Sanding Down Popcorn Ceilings

If you are sanding a stipple ceiling use an electric sander with dust bag.

Sanding down popcorn ceilings.

Be sure to sand evenly starting in one corner and moving across the wall. Use a coarse grit pole sander across the whole surface. This will knock down the stipple. The popcorn finish should loosen and fall off easily.

If you are looking for a miracle festool sander to deal with popcorn ceilings they don t exist. 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. Further down below is a video i wanted to share of someone who has removed 500 popcorn ceilings telling you why sanding is not the best way to go. If you do not want to scrape the ceiling or wall you can try sanding.

Use a long pole with a sanding pad to sand the ceiling once the popcorn has been scraped off. Sanding is probably a bad idea. The popcorn will be sheared off by sanders that deal with the level as they were engineered to do. Follow up with a sander that can handle the dust.

However the thought of manually sanding it off sounds so much worse than actually having to look at the ceiling itself. The main reason popcorn ceiling texture was used in the first place was to camouflage the flaws in the sheetrock or taping job. However a knockdown finish will accomplish the same camouflage feature but be much more subtle in texture and effect. The general process is to get a pump up garden spra.

Just wet and scape. I mentioned that sanding down popcorn ceilings is not the best removal method. June 12 2018 at 2 10 pm. A sander is a planer tool and popcorn ceiling is three dimensional.

Popcorn ceilings can be seen as such an eyesore on an otherwise beautiful home. With his help we break down the three methods to redoing popcorn ceilings below. How to scrape a popcorn ceiling. There are tons of videos on youtube about this.

The way that popcorn ceilings are normally handled and the way that i have removed mine is by scraping them down. I want to knock down our popcorn but i m nervous.