A group of seven students living together claim they told their estate agent for weeks of a widening crack on the ceiling in their lounge before the ceiling fell through. The women who live together at Ruthin Gardens in Cathays, in Cardiff, were so “shaken up” after their ceiling fell into the lounge and kitchen on Saturday, October 29, that one of them has gone home to her parents.
“Her mum doesn’t think it is safe for her to stay in the house,” one of the students said. The third year students at Cardiff University said they have noticed a list of problems since they moved into the seven-bedroom house in September, including a boiler that doesn’t work and a toilet that doesn’t flush properly. The crack growing in the ceiling and an increasingly “spongy and damp” bathroom floor directly above it was their main cause for concern.
Speaking while parts of her ceiling remained on the floor in the lounge one of the women explained: “Where the ceiling has fallen through there is a bathroom above it. As you get out of the bath and shower there is a crack in the floor and there is an identical crack below in the ceiling in the kitchen-lounge."
