Heh. The house we lived in the UK needed a couple of rooms doing, basically to get rid of the badly done 70s artex.
The guy who came in to quote said he wouldn’t touch it as the whole lot looked like it was about to come down.
Furniture went out, sheets went down. Ladders came in.
Took about 40 seconds for the living room ceiling to end up on the floor.
Then two days to tidy up.
Kitchen didn’t take much longer. Except I had to be a bit more careful round the units……
The stuff was about an inch thick (three or four distinct layers) and looked like it was held on to the beams with 100 year old tacks.
(Checked for asbestos first, luckily, as the dust cloud that went out of the front door basically filled the entire garden and covered the road……… and most of the neighbours cars, and gardens.)