Power Sanding Popcorn Ceiling

However the thought of manually sanding it off sounds so much worse than actually having to look at the ceiling itself.

Power sanding popcorn ceiling.

Popcorn ceilings can be seen as such an eyesore on an otherwise beautiful home. For easier scraping and practically no dust during popcorn ceiling removal use a garden pump sprayer to mist the ceiling and let it soak in for about 15 minutes before scraping. A sander is a planer tool and popcorn ceiling is three dimensional. When scraping popcorn ceilings you ll want to use a 4 inch utility knife or a drywall knife to chip away at the texture and create a smooth surface.

Dust free power sanding is by far the cleanest quickest and most professional way to tackle the job. So the first step in changing popcorn ceilings to knockdown ones is to get rid of the popcorn or at least most of it the carpenter lightly sprayed the ceiling with water working one room at a time. This was a picture of the kitchen with the popcorn ceiling and wallpapered walls. Start with a 4 foot 1 2 m area so the ceiling does not dry before you get to it.

You ll probably need to skim it with a thin layer of joint compound to smooth out imperfections then sand it smooth before repainting. You can t always sand off popcorn texture. It won t work about 80 of th. Don t fret if your ceiling is now clear but not.

Follow up with a sander that can handle the dust. When scraping a popcorn ceiling there is a very common belief that you can just scrape it and paint it. And i ve seen it do. Just wet and scape.

The popcorn will be sheared off by sanders that deal with the level as they were engineered to do. Do not saturate the ceiling but wet it thoroughly. If you want to know if you can sand off your popcorn ceiling texture i ll show you. Sand away any residue left behind by the old popcorn texture using a drywall pole sander and then roll on a coat of white ceiling primer.