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

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.

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

Eat it?????

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

Rich.

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.

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).

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

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

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...".

Got it in one.

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.



Rich.

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

They're sooo last year darling.

Rich.