Mudding Over Popcorn Ceiling

On this painted popcorn ceiling project i ll be skim coating over it using a 14 inch drywall taping knife 16 inch stainless steel mud pan and an all purpose joint compound made by usg.

Mudding over popcorn ceiling.

For a total style upgrade cover the ceiling with wood paneling or wood planks. And i ve seen it do. You ll need to securely screw it into the framing and be proficient at mudding and taping for a seamless job. When scraping a popcorn ceiling there is a very common belief that you can just scrape it and paint it.

Just skim coating projects popcorn ceiling is also an older ceiling pre 1978 which could have as asbestos or lead paint. Covering a popcorn ceiling with drywall. In today s skim coating tips video i ll show you how to apply skim coat over a painted popcorn ceiling the skim coating tools i use and why you should skim. Popcorn ceiling if you have a heavily textured ceiling and just don t like the look you have a few options.

Ceiling tiles drop ceilings and new drywall will also hide existing popcorn texture. I did the first skim coat o. It s round two of skim coating over a textured ceiling series. Adding a new drywall layer also gives you the option of insulating directly over the old ceiling before adding the new.

With unpainted texture the most common approach is to mist it with a spray bottle and scrape off the softened texture. Removing popcorn ceiling that way makes a big sloppy mess and almost always leaves you with repairs to do afterward.