Sanding Down Popcorn Ceiling

Use a coarse grit pole sander across the whole surface.

Sanding down popcorn ceiling.

If you want to know if you can sand off your popcorn ceiling texture i ll show you. Be sure to sand evenly starting in one corner and moving across the wall. The popcorn finish should loosen and fall off easily. You may have to fill gouges tape the seams and sand the ceiling to create the ideal surface for a new coat of paint.

With his help we break down the three methods to redoing popcorn ceilings below. Popcorn ceilings can be seen as such an eyesore on an otherwise beautiful home. If you are sanding a popcorn ceiling wet the ceiling with water using a garden sprayer. Smooth out the stipple ceiling with a pole sander after using the electric sander.

If you do not want to scrape the ceiling or wall you can try sanding. How to scrape a popcorn ceiling. Sanding is probably a bad idea. There are tons of videos on youtube about this.

Popcorn ceilings were all the rage back in the 60s and 70s. The way that popcorn ceilings are normally handled and the way that i have removed mine is by scraping them down. Popcorn ceiling sanding read 41126 times 0 members and 1 guest are viewing this topic. However a knockdown finish will accomplish the same camouflage feature but be much more subtle in texture and effect.

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. But the rough texture catches lots of dust and cobwebs and it can be difficult to know how to remove popcorn ceiling. You can t always sand off popcorn texture. However the thought of manually sanding it off sounds so much worse than actually having to look at the ceiling itself.

Applying the texture to drywall and plaster ceilings was a quick and easy way to hide imperfections and didn t require any painting afterward. Start with a 4 foot 1 2 m area so the ceiling does not dry before you get to it. They re normally used for concrete leveling or stripping paint depending on the models i m referring to. Makita and porter cable make a large horizontal disc grinder sander that would level it down dry but with lots of mess.

The general process is to get a pump up garden spra. The main reason popcorn ceiling texture was used in the first place was to camouflage the flaws in the sheetrock or taping job. June 12 2018 at 2 10 pm. Remember that finishing the ceiling after popcorn removal will be of the utmost importance with this method.

This will knock down the stipple. I want to knock down our popcorn but i m nervous.