Jeff you may have just created the best real time popcorn ceiling creation video on YT. This is not for this generation but hey, our grand grand kids may find popcorn ceiling cool. 😂
The biggest positive for my generation (Born in 98) is that popcorn ceilings dampen sound. So everyone is recording videos or just talking online. the popcorn ceiling will help dapen background noise like PC fan noise and other things. I think itll make a comeback in offices in homes.
Yes indeed. Popcorn got their bad name possibly due to low ceilings and asbestos back in the days. It also signals the building is quite old in US. Nowadays ceilings are higher so the popcorn is less obvious.
Wow. This video comes out at just the right time. I hate the popcorn and what's worse it's not just the ceiling but the walls as well in my home. I was forced to drywall my entryway ceiling after my son accidentally stepped thru while in the attic. I thought, perfect, now I can skim coat the walls and come back with any texture I want. I've done coat after coat and still not satisfied with my texturing. After watching this I'm pretty sure I'm going to revert back to the original look. And to think I wanted to remove the popcorn for my entire home! This video is instant stress relief and saves my bacon for sure! Many many thanks Jeff!
Hi, hey thanks for the videos :) . So question , I have an oldet 1946 house you see roof beams at least 1/4 " mayve 1/8th " drop . Do you think I can get it heavy enough to cover the crappy look ? thanks @@HomeRenoVisionDIY
So I should wait till your paint or remove popcorn ceiling video? I painted my accent wall with sample paint using no tape, but my ceiling needs to be addressed...
I like the look of a decorative stipple job with all the swirls and concentric circles... Right up until the time I have to do some kind of ceiling repair. The horrible result of me trying to match the existing pattern drove me to cover my ceiling in wood. I must say that the wood and tin ceilings really give me the fizz. In Wrangler Star speak
What about a California knockdown ceiling instead of popcorn ceiling? It's texture to hide bad drywall but less "ugly" and you can dust it and clean it
The amount you use depends on how heavy you want it. I've done lots of texture matches and if it was originally installed heavier, you can use quite a bit
Hey great vid! Dude get a hopper made by Walboard. It’s a red hopper. It only uses air when the trigger is applied. I got one to replace my old hopper and now my pancake compressor has no trouble keeping up. It’s a huge improvement I’m tellin ya.
Why is that? A pain to remove or didn’t turn out as good as you were expecting? Dying get rid of my popcorn ceiling but I am worried about what’s underneath
@@smiley0987 Not really difficult to remove if one properly uses a sprayer or spray bottle and you get the technique down. I was also happy with the results, but it takes a lot of prep time taping plastic and laying tarps and even with that, I still had a mess. Doing a large room, I need a big dose of patience and time. Neither which I have at the moment.
Popcorn ceiling was a dog fur magnet in my house, especially near the ceiling vents. Hideous!! I see a lot of the comments are about how to remove the popcorn, so I'll add my 2 cents: I lightly scraped off the popcorn with a stiff rubber squeegee, which left some texture but not the actual popcorn. Then I painted, and now there's no fur but I can't see imperfections and I really like it!
Okay I have a silly question to clarify & settle a bet: I thought popcorn ceilings were invented/used to helped reduce the amount of noise in a room or home. But you stated it’s due to drywall looking atrocious (lol). Are we both right or am I going to lose my bet & be out $20?
I recently moved to the USA and was in the market for a house. I had never heard of or seen popcorn ceiling. When I first saw it, I thought nothing of it. Then my realtor told me that it was very much out of fashion. I honestly dont get it. Looks okay to me.
I had to cut about 2' of the ceiling sheetrock back to repair termite damage on the load bearing walls and now trying to emulate the popcorn on the sheetrock I replaced with the rest of the ceiling. Using texture sand but can still see the transition. Have to do it before I move on as I have the carpet pulled back and won't later.
Idk, it really does help reduce room noise. When you walking into a modern minimalistic house, with painted walls ceilings and a hardwood floor, every sound you make is shrill. Its like living in a doctor's office. Carpets and popcorn ceiling really do help, as do drapes and fabric furniture.
I have removed the popcorn and sanded. I’m in the process of priming. I want to add a less aggressive texture back to the ceiling to hide the imperfections left behind from the removal. I’m in the middle of the project right now and now are strongly considering waiting for your videos to come out before I continue. 😂😂😂. The wife is going to kill me if I do. 😆😆😆😆😆😆😆
If possible, please do a demo on how to do knockdown on a ceiling. its hard to find a sub that knows how to do it right and I need a great source video! Cheers Jeff!
