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by Steve

Asked on Jul 23, 2019

How can I remove a popcorn ceiling?

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Remove popcorn ceiling

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William
on Jul 23, 2019

Warm water in a spray bottle to wet it down. Wide putty knife for scraping. Plastic tarps to cover flooring/walls.

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Betsy
on Jul 23, 2019

Hi Steve: Boy are you adventurous! Anyway, this is a really icky and time consuming project, but here's how you do it:

https://www.familyhandyman.com/drywall/ceiling-texture/how-to-remove-a-popcorn-ceiling/?fbclid=IwAR3BS9qhQDjkX4s5oNAyVVvTjxZFOGnyLT3tGLsWEcUlNdPHakcoLQHocB0&trkid=soc-fhm-facebook

Good luck

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Mona Blake
on Jul 23, 2019

I scraped mine off.

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William
on Jul 23, 2019

https://www.hometalk.com/search/posts?filter=popcorn%20ceiling

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Fossee Restorations
on Jul 25, 2019

attach a scrapper to the end of a vacuum hose with ducktape (shop vacs work best) moisten the ceiling with a sprayer of warm water and let dry almost all the way. The stuff comes right off.

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- Rhonda
  on Sep 17, 2019
  
  Love this , makes perfect common sense. Excellent 👍
  
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Marilou Barba
on Jul 13, 2020

I painted my popcorn celling. is there an easy way to scrappe it?

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