Covering a popcorn ceiling with prepared ceiling planks prepared ceiling planks are fiberboard planks made especially for this purpose.
Plank ceiling over popcorn.
One well known product is armstrong s easy up grid system.
I ll venture out and say that covering popcorn ceilings with planks is a fairly straightforward and easy process as much as any home renovation project can be i suppose.
The planks took the ceiling from being an eyesore to being a beautiful feature in the room.
Without having the tumble through the ceiling incident this was a project that could have easily been done in a day but it took us a couple hours on day 2 to wrap it up.
We fixed this problem easily and inexpensively starting with our girls room.
It s still covered in popcorn but since we re doing the planks we didn t see any point in.
Learn how to plank a popcorn ceiling the easy way with planked plywood.
That being said i m still super glad that stuart took the reigns and was able to get it all started.
Removing a popcorn ceiling is a messy time consuming job.
Most options easily install directly over your existing popcorn ceiling using the easy up track and clip installation system.
The next step is to replicate the blue painted wood ceiling in the inspiration photo up above so this week kev and i are going to head back over there and install 165 square feet of sea salt painted wood planks on the center part of the ceiling.
Learn how to plank a popcorn ceiling the easy way with this planked ceiling tutorial.
How to plank over popcorn ceiling.
When we moved into our 1920 s home every ceiling in our house was covered with texture.
The planks are installed onto metal channels that are placed over the old ceiling and screwed to the ceiling joists.
The boards we used are very thin so there wasn t an issue with adding the small depth around the vents and fixtures.