When we moved to Omaha every house we looked at, to buy, had popcorn ceilings. When we moved into to our house we discovered they even did the closet ceilings.
Textured closet ceilings are a thing of horror. I have an older house (1946) and the first thing I learned is to limit places for spiders and dust to congregate -- including niches in small, dark, out-of-the-way locations like closets.
Hi Jeff, I currently am in a situation where I've removed old florescent light fixture boxes and put a combination of pot lights and chandelier. Had to do some popcorn repair that didn't turn out as well as I hoped. I've painted over the repair as I thought it would hide it better but still not as good as I'd like. Would you recommend removing the patches and reattempt to apply or should I respray my ceiling? If I respray do I need to remove the old texture or could I texture over it? Thanks for all your videos, super knowledgeable and helpful.
I love my popcorn ceilings. I actually painted my existing popcorn ceiling and found out by accident that Dunn Edwards Ultra Grip primer mimics the original color of the ceiling so well, I didn't have to paint over the primer! I used a roller and brush. My GF had the popcorn ceilings removed to try and achieve the smooth flat ceiling. She has a very large house and it didn't come out very well. You could see all the imperfections so eventually had a small amount of texture sprayed on.
Really curious as to what the air pressure was during spraying. I know that the hopper has a cutoff valve on it. That does control some pressure as well as volume. But still wondering about compressor pressure.
Thanks for the video. I had a crack in my small popcorn textured wall due to house settling. I cut out the crack and put in a new piece of drywall so now I am tasked with trying to match the patch to the rest of the popcorn wall, uggh! Any pointers on how to do this?
i was always told popcorn ceiling existed just to hide the flaws in the taping and mudding of the ceiling. contrary to common belief, i dont think popcorn ceiling looks awful in every application. sure sometimes its in a gross house, but its just a flaw of any textured and uncleanable object in a house to eventually get dirty with dust, especially if people are gonna have ceiling leaks or cooking fumes and smoker stains and stuff on top of the basic dust
I've removed A LOT of popcorn ceilings in my line of work, and honestly the drywall underneath majority of the time ins't too bad, you will always have to fix it up, but its not to the point where it takes hundreds of hours to fix, its just time consuming because you have to come back to it, remove, sand (drywall sanders work great for this) patch, tape, let dry, come back sand, prime, patch imperfections, come back sand, prime patches, paint sand, paint done.
@@sociopathmercenary that coats a lot more. If you can afford it then it's the better option for sure, but it does cost a significantly higher amount than just removing the popcorn ceiling
Boight a house 3 yrs ago with this on the ceilings. Someone tried to fix a few lines that cracked(its obvious) when the house was moved. Now Im trying to decide if I can fix it or should just get a drop ceiling installed to hide it. Lol Im a 60 yr old woman on a fixed income. Idk.
Don't have the patience or skill to make your ceiling look nice? Hide your mistakes by making it worse! lol Jokes aside, popcorn ceiling is actually good for acoustics. I think that's the only situation I would be using it.
I live in Texas and every wall in my house has texture and every room has a different texture and all ceilings have popcorn except the kitchen. I removed the popcorn off the ceiling in the breakfast room area and smoothed out around the taped joints. It only took me about 4 hours to do everything and I painted the next day. I love that room now the ceiling looks two feet higher and it looks much cleaner, unfortunately the rest of the house except two bedrooms has vaulted ceilings that are 13 ft and I wouldn't attempt it.
@@Angela-yg3bc I used a small spray bottle that Walmart sells in cosmetics section filled with water, spray about 12" x 24" area till wet but not soaking, wait 1 minute or so and lightly scrape in a straight line on wet area (I used a large plastic scraper) and do not gouge into the ceiling. Be careful when going over the taped joints not to get your scrapper underneath the tape, also you just want to remove surface popcorn so go gently. You will want to put plastic sheeting on the floor, this stuff makes a mess. After your done removing the popcorn just go over any areas where you see the joint tape with joint compound and smooth it out to blend with ceiling and wait 24 hrs to paint. Make sure the popcorn on your ceiling has not been painted because this won't work with painted popcorn. Check out Paul Peck Drywall YT channel he has tons of video on doing ceilings.
