from a saturday night out really drunk, messing around, and then jumped from the bath onto the floor, resulting in the guy falling through it.

Yeah they are students and obviously have caused him a bit of troubl dont think they were on great terms anyway, but still was not their fault , am not bothered about money just dont want them to get evicted

^TANK^ · 14 Mar 2010 at 12:01

Thread is useless without pics tbh!

Stretch · 14 Mar 2010 at 12:02

dominatrix1 said:
it was a bathroom so much have been structually unsound some kind of leakage in the pipes

Even so to "fall through" the ceiling is a pretty major structural failure. There must have been signs of this happening years ago. It doesn't go from being a perfectly sound floor to people falling through it in a couple seconds.

TFleming said:
The landlord cant do **** if you didn't tamper with anything.

It was like this when I got here... honest.