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blue65coupe

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If your house contains ceilings with the popcorn coating and you decide to remove said coating in order to paint the ceiling.........don't do it. If you have an area around an exhaust fan (fart catcher) that has peeled due to moisture from the shower (or farts), patch it. Don't worry about the patch job not matching the rest of the ceiling perfectly. Just remember that you do NOT want to remove the existing :rant in order to paint a flat surface. The wife has informed me she'd like this done throughout the whole house. I informed her a divorce would come before I did this again.
 
That's why you pay someone to come in and do it for you. My brother just did it to his house and it wasn't expensive. It was very messy and glad he paid someone to do it. They were in and out in 2 days. Oh yeah they painted the ceilings for him.

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"David67" said:
That's why you pay someone to come in and do it for you. My brother just did it to his house and it wasn't expensive. It was very messy and glad he paid someone to do it. They were in and out in 2 days. Oh yeah they painted the ceilings for him.

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I can't imagine this being done without covering every inch of your house in plastic or moving everything out. 2 days???? It's not hard, just time consuming and VERY messy.


"70 StangMan" said:
Well..............where's the photo with your new popcorn hair-doo ????
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I actually vacuumed my hair out last night before I took a shower.
 
We did it to the living room. Removed every piece of furniture out, super fans put in place everywhere, sprayed the popcorn stuff down with water to get it soft and started scrapping.

Wasn't too bad. Good luck.
 
I thought about doing that in my place, but the house has a vaulted ceiling that runs the entire length of the house. The bedrooms and bathrooms wouldn't be a problem, but the rest of the house would be a PITA. Plus I'm lazy and don't feel like doing it now.
 
"blue65coupe" said:
I actually vacuumed my hair out last night before I took a shower.
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Shoulda used a flow-bee and you coulda killed 2 birdies with one swoop.
 
Also, if your house was built before 1977 and after about 1950, the popcorn ceilings probably contained asbestos. It is probably safe in place, but removing it by sanding or scraping could be trouble over time if you breathe the dust.
 
:stu

I just finished a project to remove the asbestos, including popcorn ceiling texture from some houses we bought near a plant. Cost more to get rid of the asbestos than it did to tear them down.
 
We just moved the furniture to middle. The came with a ton of plastic and had the whole house covered in a couple of hours. Took all the popcorn off and came back the next day after it dried. After that they just painted the ceilings and removed the plastic. We had to go through and clean the house really good. The best part these people took all the trash they made with them.

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I've never tried to remove the popcorn stuff.

However, I did get the bright idea in the old house that the half bath and master bath would look better painted and without wall paper. Getting rid of a couple of layers of wall paper that had been there for who knows how long....that sucked. If I had it to do over again I am pretty sure I would have taken a hammer to it and just redone the drywall....floating and taping would have been less of a pita for certain in the half bath and probably in both of them.
 
"RustyRed" said:
I've never tried to remove the popcorn stuff.

However, I did get the bright idea in the old house that the half bath and master bath would look better painted and without wall paper. Getting rid of a couple of layers of wall paper that had been there for who knows how long....that sucked. If I had it to do over again I am pretty sure I would have taken a hammer to it and just redone the drywall....floating and taping would have been less of a pita for certain in the half bath and probably in both of them.
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We did that to ALL of the wallpaper in the house. Used one of those scoring things and some stuff call Krud Kutter. Scored and sprayed it down, and in 20 mins, the wallpaper was literally falling off the wall. As long as it stayed damp, you could pull the paper off with ease.
 
"Gigantopithecus" said:
We did that to ALL of the wallpaper in the house. Used one of those scoring things and some stuff call Krud Kutter. Scored and sprayed it down, and in 20 mins, the wallpaper was literally falling off the wall. As long as it stayed damp, you could pull the paper off with ease.
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That is because the person who hung that paper "sized" the walls first. This practice makes future removal possible. If you ever encounter a wall that was not properly prepared it is a whole 'nother experience!
 
We got lucky on this house. I've helped take down that crap at a friend's place and it just about took a jack hammer and c4 to get it off the walls. My parent's house was the same way, just like chipping away at granite.
 
This is the last room in the house with wallpaper and it came off fairly easy. The rest of the walls were done when we moved in and it took a while. Some easy, some as you described Jamie. Big PIA. Basically the ceiling deal was a "remove loose stuff and patch" until more came loose than expected. "Hey, why not? Most of it is coming off in chunks anyway." WRONG!!! Spray bottle, scraper, no plastic and didn't move anything until the mess had already started. Not to mention I am not removing the crown moulding...which was put up after the popcorn...and caulked. When we removed the wallpaper from the rest of the house I re-papered (supposed to provide "new surface") about 4 rooms I think. Looked good, felt smooth, appeared wonderful....until a satin finish paint was applied. It made some picture location decisions pretty easy.
 
"Horseplay" said:
That is because the person who hung that paper "sized" the walls first. This practice makes future removal possible. If you ever encounter a wall that was not properly prepared it is a whole 'nother experience!
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Been there, done that. :rant
 
"blue65coupe" said:
This is the last room in the house with wallpaper and it came off fairly easy. The rest of the walls were done when we moved in and it took a while. Some easy, some as you described Jamie. Big PIA. Basically the ceiling deal was a "remove loose stuff and patch" until more came loose than expected. "Hey, why not? Most of it is coming off in chunks anyway." WRONG!!! Spray bottle, scraper, no plastic and didn't move anything until the mess had already started. Not to mention I am not removing the crown moulding...which was put up after the popcorn...and caulked. When we removed the wallpaper from the rest of the house I re-papered (supposed to provide "new surface") about 4 rooms I think. Looked good, felt smooth, appeared wonderful....until a satin finish paint was applied. It made some picture location decisions pretty easy.
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It was you that inspired Tim Allen to come up with the Toolman character, wasn't it?

LMAO
 
"blue65coupe" said:
You have no idea.
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No, but my mind can see the vision and let me tell you...it's funnier than a porcupine at a balloon festival!
 
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