@@eonreco1472 I got one of those chemical sprayers you see in the lawn care aisle. The one with the pump so I could control the pressure. I wet a section and with a plastic putty knife scraped all three ceilings. Once I got all of the popcorn off, I got a drywall sander and smoothed it out. Then filed any imperfections with spakle.
@@whiteserpent6753 Any suggestion for variable heights? Does scaffolding still work? I have a vaulted sloped ceiling which is ~17 feet at highest and ~8 at lowest. Really hesitating now if to get a contractor to do this
Knife it in random directions before it fully dries, aka knockdown takes an extra 5 minutes. Looks a million times better. If spray on ceiling is solely for some kind of sound echo reduction or hiding flaws may as well save the mess and just roll the mud on, even that looks a million times better. Spray texturing a ceiling really doesn't hide flaws other than pits and bubbles. It will not hide large concaved or convexed areas due to poor finishing.
There is popcorn ceiling in our laundry closet and I want to keep it to dampen the sound of the machines. Does anyone here think it would be a good idea to just put beadboard, or fake shiplap, or something like that to cover it?
Having removed popcorn from every room in my house during our reno (including two rooms with painted popcorn and two others with 12 ft ceilings) this gave me PTSD.... haha!
Two things I see people doing that are inexperienced (or lazy) with applying popcorn and/or knockdown texture: I see it all the time. People clearly slapped drywall up, taped and mudded, and *immediately* sprayed popcorn all over it. No sanding, no priming, nothing. This is fine, I guess... if you're never planning on the ceiling being scraped, and you don't care about the longevity of the texture hold. If someone ever goes to scrape it in the future, the popcorn texture will have fused with the wet tape lines, and the mud on every nail or screw hole as well, and it will be like trying to scrape limestone build-up off a brick wall. Good luck. The other, also very common annoyance I deal with, is when someone uses *WAYYYY* too much mud for knockdown texturing. So much, that when they knock it down, it all smears together all over the ceiling, creating big blobs that resemble continents on an embossed map of the Earth. It should be a light application, honestly. It does the job, and looks far more professional that applying it in excess.
“That’s a hack job, read your manual” right after filling drywall holes with caulk, b/c “says something semi-justifiable” As a professional painter, this type of thing makes me suspicious of other things that I may actually need to learn but don’t know how much I should trust your words
My house was built in the 80s and every room has popcorn ceilings except the kitchen and bathrooms. While it was a 'thing' back then, the filth that accumulates in them is disgusting. I can't imagine what they would be like in a house with smokers. Plaster ceilings with classic designs have their place, but popcorn ceilings should be banned.
It amazes me how many people get triggered by watching an informational video on something they don't like and then have to post about their overreaction and their intent to unsubscribe. It's like they zero'd in on one aspect of the information and didn't exactly get the entire message. Had they listened, they would have realized that you're posting this video today, to eventually teach them how to paint it and then remove it because there are many viewers out there who need that information more than the people who actually want a popcorn ceiling. I'm in the camp that doesn't have popcorn ceilings, nor do I like them, so this video adds nothing for me other than information I can store in my mental toolbelt. Yet somehow, I don't get offended by seeing this type of content. It's almost like there are some viewers out there who feel the world has to revolve around their personal situation and if they see something that doesn't meet their own criteria, it becomes highly offensive to them. I don't know, I just don't get it. If you don't like the content of the video, don't watch and move along with your life and you'll have a much better day. Cheers Jeff.
Let me share my experience removing popcorn ceiling. First of all make sure you get it tested for asbestos before you attempt to remove it. So... Me and my friends removed the popcorn ceiling throughout my entire apartment and we found out that the ceiling was a concrete slab which at first seems like it would be easy enough to paint over and call it a day. Turns out the concrete had a bunch of pin-sized air bubbles all throughout which made painting it not possible. We then had to skim coat the entire ceiling with plaster which is not easy. We ended up getting air bubbles that resulted in holes larger than the holes we initially tried to cover. After finally finishing we didn't do that great of a job. We had to clean the spackle off the walls and carpet. And we had to sand the entire ceiling to get out all the imperfections which in reality just ended up exposing more of the air bubbles that were not visible in the beginning. Next we had to prime the ceiling and paint a coat over it with ceiling paint. We ended up missing some spots because the primer in the paint looked similar. It wasn't until the next day that we noticed we missed a bunch of spots and we had to paint again. Let me tell you. Skim coating a perfectly flat ceiling as a beginner is not something that you should expect to be easy. Still glad we got rid of the popcorn ceiling though lol
@@juncaarle Stick around before hiring a pro. Sounds like Jeff is preparing a series on how to remove popcorn ceilings and it might be worth your while to wait for that one. My guess is he's going to use the technique of installing new drywall to cover the popcorn'd drywall since he's talked about that so much in the past. Way less hassle and less messy. If there is asbestos in the popcorn then there's no concern since you're just covering it up. And if you still want to hire a pro, hang the drywall yourself and just hire the pro to mud, tape and smooth it for you.
