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As part of a coop renovation our GC is leveling the floors (old building that settled) by sistering joists and installing a new subfloor/floor. The work affects the 80 year old ceiling in the apartment downstairs, resulting in bits of plaster falling. There has been water damage to those ceilings before.
What's the best way to protect the downstairs ceiling? (and me from an irate neighbor, who has already filed a DOB violation about ceiling collapse, despite an engineer's report that there is no structural damage).
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The vendor should have told you that there was a real possibility of the work impacting ceilings; if it's an old building with plaster ceilings and a new sub floor is being installed, ergo, the ceiling below could be impacted. The prior water damage to this ceiling may have made this ceiling even weaker.
While there is no structural damage being done, if the ceiling in the unit is being impacted (bits of plaster falling), it's simple: you fix it.
Suggest you have a contractor enter the unit and cover the ceiling with a (thin clear) drop sheet so that falling plaster is not all over the persons furniture and flooring. Post the leveling floors work, address the ceiling and get it fixed. And if that's includes replacing plaster with drywall, then you do it. The owner should not be responsible for this.
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