My ceiling in my new apartment has this "popcorn" ceiling that I fricking hate.
Would it be bad or damage something if I just scraped it into a flush surface? Any ideas how to do exactly that?
My ceiling in my new apartment has this "popcorn" ceiling that I fucking hate.
Apartment, as in you don't own it? Then you don't touch it. You ask the landlord to do something about it. Maybe scrape your hand on it and tell him that you cut it on the jagged finish while you were bouncing off his wife's behind in bed.
This
Also it’s going to be a fricking mess to remove it. Godspeed anon. My wife hates it upstairs at our house but I refuse to remove it until we decide to get new carpets because that shit gets everywhere.
Apartments can be owned in the first world
I attempted this when I bought a house that had popcorn stuff on every wall. The ’smooth wall’ filler paint stuff doesn’t work. Scraping it gives you a bad surface to it’ll need to be plastered again anyway. If it’s drywall it’s 100% easier to just put up new drywall, because any attempt to remove it will give you a heap of flakes of the stuff and a ton of gypsum dust
>If it’s drywall it’s 100% easier to just put up new drywall, because any attempt to remove it will give you a heap of flakes of the stuff and a ton of gypsum dust
Not even slightly true in my 20 years of painting and many ceiling jobs. Moisten the ceiling with a pump sprayer and water. Scrape carefully with a large mud knife. Skim any bad places with mud. Far easier than tearing sheetrock out, installing new, taping, mudding, sanding (how about all that dust?), replacing crown molding when necesary.
You guys love to post this "replace drywall" shit like it's a one step - one day job.
>Moisten the ceiling with a pump sprayer and water. Scrape carefully with a large mud knife.
It's really this simple.
Anyone complaining about dust just didn't do any research.
>Would it be bad or damage something if I just scraped it into a flush surface?
Damage? Maybe, depends on how careful you are with a putty knife.
But consider why there's a popcorn ceiling in the first place: to disguise the fact that the ceiling isn't flat. You may hate how it looks after removing the popcorn ... it might look worse.
>It's really this simple.
No it’s not. Many times the ceiling has been painted and that makes scraping much more of a pain in the ass.
This. Our house had acoustix popcorn shit. You dampen it with water and it removes and traps 95% of the dust. Seal off your HVAC and scrape it off. I held a bag under to catch as it drops and a shop-vac near to catch stray shit. Removed 2000 sq.ft of this shit.
>Apartments can be owned in the first world
Apartments don't exist in the first world
>Apartments can be owned in the first world
that's called a condo moron
If it can be owned, it's a Condo
I don't get why people hate popcorn ceiling so much. What's the big deal? Most people's ceilings are just pure flat white anyway I don't see why that's totally okay but somehow a little texture is the worst thing ever.
For most people it's just a visual trend thing, but frick me sideways if it's in a stairwell or basement. Ripped myself up so many times helping friends move into or out of places with it. I doubt the average person has that particular gripe though.
It attracts dust which is impossible to clean out of the popcorn without damaging it. If you are able to keep dust from forming, you might be ok but if you have pets, females, or smokers in the house, you're doomed.
Dust and it falls out after awhile
The only benefit they bring is they knock echos and reflections out. They're officially called acoustic ceilings for that reason but ever since scraping mine and painting I don't care for the benefits. It's immediately noticeable after it's scraped the sound differences don't get me wrong but it's too much of a PITA to upkeep just so a room sounds less hollow
It looks like shit and it's quite literally impossible to clean.
My current house has it in the kitchen of all places, which paired with the fact that the stove just has a recirculating fan means that over the years it's collected a mixture of dust and grease in every single nook and cranny. Luckily it's the only room that has it and it's not that big so there's not too much I need to remove, but because of when the house was built there's a very real chance it's fricking asbestos so that's another pain in the ass to deal with.
Lol if you do this you are going to regret it bigly. Never scrape that shit unless the house is vacant and you can clean clean clean. You will be eating and breathing dust for the rest of the time you live there and then the landlord will charge you for them having to retexture and paint it after you move out.
*not to mention that if your apartment is pre-78 then you may also be unleashing asbestos into your air.
Just do acid and you'll love the popcorn ceiling
Snap my brother in hallucinogenics <3
Based
Or get morning glory seeds and extract the LSA from them
Move to a shithole that doesn't have it. My house has it and I like it. Makes a room much quieter instead of the echoy shit houses are today.
That’s why it’s called acoustic
Take magic mushrooms and stare at it. Soon enough you'll learn to love it.
You must really hate your security deposit.
My house got the anus print ceiling
Why do people feel the need for walls and ceilings to be textured? What's wrong with flat featureless surfaces? Textures seem decadent and unnecessary.
Google sound waves
cheaper since texture covers (or makes less noticeable) bad/lazy mud jobs, especially when its only on a ceiling the new guy can do that mudding while the more skilled guys can do the walls.
acoustics
Now I’ll never not call it that. Thanks. For the record it’s called stipple.
>it’s called stipple
Was. Now it's anus print.
>Would it be bad or damage something if I just scraped it into a flush surface?
You mean "bad or damage something", as in you're renting the place?
Some advice: When you are renting, it's a bad idea to modify it in any way that will take more than 15 minutes to completely reset it to move-in condition.
This doesn't apply if you get the written permission of your landlord. When I was 20, I completely re-did the bathroom floor in my apartment in exchange for a month's rent, but it was agreed upon beforehand.
Get it tested for asbestos
Testing before a project is cheap
But once that shit gets disturbed the cost for everything gets several zeros added to it
t. almost had to pay big money for remediation
Or just never test it, bag it up, and throw it all in the trash. You should be wetting it down and using a respirator anyways.
You sound like you think asbestos testing is done just to satisfy "the man" and it's not actually harmful.
Imagine sometime in the future, going to the doctor with a persistent cough, and he tells you "bad news you've only got a year left"
And you think, "Jesus, I'm only 50. I guess I shouldn't have been so careless with my popcorn ceiling 20 years ago"
Almost all the cases of mesothelioma involved people who were exposed to asbestos on a long term occupational basis.
People aren't catching cases of this after scraping a popcorn ceiling once while it was wet and using a respirator
They will be exposed to it in a daily basis if they don’t prime and paint it after they scrape it - assuming it has asbestos in it.
Popcorn is easy to remove. Use a 5" putty knife and brush it across the popcorns. Then take a pump sprayer filled with water and saturate the popcorn. Use the 5" putty knife to scrape the popcorn. Should take about 2-3 hours per room. Dont gouge the ceiling or youll have more mudding to do. Also the popcorn hides a lot of bad mudding work. Once all the popcorn is romoved mud the damaged areas and sand smooth. Primer and paint it.
yea just use a propane roofing torch to burn it all off real fast, it works great
Removing popcorn can be done but is a b***h. Google it. Wear a mask.
after you will need to skim coat the entire ceiling, then sand the entire ceiling. It's hours and hours of work.
Like some have said textured ceilings became popular to hide rushed drywall work.
In many cases, provided you are careful when you scrape it, you can just prime and paint the ceiling and it will give you a not-smooth finish that looks fine. When I scrape for myself I usually don’t mud back over the ceiling unless I absolutely have to.