I have already removed all the popcorn from my ceilings. Almost all of them just scraped off easily. However one bedroom had paint over the popcorn. The other rooms took a couple hours going slow. That one took three days!!!
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Eagerly awaiting your "How to remove popcorn ceiling" video.
Use a paint scraper
RHETORICAL.
Facts
I hate popcorn! Lol
Spray with water from a chemical sprayer, use a 10" floor scraper after the water soaks in for about 5-10 minutes. It works amazingly.
Popcorn ceilings and fluorescent lights! Right on!!!
Love them both 👍
Jeff you may have just created the best real time popcorn ceiling creation video on YT. This is not for this generation but hey, our grand grand kids may find popcorn ceiling cool. 😂
The biggest positive for my generation (Born in 98) is that popcorn ceilings dampen sound. So everyone is recording videos or just talking online. the popcorn ceiling will help dapen background noise like PC fan noise and other things. I think itll make a comeback in offices in homes.
Yes indeed. Popcorn got their bad name possibly due to low ceilings and asbestos back in the days. It also signals the building is quite old in US. Nowadays ceilings are higher so the popcorn is less obvious.
I pray to God that our grand kids never find popcorn ceiling cool. There's nothing cool about this stupid looking texture.
Wow. This video comes out at just the right time. I hate the popcorn and what's worse it's not just the ceiling but the walls as well in my home. I was forced to drywall my entryway ceiling after my son accidentally stepped thru while in the attic. I thought, perfect, now I can skim coat the walls and come back with any texture I want. I've done coat after coat and still not satisfied with my texturing. After watching this I'm pretty sure I'm going to revert back to the original look. And to think I wanted to remove the popcorn for my entire home! This video is instant stress relief and saves my bacon for sure! Many many thanks Jeff!
Cheers!
I still love popcorn ceilings & you did a great job teaching how to achieve it! A great big "thank you"! 👍
Thanks so much! 😊
Hi, hey thanks for the videos :) . So question , I have an oldet 1946 house you see roof beams at least 1/4 " mayve 1/8th " drop . Do you think I can get it heavy enough to cover the crappy look ? thanks @@HomeRenoVisionDIY
Popcorn ceilings with a bit of glitter work wonderfully in an entertaining den . Have it in my house. Looks rad
Glitter popcorn is the coolest ceiling treatment.
Recently picked up the 3M M3000 Hand Masker. $50 but it's a game changer with masking. Paid for itself in one use. Great info as always! Cheers!
nice buy!
So I should wait till your paint or remove popcorn ceiling video? I painted my accent wall with sample paint using no tape, but my ceiling needs to be addressed...
I like the look of a decorative stipple job with all the swirls and concentric circles... Right up until the time I have to do some kind of ceiling repair.
The horrible result of me trying to match the existing pattern drove me to cover my ceiling in wood. I must say that the wood and tin ceilings really give me the fizz. In Wrangler Star speak
What about a California knockdown ceiling instead of popcorn ceiling? It's texture to hide bad drywall but less "ugly" and you can dust it and clean it
The amount you use depends on how heavy you want it. I've done lots of texture matches and if it was originally installed heavier, you can use quite a bit
Hey great vid! Dude get a hopper made by Walboard. It’s a red hopper. It only uses air when the trigger is applied. I got one to replace my old hopper and now my pancake compressor has no trouble keeping up. It’s a huge improvement I’m tellin ya.
I finally decided to love my popcorn ceilings in the rest of my house after removing it from two bathrooms.
