Power Sanding Popcorn Ceiling

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.

Power sanding popcorn ceiling.

Only give it a light misting too much water could damage the drywall or loosen the joint tape. Dust free power sanding is by far the cleanest quickest and most professional way to tackle the job. The popcorn will be sheared off by sanders that deal with the level as they were engineered to do. 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. It won t work about 80 of th. And i ve seen it do. Just wet and scape.

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. A sander is a planer tool and popcorn ceiling is three dimensional. 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.

Do not saturate the ceiling but wet it thoroughly. When scraping a popcorn ceiling there is a very common belief that you can just scrape it and paint it. However the thought of manually sanding it off sounds so much worse than actually having to look at the ceiling itself. You can t always sand off popcorn texture.

At mississauga handyman we use a festool planex dust extracting power sander to both remove popcorn and sand out freshly skim coated ceilings and walls. Don t fret if your ceiling is now clear but not. If you want to know if you can sand off your popcorn ceiling texture i ll show you. 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.