Anyone ever try to scrape Popcorn coat off the ceiling?

[StupidBird]

you have my sympathy. My sis and bil just did this to the majority of the house. Next they will tape, plaster and sand forever. and that's the way they did theirs.

 

[austin.ray22]

Well, I do have the benefit of not living in the house yet so I am not having to move and work around furniture. It has turned into a late night job because I work 8-5, then I own a business that requires some work from til about 9 each night, so I am working on this project after those hours. It is a little at a time but it will get done. Hopefully I can avoid hiring someone to do it for me.

 

[ranchhand]

I did the kitchen over a 3 day weekend. Just dry scraped with a ladder and a 4" putty knife. Tedious, thank goodness for a loud stereo. The result was worth the effort, hang in there!

 

[tobin123]

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done this for years and yes i get it wet then scrape it [spray it good and it will come off.Just be careful a lot of people did it to cover up inperfections and really bad one's.Now a lot of people are using it in a little better spackel form that looks good

 

[Sonoran Silkies]

When we bought our house it had popcorn ceilings (and had been lived in by smokers, and absorbed that odor for 25 years

(I am severely asthmatic, as is one of my sons, the other son has asthma as well, just not as severely)).

We tried EVERYTHING to get rid of the odor--what finally worked was hiring someone to remove the popcorn and re-texture the ceilings. I don't recall the bill, but it really was not huge considering the amount of wirk involved. Anyways, he used one HUGE plastic tarp for each room, taping it to the walls close to the ceiling, but leaving an overlapped opening for the door. Used a sprayer to wet it down; probably had something added such as the soap mentioned earlier, then a very wide (18-24" sounds right, but this was 12 years ago, so my memory may be inaccurate on details). It really came down easily, just a huge amount of mess. He wore stilts that allowed him to not use a ladder, but still be within reach of the ceiling. This probably saved a LOT of time as he did not have to worry about moving a ladder around. If I had known how simple it was, I'd have had it removed from our old house. I DETEST popcorn ceilings--I have no idea why they were common in the 70's.

 

[austin.ray22]

Thanks everyone. If anyone wants to come help, come on!

 

[ChickenCanoe]

If it were me, I would tear down the drywall to the joists and rehang. Faster, easier and prettier when you're done.

 

[ranchhand]

austin.ray22 :

Thanks everyone. If anyone wants to come help, come on!

Are you in Austin? The house I did is in S. Austin, on Redd St.

 

[EweSheep]

I redid the kitchen and bathroom and put on fresh popcorn ceilings. They are pretty tho but I'm having serious thoughts about it.

Kitchen is fine, no problems there.

Bathroom, well, after five years, I'm starting to get mold so it may be that we will have to scrape it off and put up smoother ceiling. Popcorn ceilings are NOT for humid rooms! I didn't know that and probably thought the paint was waterproofed but obviously it was not. So that would probably be a summer job for me to do. Instead of soap, I can use fabric softener with water, works very well with wall paper removal.

The rest of the house have popcorn ceiling but they will be taken down OR put up some tiles, glue it up there, hopefully they will stay there. I love those tin ceilings but with this house, no, it would make it loook smaller. Anyone "tiled" their ceilings? I dont like those false ceiling panels, I love the high ceilings of this old house. Oh what fun I am going to have!

 

[EweSheep]

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What my dad did, he put up drywall against the old ceiling but it worked quite well.