dreaded popcorn ceilings -- advice
 

simply , what is the best and quickest way to remove a popcorn ceiling ?:(

i know i will get some irrelevant answers to a stupid question but that is why i love this site:rofl:

Re: dreaded popcorn ceilings -- advice
 

I took a hammer and chisel to mine. We were knee deep in spray on bubble shit, plaster and horse hair when I was called to work in Malaysia for a fortnight. That caused some domestic tension. I replaced it with a tin ceiling but, if one were intending to sell, drywall would do.

Re: dreaded popcorn ceilings -- advice
 

Re: dreaded popcorn ceilings -- advice
 

Hope one these helps.

http://www.naturalhandyman.com/iip/i...opcornoff.shtm

http://www.ronhazelton.com/howto/pop...ng_removal.htm

http://www.jasongraphix.com/archive/...rn_ceiling.php

Cheers
Steve

Re: dreaded popcorn ceilings -- advice
 

Eat it?????:D

Re: dreaded popcorn ceilings -- advice
 

We used a scraper and plenty hot soapy water. Add elbow grease. Worked OK.

Rich.

Re: dreaded popcorn ceilings -- advice
 

We've sorted a couple by scraping. Bloody messy and not terribly satisfactory. Next time I think we'll go down the drywall route. I don't mind losing half an inch of height, Souvette is very good at taping/mudding and I would like a flat surface for the crown mouldings. Putting those things up on popcorn is a nightmare.

On the subject of nightmares, we had one this weekend. We took out the hall closet, only to discover that the top rail for the doors had been screwed into the waste pipe coming down from the bathroom.

Re: dreaded popcorn ceilings -- advice
 

Really really easy - done loads of them! Just spray with plain cold water and scrape (I find a plastic scaper works best, such as the large dry wall type as it prevents 'dings' in the plaster board). Usually comes off very easily, but it IS very messy! Worth it though. :)

If you just want to paint over them - oil based paint is a must (or a suitable all surface primer first if you want to go water based).

Re: dreaded popcorn ceilings -- advice
 

I'm intrigued. What's a popcorn ceiling then?

Re: dreaded popcorn ceilings -- advice
 

Stucco (the rough stuff lazy builders spray up instead of finishing ceilings properly).

Re: dreaded popcorn ceilings -- advice
 

Ok so uh call me thick, but are these the ceilings that look like pebble dash polystyrene.......?????

If so my whole house if full of em.........duuuooohhhhhh


whats wrong with em anyway?, or is it a case of, "its sooo last year darling...".

Re: dreaded popcorn ceilings -- advice
 

Got it in one. :p:thumbup:

Re: dreaded popcorn ceilings -- advice
 

Memories of endless walls of woodchip wallpaper, magnolia paint put on with a yardbrush, cold damp terraces houses, outside toilets, Gran's stinky boiled cabbage, The Man From The Pru, overgrown yards and yapping dogs.

:confused: :blink:

Rich.

Re: dreaded popcorn ceilings -- advice
 

They're a bugger to clean. And try fitting a crown moulding snugly to the ceiling......

Re: dreaded popcorn ceilings -- advice
 

They're sooo last year darling. :mad: :lol:

Rich.