Prime with a PVA drywall primer before painting. If you are particular, you can then easily see remaining imperfections and fix them with a light mud application where necessary. Using flat ceiling paint will greatly minimize the appearance of surface imperfections. Always clean your drywall tools thoroughly between each use. Don't rinse excess drywall mud down any drain because it can set up in the drain.
Scrape it into a trash bag and then you can rinse the tools in the sink. Use a stud finder to find the ceiling joists and make pencil marks on the wall. This will guide you in lining up the sheetrock and attaching it to the ceiling. Sheetrock comes in several thicknesses. The thinner pieces are most suitable for going over existing drywall and won't add too much weight to the ceiling.
You will need help installing the sheetrock on the ceiling. If you can't find anyone to help you, rent a drywall jack at any rental yard or home store.
This is a simple hydraulic lift that maneuvers and holds the sheetrock into place while you install it. When hanging the sheets, stagger the seams and avoid having four corners butting together, as this creates a weak joint that will crack later.
Use drywall screws instead of nails, because they will grip better through two sheets of sheetrock and reduce the dreaded "nail pops" that often show up months after finishing a ceiling. A drywall screwgun will create automatic dimples by slightly countersinking each screw. I have a house that was built in the time frame. The plaster in some area's got wet and was breaking down. The previous owners answer was to put drywall over top of the plaster.
Yes it's a quick fix and may be your cheapest option until you actually need to repair it etc Or the drywall, plaster you covered starts to fail. I would not put drywall over your popcorn ceiling. I would pull it down and replace or scrape the popcorn aspect off. I have a few area's in which I have to now remove more then one layer of plaster, drywall.
Not to mention that some of the area's were on walls and the trim doesn't line up quite like it should.
The brother of the previous owner comes by and brag's how a family member helped her out by doing the drywall and it takes all I have not to make nasty comments. I've seen someone remove popcorn ceiling the same way as Ruthiegirl talked about. Plastic all over the floor, spray the ceiling with water until it's really wet and falls off. Respirator and coveralls. Frugalwoods Bristles Posts: Location: Vermont. We have popcorn ceilings and spent a good 6 months researching all possible avenues of amelioration.
We seriously considered everything. Know what we decided? We don't mind popcorn ceilings all that much! I seriously don't even notice them anymore. We instead spent the time and money on interior paint, new light fixtures, and new window treatments of course we did all the labor ourselves :. I thought the popcorn would be the first thing we'd change about our house but I also have decided I don't mind it and it's probably at least somewhat helpful as extra insulation.
We only have it in 3 rooms, which is not too bad. Our house was built in '73 and had popcorn ceilings when we bought it three years ago.
It tested positive for asbestos and we elected to remove it ourselves. As others have said, research on the proper methods is key. It was difficult work, but well worth the savings over having a contractor do it.
Hanging all the plastic sheeting takes most of the time, actually removing the popcorn about sq feet only took a couple of hours. Cleanup was a chore stuffing all that wet plastic into containment bags but taking it to the disposal center cost far less than I had planned.
Quote from: ontheroaderic on October 01, , PM. I'd get it tested before you go through the hassle - you may get lucky and not have to worry about it!
I think I still have a bunch of those containment bags left over too, I can dig around. We're in Westlake - you? Wow, thanks, Eric! We're still figuring out what we want to remove at this point- we'll have to disturb some popcorn in one bedroom in order to get to some ductwork that needs to be reattached, so we'll get that tested and go from there.
Glad to hear it wasn't so expensive to dispose of. I was afraid it would be in the hundreds! We're in Northmoor. Small world, huh? Wow, this brings back an unpleasant memory. When we bought our current home it had popcorn ceilings in most of the rooms excluding the new rooms in an addition. My wife wanted flat ceilings and I don't much like them either, so We had a month after taking possession before moving in, so I dutifully had a sample tested - no asbestos found.
I then got my stepladder, scrapers, mask and water mister thing, and got busy. It was damn hard work. When the house is being built, they know popcorn is going up and don't finish the seams as they normally would.
