How To Remove Texture From Ceiling

Popcorn ceilings make rooms look so dated.

How to remove texture from ceiling. If you have a stomp texture on your ceiling then the person who created it did so by spreading a coat of drywall joint compound and using a stomp. When i redid my husbands office last year i wanted to remove texture from the ceiling. How to remove a painted stomp textured ceiling.

Once you paint the ceiling however it s nearly impossible to repair small areas of texture without creating a patched look. A stomp texture is made by rolling thinned joint compound on the ceiling and then tamping the wet texture with a slap brush. I have ceiling texture that is painted and hard to remove.

Figuring out how to remove a popcorn ceiling texture from a ceiling is a messy chore but worth the effort if the substrate underneath is in good shape. A coat of primer and then a coat of satin paint makes the ceiling look really nice and modern. Subscribe to this old house.

Sometimes it sands off with relative ease and can still be worth your while sanding it down flat. The popcorn ceiling had been painted at least once so rather than trying to remove it right down to the drywall i just scraped the popcorn off and left the texture on the ceiling. The original idea was to hide the imperfections of the ceiling which makes sense.

Ceiling texture adds a subtle design element and conceals small drywall taping discrepancies. It can be a real pain to match if you have cracks or holes in need of patching. As we mentioned earlier in this article having a painted textured ceiling is a whole different ballgame.

Ask this old house painter mauro henrique smooths over a textured ceiling using joint compound.