Why is that? A pain to remove or didn’t turn out as good as you were expecting? Dying get rid of my popcorn ceiling but I am worried about what’s underneath
@@smiley0987 Not really difficult to remove if one properly uses a sprayer or spray bottle and you get the technique down. I was also happy with the results, but it takes a lot of prep time taping plastic and laying tarps and even with that, I still had a mess. Doing a large room, I need a big dose of patience and time. Neither which I have at the moment.
James Philip i see, sounds like mine will never get done🤣 I noticed my entrance closet has it too, may practice on that just to see!
Popcorn ceiling was a dog fur magnet in my house, especially near the ceiling vents. Hideous!!
I see a lot of the comments are about how to remove the popcorn, so I'll add my 2 cents: I lightly scraped off the popcorn with a stiff rubber squeegee, which left some texture but not the actual popcorn. Then I painted, and now there's no fur but I can't see imperfections and I really like it!
fun quick ED vids
I was considering removing the popcorn from my ceilings but will wait for your video on that.
Okay I have a silly question to clarify & settle a bet: I thought popcorn ceilings were invented/used to helped reduce the amount of noise in a room or home. But you stated it’s due to drywall looking atrocious (lol). Are we both right or am I going to lose my bet & be out $20?
I see you coming - 10 years from now you're going to make a bunch of "how to remove popcorn ceiling" videos - catch 'em coming and going, very smart
I recently moved to the USA and was in the market for a house. I had never heard of or seen popcorn ceiling. When I first saw it, I thought nothing of it. Then my realtor told me that it was very much out of fashion. I honestly dont get it. Looks okay to me.
Popcorn ceiling with glitter !
Looks like fun
I had to cut about 2' of the ceiling sheetrock back to repair termite damage on the load bearing walls and now trying to emulate the popcorn on the sheetrock I replaced with the rest of the ceiling. Using texture sand but can still see the transition. Have to do it before I move on as I have the carpet pulled back and won't later.
How well does it really decrease the acoustic noise echo in a woodshop?
It would be nice to help dampen the noise of all the tools and saws, etc.
Can you share any advice for how to repair a large area of a previously popcorned cement ceiling?
あんな吹付けの機械があるんですね。😀
勉強になりました。👍
I just love how the popcorn ceiling was branded as "acoustic" as if that was the main purpose, and not just "cheap drywall work cover up"
Idk, it really does help reduce room noise. When you walking into a modern minimalistic house, with painted walls ceilings and a hardwood floor, every sound you make is shrill. Its like living in a doctor's office. Carpets and popcorn ceiling really do help, as do drapes and fabric furniture.
I enjoyed your video on popcorn ceiling but qould likt to know how to put the shinny stuff in it or maybe its glitter dont know . woule like to know
I have removed the popcorn and sanded. I’m in the process of priming. I want to add a less aggressive texture back to the ceiling to hide the imperfections left behind from the removal. I’m in the middle of the project right now and now are strongly considering waiting for your videos to come out before I continue. 😂😂😂. The wife is going to kill me if I do. 😆😆😆😆😆😆😆
Maybe you could do an orange peel or knockdown texture? Maybe match what's on the walls?
@@SuperJezzara Yeah that’s exactly what I was thinking. Thanks!
If possible, please do a demo on how to do knockdown on a ceiling. its hard to find a sub that knows how to do it right and I need a great source video! Cheers Jeff!
I enjoy your videos. How do you safely drill through stucco?
Use a rotary hammer
I’d rather have not so flat but smooth surface than ugly popcorn ceiling. I can’t believe people still go for this look. Crazy!!!
I know, I can’t stand mine. Makes the house look so old fashioned IMO. Hoping to remove it one day!
When we moved to Omaha every house we looked at, to buy, had popcorn ceilings. When we moved into to our house we discovered they even did the closet ceilings.
Textured closet ceilings are a thing of horror. I have an older house (1946) and the first thing I learned is to limit places for spiders and dust to congregate -- including niches in small, dark, out-of-the-way locations like closets.
Not Omaha, but I *am* in Nebraska. Just checked my bedroom closet, and lo and behold, it indeed does have a popcorn ceiling
Hi Jeff, I currently am in a situation where I've removed old florescent light fixture boxes and put a combination of pot lights and chandelier. Had to do some popcorn repair that didn't turn out as well as I hoped. I've painted over the repair as I thought it would hide it better but still not as good as I'd like. Would you recommend removing the patches and reattempt to apply or should I respray my ceiling? If I respray do I need to remove the old texture or could I texture over it? Thanks for all your videos, super knowledgeable and helpful.
