I'm the adventurous type :D The house looks like it was built around 1900, so at least the plaster will be easy to get off.
The house I'm currently in was built in 1875 and when it was rewired in the summer, the sparky was working under the floor boards in the top bedroom (the house is three stories) and touched the main bedroom ceiling with his foot. Because all the ceilings (and a lot of the walls) are really old birch lath with really old plaster on, nearly half the ceiling caved in. I love old houses :lol: