Don t scrape your painted popcorn ceiling.
Convert popcorn ceiling to knockdown.
How to scrape popcorn ceilings fill a spray bottle with water.
Drop ceilings are often found in basements but you can use them in other spaces if you like the look they create.
Don t let it get too hard.
It will look a lot like the popcorn at this point but let it sit for about 15 20 minutes maximum.
The popcorn on your ceiling probably looked good to the people who installed it but they were living in another design era.
Fill a garden sprayer with lukewarm water and spray the entire ceiling.
Another option is to install a drop ceiling system to cover popcorn ceiling texture.
Although it does provide some.
Wet the popcorn ceiling.
Like this garden sprayer.
They cover fixtures and anything necessary.
Options to replace popcorn ceilings.
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.
I m going to show you how to skim coat over painted popcorn ceilin.
Try to spray the whole ceiling evenly.
Turns out creating a planked ceiling with hardboard isn t as straightforward as it might have been on a wall made clear by our falling ceilings but friends in the end we managed to find a way to create our own inexpensive and easy version of the diy planked ceiling effectively getting rid of that awful popcorn once and for all not.
Then we spray the ceilings lightly with water to soften the mud and limit the dust.
The grid holds tiles in place.
Then using your large knockdown knife pull and drag it across the ceiling in one direction.
Popcorn ceiling knockdown conversion our process.
First we start by covering the floors with a thicker grade plastic then the walls get taped up neatly and then they plastic the walls.
Spray the water onto the ceiling and let soak for a few minutes.
He just used a simple sprayer like what you d spray your yard for weeds.
Give the water about 15 minutes to soak in and soften the texture and then test a small.