Thanks for just now starting this series the day i got done skim coating my ceilings 😡😂
I love my popcorn ceilings. I actually painted my existing popcorn ceiling and found out by accident that Dunn Edwards Ultra Grip primer mimics the original color of the ceiling so well, I didn't have to paint over the primer! I used a roller and brush.
My GF had the popcorn ceilings removed to try and achieve the smooth flat ceiling. She has a very large house and it didn't come out very well. You could see all the imperfections so eventually had a small amount of texture sprayed on.
How to fix dark strips on a new pop corn ceiling ? Thanks !
Really curious as to what the air pressure was during spraying. I know that the hopper has a cutoff valve on it. That does control some pressure as well as volume. But still wondering about compressor pressure.
Popcorn ceilings with glitter!
Thanks for the video. I had a crack in my small popcorn textured wall due to house settling. I cut out the crack and put in a new piece of drywall so now I am tasked with trying to match the patch to the rest of the popcorn wall, uggh! Any pointers on how to do this?
I don't have any reason to know about popcorn vs. flat ceilings. But this is interesting.
The house I bought has it and it’s not that bad after it was repainted it looks good
i was always told popcorn ceiling existed just to hide the flaws in the taping and mudding of the ceiling. contrary to common belief, i dont think popcorn ceiling looks awful in every application. sure sometimes its in a gross house, but its just a flaw of any textured and uncleanable object in a house to eventually get dirty with dust, especially if people are gonna have ceiling leaks or cooking fumes and smoker stains and stuff on top of the basic dust
I've removed A LOT of popcorn ceilings in my line of work, and honestly the drywall underneath majority of the time ins't too bad, you will always have to fix it up, but its not to the point where it takes hundreds of hours to fix, its just time consuming because you have to come back to it, remove, sand (drywall sanders work great for this) patch, tape, let dry, come back sand, prime, patch imperfections, come back sand, prime patches, paint sand, paint done.
That is pretty much 100 hours at a minimum to do all that.
@@Faruk651 depends. For 1 room no. For a whole house yeah, 100 hours really depends on how big the job is.
With the price of labor, I think you're going to come out ahead with just replacing all the drywall ceiling
@@sociopathmercenary that coats a lot more. If you can afford it then it's the better option for sure, but it does cost a significantly higher amount than just removing the popcorn ceiling
Keeping it real
Now I know. Thanks
Boight a house 3 yrs ago with this on the ceilings. Someone tried to fix a few lines that cracked(its obvious) when the house was moved. Now Im trying to decide if I can fix it or should just get a drop ceiling installed to hide it. Lol Im a 60 yr old woman on a fixed income. Idk.
What about ceiling tiles?
Do electric texture guns work for popcorn ceilings?
Love the video but why didn’t you show the ceiling after completion? Great vid tho
Don't have the patience or skill to make your ceiling look nice? Hide your mistakes by making it worse! lol
Jokes aside, popcorn ceiling is actually good for acoustics. I think that's the only situation I would be using it.
I love my popcorn ceilings.
What texture gun hopper is best for knock down for the diy'er?
How about knock down textured walls and ceilings?
I live in Texas and every wall in my house has texture and every room has a different texture and all ceilings have popcorn except the kitchen. I removed the popcorn off the ceiling in the breakfast room area and smoothed out around the taped joints. It only took me about 4 hours to do everything and I painted the next day. I love that room now the ceiling looks two feet higher and it looks much cleaner, unfortunately the rest of the house except two bedrooms has vaulted ceilings that are 13 ft and I wouldn't attempt it.
How did you remove it? I hate the stuff!
Ditto Angela's question. How did you remove it?
@@Angela-yg3bc I used a small spray bottle that Walmart sells in cosmetics section filled with water, spray about 12" x 24" area till wet but not soaking, wait 1 minute or so and lightly scrape in a straight line on wet area (I used a large plastic scraper) and do not gouge into the ceiling. Be careful when going over the taped joints not to get your scrapper underneath the tape, also you just want to remove surface popcorn so go gently. You will want to put plastic sheeting on the floor, this stuff makes a mess. After your done removing the popcorn just go over any areas where you see the joint tape with joint compound and smooth it out to blend with ceiling and wait 24 hrs to paint. Make sure the popcorn on your ceiling has not been painted because this won't work with painted popcorn. Check out Paul Peck Drywall YT channel he has tons of video on doing ceilings.
