Ray White Beecroft had an interesting Property Management problem the other day when a rental property was found to have a ceiling starting to collapse. Removing the gyprock exposed the joists that are meant to hold the walls of the house together, and guess what. The house is about 12 years old and the original owner-builder had used the wrong type of wood clamp, and had fitted the gyprock ceiling alinged the wrong way. The weight of the roof was forcing the walls apart, and the joists were not fastened in a manner sufficient to take the strain, so the joist clamps had started opening out, allowing the walls to move apart, as in this photograph.
We did a temporary repair until the end of the tenant's lease, then to fix the problem we had to remove all the ceiling gyprock panels, jack up the joists (and hence the roof) until the joists touched again, and use the correct clamps, then fit ceiling gyprock aligned along the joists to add stiffness.
Remarkably, we had new tenants signed up ready to move in before the repairs were finished.
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