hi,lads,there has been a little or lot of progress since i posted the thread about the ceiling coming down which i skimmed that i posted a thread about yesterday. the chap rang me today saying he'd had multiple opinions from various (former,timeserved)joiners & plasterers on why the ceiling came down. he said he wants myself & his mate who did the studing & boarded the ceiling to both pay for a plastic cadded ceiling to be installed, as we are both responsible. i refused point blank! i gave it 3 coats of skim 2 achieve the best possible finish as i could get it. the reason being it was plauged with valleys & hollows as his mate had done a s**t job period!!! probably skimmed it 5-7mm in the worst areas . all his profesional opinions are saying because i gave it 3 coats of skim,the sheer weight of it has brought it down. the whole 10m2 ceiling came down in 1 big mother of a sheet,just as his wife left the room. he said he finds it way to dangerous to have it boarded & skimmed again. his mate who he even admitted isn't that experienced,has said he maybe should of put up more studing & his screws he used may have been 2 small. i was like,well you have your answer,so why are you blaming me. he then asked me if i knew he'd done a bad job,why did i skim it? to which i replied,i've lots count of the amount of badly boarded ceilings i've skimmed & made them good. he's even had his engineer father round,who's pointing the finger at me. i also told him he should of gone with the joiner who i reccomended instead of having some weird obligation to his mate who isn't even a joiner. all the profesional advice he had recieved have also stated,i should of only give it a 1 coat skim,as that is all it required & it probably would of still been up there,if i had done that. your advice my friends as i feel this is heading for a small claims court!!!! cheers