@@eonreco1472 I got one of those chemical sprayers you see in the lawn care aisle. The one with the pump so I could control the pressure. I wet a section and with a plastic putty knife scraped all three ceilings. Once I got all of the popcorn off, I got a drywall sander and smoothed it out. Then filed any imperfections with spakle.
@@whiteserpent6753 Any suggestion for variable heights? Does scaffolding still work? I have a vaulted sloped ceiling which is ~17 feet at highest and ~8 at lowest. Really hesitating now if to get a contractor to do this
Do you make it heavy popcorn
Bro definitely got popcorn lungs
I feel personally attacked after listening to your introduction
Jeff, what is the name/type of the drill tool you are using to do your drywall mixing again? Can you drop an Amazon link?
It's usually called a drill/mixer at Home Depot
Huge baby boomer move to add popcorn ceilings to a new house
Here because...."wished I never touched my ceilings..." HAHAHAHA
Knife it in random directions before it fully dries, aka knockdown takes an extra 5 minutes. Looks a million times better. If spray on ceiling is solely for some kind of sound echo reduction or hiding flaws may as well save the mess and just roll the mud on, even that looks a million times better. Spray texturing a ceiling really doesn't hide flaws other than pits and bubbles. It will not hide large concaved or convexed areas due to poor finishing.
less than 1 min in and a like
To quote Bart Simpson on the use of popcorn ceilings, "I didn't think it was possible but this (they) sucks and blows"
I was expecting more details on the applying techniques . But overall good video.
I know the pros of popcorn ceiling, it's just not my cup of tea...I flew through this video quickly.
teaching people how to do this is a disservice to all the generations present and future.
There is popcorn ceiling in our laundry closet and I want to keep it to dampen the sound of the machines. Does anyone here think it would be a good idea to just put beadboard, or fake shiplap, or something like that to cover it?
That's a good idea actually imo, could even shove more sound dampening material in between
Having removed popcorn from every room in my house during our reno (including two rooms with painted popcorn and two others with 12 ft ceilings) this gave me PTSD.... haha!
popcorn ceiling? don't you watch HGTV or diy? apparently I'm the only person in the world that likes stippled ceilings. lol.
Make sure when doing a pop corn ceiling job that the ceiling isn't a painted wall paper. The whole ceiling job will fall to the floor. Been there. Lol
Ugh. Painting popcorn ceilings is one of my least favorite things in the world. I hope you have tips I don't already know.
use a split foam roller. Cheers!
Two things I see people doing that are inexperienced (or lazy) with applying popcorn and/or knockdown texture:
I see it all the time. People clearly slapped drywall up, taped and mudded, and *immediately* sprayed popcorn all over it. No sanding, no priming, nothing. This is fine, I guess... if you're never planning on the ceiling being scraped, and you don't care about the longevity of the texture hold. If someone ever goes to scrape it in the future, the popcorn texture will have fused with the wet tape lines, and the mud on every nail or screw hole as well, and it will be like trying to scrape limestone build-up off a brick wall. Good luck.
The other, also very common annoyance I deal with, is when someone uses *WAYYYY* too much mud for knockdown texturing. So much, that when they knock it down, it all smears together all over the ceiling, creating big blobs that resemble continents on an embossed map of the Earth. It should be a light application, honestly. It does the job, and looks far more professional that applying it in excess.
LMAO @ if that's your thing
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Never heard or seen this sort of ceiling. I guess it's not really used in the EU
“That’s a hack job, read your manual” right after filling drywall holes with caulk, b/c “says something semi-justifiable”
As a professional painter, this type of thing makes me suspicious of other things that I may actually need to learn but don’t know how much I should trust your words
step 1 : install pop-corn ceiling
step 2 : regret your decision
I like my popcorn ceiling.
Mine looks like someone sat in the middle of my floor and threw handfuls above their head!
Popcorn ceiling = homes for spiders...
I need the exact opposite "how to.." Remove popcorn ceiling.