Post by weltschmerz » Thu Aug 17, pm deleted. Last edited by weltschmerz on Tue Jan 01, pm, edited 1 time in total. So I'm in the exact same boat. I just bought a townhome and waiting for escrow to close to move in. Home was build in and only assuming there's asbestos in the popcorn ceilings. My gf and I had planned on just scraping it, but after doing a lot of research I was too scared after realizing this could be a major health risk if there is in fact asbestos.
This seemed well over the budget with very little return, especially since the townhome is not worth that much anyway. I found the solution on covering it up with drywall. Drywall, too, does not seem entirely cheap, but is a little more DIY-friendly, given the circumstance. I finally came across Plank Wood Ceilings. I was instantly sold. It looks fantastic. You can stain it whatever color you want. I am fully willing to do it ourselves as it does not seem too difficult, but it is certainly something worth asking around to see how much they will do it for you.
Yes, you may lose maybe an inch in ceiling height, like someone mentioned, but based on photos alone, I think the look will actually make the room feel larger. I will share my experience when all is said and done.
I suppose this is not too different from your original "drywall over top of the popcorn" plan, but I don't like the idea of encapsulating the problem and then forcing someone else to deal with it down the road. As I recall there is a special very thin drywall that you can put on the ceiling so that is does not add much thickness. One issue is that all the electric junction boxes for the light fixtures will either need to repositioned or have some sort of extension added so that they will be flush with the new ceiling.
If you scrape the popcorn off there is a good chance that you will want to put up a new layer of the thin drywall anyway if scraping the popcorn off damages the old drywall too much When I have been house hunting I whenever I have seen freshly redone ceilings I have always been suspicious that the prior owner is trying to cover up water damage or something like cracks in the drywall from the house settling.
You may be in a no win situation. You will also likely need to repaint all walls in the house too so be sure to also budget for that. One option would be to give the buyer for a credit to have the ceilings redone since doing it after all of your furniture is moved out would make this a lot easier to do. A lot depends on your local real estate market but I don't know that taking the house off the market for a few weeks to do the work would be a good idea. Post by barnaclebob » Thu Aug 17, pm Inlaws got rid of popcorn ceilings.
Their contractor did the spray and scrape method and it worked very well. Just cover up anything that you want to keep clean. Popcorn ceilings are friable and a hazardous material, if asbestos containing. If you simple abut the drywall and screw it in, you have just rendered your entire ceiling hazardous for any future work. Screwing directly against it will crush the popcorn texture and the next time you drill into or a future owner removed the drywall, you have just released hazardous dust into your lungs.
There is no known safe exposure limit. AKA any exposure is bad. Post by Sheepdog » Thu Aug 17, pm I have to bring myself into this conversation again because removal by you may be hazardous to your and your family's health, and perhaps fatal.
It disturbs me that some do think that it can't harm you and yours. I was a manager manufacturing this and paints containing asbestos. I know now how hazardous it was and is to remove without protection. Test it, hire a professional to remove it and contain all dust particles from your house. It's the process of disturbance or damage that causes asbestos fibers to fly into the air. Once the fibers become airborne, it's possible to breathe them into the lungs, which can cause lung cancer, mesothelioma or asbestosis.
Post by renue74 » Thu Aug 17, pm Asbestos materials were banned in If this ceiling was done after that, you're safe. If you do test it and it has asbestos, you could be looking at thousands of dollars to properly remove it through an abatement company. Post by RobertonMIA » Thu Aug 17, pm I am looking at my popcorn ceiling right now and wonder if a solution would be to plaster the whole thing about a quarter inch deep, just deep enough to fill in around and cover the "kernels" of popcorn.
Then it would be a matter of sanding smooth and painting. It's a whole house job, excluding kitchen and bathrooms.
Starting to think my guesstimate of 5k is low, it's a sq ft house. Post by notmyhand » Fri Aug 18, am DH removed about square feet of it by himself over a weekend and we had cathedral ceilings.
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