Popcorn, popcorn, popcorn ceilings. ugh!?
Question:Don't want to be deceiving anyone that buys my house when I sell it one day. I want to just make the ceilings pretty for us while we are living here. We have been talking A LOT about just hanging more drywall over it (would that be too heavy), thought about trying to scrape it and mud it (even with a bad arm) or just simply painting it. I am certainly not going to hang a sign up for the next buyers of this house "Hey, I got popcorn"!! They will see what I saw. A house that might need this and that. We have added one room on to the house and it is a wooden sunroom so we thought even a little tan paint with wood trim of some sort to blend in. See...not trying to cheat or hurt anyone. I just want something nice while I am here for however long that might be. This popcorn has been our only real delima of fixing this fixer upper we bought. I love all the answer but I am not trying to cheat my next buyer. Wow, some of the responses I got!! Any more nice answers?
Answers:
You can try spraying it with a little water, like a windex spray, and then use steam behind that to soften whatever is holding it, followed by a wide scraper.
If you don't want to go to the work offer a $500 allowance for the popcorn.
drop celling or tiles that are stapled to thin wood strips
Drench it down with a garden sprayer filled with water let it sit for 5 mins and itl scrape right off.
I don't know what your problem with the ceiling is, because I didn't see your other questions.
But popcorn ceilings are just glops of gyproc mud spray onto the ceiling and let to dry, there is a small bit of latex paint mixed in.
If you haven't tried to remove it, Paint it gently With OIL BASED, "flat" PAINT, with a 15 MM fuzzy roller on an extension pole, or mop handle with mop off, (end S/b threaded, Roller handle is threaded, twist together) This will paint the ceiling, and seal it so it can be painted with latex in the future. Painting with latex the first time will dissolve the popcorn (not Good)
If you have tried to eliminate the pop corn, only you can judge if you should leave well enough alone and leave for next owner, or try to re-do it, which won't look good without a LOT of work.
Certainly deceit shouldn't be part of a sales transaction, and PopCorn was a bad idea then and still is.
I'm confused however in that you seem confused about how long you'll stay while saying you don't want to cheat your next buyer? I used to buy fixers, do the work then rent them until I found buyers. I grew weary of being a landlord.
Do you buy fixers and flip them?
For the money I never do textures anymore, but certainly they can hide sins. Have to priced "Knock Down"?
The idea of dropped ceiling is certainly valid too, but not knowing the current height of your ceilings a drop might be a bad idea.
I just recently saw an interior with "beadboard" on one major ceiling. It was painted white, not left natural, but looked great. In 4 x 8 sheets it weighs less than drywall and is easier to install.
In your place I suppose I'd go with knock down.
Steven Wolf
scraping is the only way to get rid of it. Putting drywall on top. Heavy work. Scraping is long, the labor is light and you can do it in parts(room by room)Me, I got pop, I just paint it.
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