I know it’s going to be a huge mess but has anyone ever done this themselves or had a company do it? I have 4 rooms in my house along with a bathroom I want it out of. Was it very costly?
I know it’s going to be a huge mess but has anyone ever done this themselves or had a company do it? I have 4 rooms in my house along with a bathroom I want it out of. Was it very costly?
Comes off easily.............. If it wasnt painted or mixed with paint when sprayed.
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Often, the drywall underneath the sprayed ceiling is not properly finished. Get rid of the popcorn by wetting it down and scraping and you've still got a mess underneath it. In many cases, you'll have to install new drywall and have it properly finished and painted. It's like opening up a can of worms.
I did it. Spray with water in a low pressure sprayer to get it damp and scrape it off.
We are putting our house on the market soon, so have arranged to have 3 rooms and front hallway done this week. Cost is $450 Canadian a room, around $350 u.s. I'm putting in pot lights ahead of time, but there's no way I could finish the ceiling as good, or as fast, as the 'pros'.
My wife hates it, so any house that we buy that has it, she has to remove it. So far, all has come off easy. Big mess though and you’re obviously gonna have to re-texture when done. I bought the cheap texture gun from Home Depot and it turned out ok, not professional; but it wasn’t too horrible for a rookie. When I remodeled my mother in laws house, I sprayed it with paint lightly and luckily it didn’t fall off. Looked better & clean afterwards.
I remodeled two rooms and had a drywall contractor come in and cover the popcorn ceiling with 1/4" drywall. Looks great and only took a couple of days from start to finish.
You can get a scraper from hardware store that holds a grocery bag and it will catch most of it. As stated above most with water and scrap away. He done many, easy job
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I removed popcorn in the entire 3 bedroom house we had. Use a garden sprayer and lightly spray an area and let it sit for a few minutes and scrape off with a wide texture knife, it should come off very easily, be careful not to gouge the sheet rock. Yea it was a mess, lay down plastic on the floor and just roll up the plastic with the old texture and throw away. You will have to touch up the joints with a skim coat of mud then spray new texture on the ceiling, you can get a cheap texture gun for about $30. I did a knock down on mine it was the easiest for me. You can re-paint or use a bright white mud and just leave it that way. If you do it yourself it`s very cheap to do. There are many utube on how to do it.
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Wide blade putty knife, or Sheetrock bedding tool, small putty knife for corners, spray bottle of warm water, ladder, goggles and dust mask, and enough visqueen to cover the floors. That’s all it took me. It’s a mess for sure, and you’ll need to be prepared to do some sheetrock muddling if the ceiling wasn’t finished smoothly as many aren’t. It’s time consuming, but not too hard. Be prepared to just roll up the visqueen and throw it all away.
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I've done it. It comes off easy. Just dampen it with a sprayer, give a few minutes to soak in and scrape it off. Messy though. There are some good You Tube video's on how to do it.Originally Posted by skeeterj01
Very easy to do just a huge mess. If you can find the shoe protectors like hospitals use them be cause that stuff will cake up on your shoes. Good advice in all the posts.
Did it many years ago and it is a mess. I believe we got something at Lowe’s that you can spray on that makes it easier to come off. Some parts took a lot more scraping and other spots came off real easy. It looks a lot better when removed. Good luck.
They make a drywall sander that hooks up to your shop vac. That’s how I removed mind. Really cuts down the dust. I rented mine be from a rental place you could always be y one then resale it
Test it for asbestos before removing it. It’s a simple test. Scrape some off in a closet and send it in to a lab. Inexpensive and you really need to address how you proceed removing it. Whether you hire a company trained in asbestos removal or you do it yourself you need to take precautions.
That being said as stated above it’s fairly easy to remove. Just have a drywaller come in and retexture.
If the house was built before 1978, then there is the likelihood of asbestos being present in the "popcorn." So sanding it would be a no no. The best way to remove it has been mentioned
in the earlier posts. Moisten the material and scrape off. The water keeps the dust down to a minimum and wear a particulate mask as well.
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I've done a fair number of removals: spray lightly with water and scrape with a 6" taping knife. Cover the floor with disposable plastic prior. Most ceilings that are textured will only have one coat of mud over the joints, so expect to pull another coat on everything. After the seam coating, I'll hit the whole ceiling with a power drywall sander to knock off remaining texture bits. I generally give the whole ceiling a light skim coat with a 16" flat trowel to fill in any remaining texture and damage from the scraping. A final sanding and it's ready to paint.
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Go for it. That's a good price for both parties involved. Make sure they encapsulated the work area. The dust that is as fine as cigarette smoke likes to wander the house.
Hook shop vac to scrapper.
3.00 sq ft to remove, mud , sand and paint back to a slick ceiling is the labor I charge. Not hard as long as it hasn't been painted with oil base before, but is a lot involved from start to finish. . Just finished doing an entire house last week.
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