Power Sanding Popcorn Ceiling

A sander is a planer tool and popcorn ceiling is three dimensional.

Power sanding popcorn ceiling. Popcorn ceilings can be seen as such an eyesore on an otherwise beautiful home. Do not saturate the ceiling but wet it thoroughly. Start with a 4 foot 1 2 m area so the ceiling does not dry before you get to it. Just wet and scape.

When scraping a popcorn ceiling there is a very common belief that you can just scrape it and paint it. Don t fret if your ceiling is now clear but not. Only give it a light misting too much water could damage the drywall or loosen the joint tape. You ll probably need to skim it with a thin layer of joint compound to smooth out imperfections then sand it smooth before repainting.

So the first step in changing popcorn ceilings to knockdown ones is to get rid of the popcorn or at least most of it the carpenter lightly sprayed the ceiling with water working one room at a time. For easier scraping and practically no dust during popcorn ceiling removal use a garden pump sprayer to mist the ceiling and let it soak in for about 15 minutes before scraping. However the thought of manually sanding it off sounds so much worse than actually having to look at the ceiling itself. And i ve seen it do.

This was a picture of the kitchen with the popcorn ceiling and wallpapered walls. Follow up with a sander that can handle the dust. You can t always sand off popcorn texture. The popcorn will be sheared off by sanders that deal with the level as they were engineered to do.

If you want to know if you can sand off your popcorn ceiling texture i ll show you. It won t work about 80 of th. If you are sanding a popcorn ceiling wet the ceiling with water using a garden sprayer. At mississauga handyman we use a festool planex dust extracting power sander to both remove popcorn and sand out freshly skim coated ceilings and walls.