Out of interest, is my ceiling going to fall down?

[SuePurblybiltByElves]

Long crack along my ceiling and it's getting worse. The ceiling is (I think) plasterboard in big sheets, this morning a couple of small bits look as if they might fall down.

There's no problem in the loft and it's a bungalow so nobody above. Both rooms at the front of the house have it but the sitting room is much worse.

Any advice? Would sticky tape do it?

How about giving your buildings insurance a call and they'll probably send out a surveyor. Or you could call in a trusted builder for an opinion.
Maybe put on a hard hat in the meantime?! :)

Builder man just came and agreed it is very odd
He's coming back to check it, something about panels not being attached to joists or joists doing something. He assures me it won't fall on my head in the meantime.
I remain unconvinced

If your builder man's not worried it's probably OK (keep the hard hat on though!). You have my sympathy anyway - both our bedroom ceilings went badly awry after the next door property was redeveloped and we had to have them both pulled down and redone which was a major upheaval. Although on a positive note the remedial works, plastering and professional redecoration were covered under the buildings insurance.
So no more swirly artex ceilings :o

My kitchen ceiling "bellows" in one or two places. Basically - shoddy job when house built back in seventies - and plasterboard too short to attach to joists properly!! It will have to come down and be properly done - another job for the not too distant future but on the plus side its stayed up for thirty odd years....

My bedroom ceiling is like this and everytime we go into the loft the cracks get ever so slightly worse. The builder told me that its just the plasterboards not being fixed properly but not to worry as they've not come down in 50 odd years so they shouldn't come down on me. He suggested that when we redecorate that room we might like to think about replacing the ceiling if we're that worried.

One of my ceilings did this - though would have been about 150 years old at that point. The ceiling fell down, but it was just the plaster, there were no structural issues.