He said in the video that this video is going to be a part of a series and one of the videos in the series will be how to remove it.
using textures to cover your sins? what an adam savage-ism
My house was built in the 80s and every room has popcorn ceilings except the kitchen and bathrooms. While it was a 'thing' back then, the filth that accumulates in them is disgusting. I can't imagine what they would be like in a house with smokers. Plaster ceilings with classic designs have their place, but popcorn ceilings should be banned.
Why don't you use stilts?
Probably because this is a DIY learning channel and teaching amateur homeowners how to use stilts is just a bad idea.
Nothing worse than that kind of textured ceiling. Hard to clean the nooks and crannies, too.
Booya..
Nooooooo…. don’t do it!!! Dust & dirt magnet! I’m good enough!
Wear a mask !
texture looks cheap.
skim coat, and get yourself a big 9x9" circular pole sander to get a smoother more level finish.
This video should be made illegal 😂
Why would you ever install popcorn in 2022? 👎👎👎🔥🤢🤮
It's videos like this that make me miss the counter on the dislike button. I'm also curious how many viewers he lost lol.
Why? I don’t like popcorn ceilings, but it’s still a well made video with good information.
Nobody is putting up popcorn ceilings. It cheapens the interior.
Tell us how to remove it instead! It’s horrible! 😂
popcorn ceilings should be outlawed under penalty of death.
It amazes me how many people get triggered by watching an informational video on something they don't like and then have to post about their overreaction and their intent to unsubscribe. It's like they zero'd in on one aspect of the information and didn't exactly get the entire message. Had they listened, they would have realized that you're posting this video today, to eventually teach them how to paint it and then remove it because there are many viewers out there who need that information more than the people who actually want a popcorn ceiling.
I'm in the camp that doesn't have popcorn ceilings, nor do I like them, so this video adds nothing for me other than information I can store in my mental toolbelt. Yet somehow, I don't get offended by seeing this type of content. It's almost like there are some viewers out there who feel the world has to revolve around their personal situation and if they see something that doesn't meet their own criteria, it becomes highly offensive to them. I don't know, I just don't get it. If you don't like the content of the video, don't watch and move along with your life and you'll have a much better day.
Cheers Jeff.
I am sure that anyone who was bothered will get over it soon enough. Cheers!
I enjoyed the video I also still love popcorn ceilings. Your knowledge is very informative. Love it.😎😎
I want to remove my popcorn... But now that you say it's there to cover imperfections, how do I know if removing it is the right move?
Let me share my experience removing popcorn ceiling. First of all make sure you get it tested for asbestos before you attempt to remove it. So... Me and my friends removed the popcorn ceiling throughout my entire apartment and we found out that the ceiling was a concrete slab which at first seems like it would be easy enough to paint over and call it a day. Turns out the concrete had a bunch of pin-sized air bubbles all throughout which made painting it not possible. We then had to skim coat the entire ceiling with plaster which is not easy. We ended up getting air bubbles that resulted in holes larger than the holes we initially tried to cover. After finally finishing we didn't do that great of a job. We had to clean the spackle off the walls and carpet. And we had to sand the entire ceiling to get out all the imperfections which in reality just ended up exposing more of the air bubbles that were not visible in the beginning. Next we had to prime the ceiling and paint a coat over it with ceiling paint. We ended up missing some spots because the primer in the paint looked similar. It wasn't until the next day that we noticed we missed a bunch of spots and we had to paint again. Let me tell you. Skim coating a perfectly flat ceiling as a beginner is not something that you should expect to be easy. Still glad we got rid of the popcorn ceiling though lol
@@AustinMovies I think I'll get a pro!... Though I know it ain't a concrete slab. Thanks for the info!
@@juncaarle Stick around before hiring a pro. Sounds like Jeff is preparing a series on how to remove popcorn ceilings and it might be worth your while to wait for that one. My guess is he's going to use the technique of installing new drywall to cover the popcorn'd drywall since he's talked about that so much in the past. Way less hassle and less messy. If there is asbestos in the popcorn then there's no concern since you're just covering it up. And if you still want to hire a pro, hang the drywall yourself and just hire the pro to mud, tape and smooth it for you.
@@whiteserpent6753 it's always a surprise but you'll find underneath popcorn ceiling!
You could always just cover over it with new drywall instead
I have already removed all the popcorn from my ceilings. Almost all of them just scraped off easily. However one bedroom had paint over the popcorn. The other rooms took a couple hours going slow. That one took three days!!!