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How to you get the artex tape out? by digging out the artex until the tape can be seen? I'd guess that the original artex was done in the 1970s or maybe 1980s

Possible, but I doubt it as the cracks appear in places where there's nothing above in the loft and besides, the boxes in the loft are on boards so the weight is evenly distributed.

There was originally artex on the ceiling which was plastered over back in December 2010, just before we moved in, so no, it's not straight on plasterboard.

Thanks all for your suggestions, I was hoping to be able to get away with removing the loose plaster, priming/sealing the bare area with Blue Grit or something similar and then re-plastering the area and redecorating the ceilings. Replacing the ceiling etc will be too costly but yeah, I guess...

In my upstairs bedrooms there are cracks in the ceilings where the plaster has separated from the underlying plasterboard and looks like it's ready to fall off. The first two photos are bedroom 1 where the plaster is coming away from the ceiling and is pretty bad: The third photo is bedroom 2...