How To Remove Knockdown Ceiling Texture
Cut heavy plastic to size and tape it over outlets light.
How to remove knockdown ceiling texture. However all the little bumps and ridges from the texture create shadows that make the ceiling seem lower and darker. How to remove knockdown texture. Continue until all texture is removed.
Avoid plastic drop cloths which. Turn off the power to the room you re working in. Fill a pump sprayer with water and spray the entire wall evenly to soften the texture.
Ask this old house painter mauro henrique smooths over a textured ceiling using joint compound. A bit of demo and hanging a new ceiling sounds easier than messing around with something that isn t working out. Remove everything from the room in which the knockdown texture is to be removed.
Gather together all of the tools you will need to do the job. When i redid my husbands office last year i wanted to remove texture from the ceiling. Remove all light fixtures and ceiling fans.
Spray ceiling with garden sprayer soapy water as texture softens remove texture using scrapper with careful sweeping motions. Subscribe to this old house. Soak and scrape unpainted texture to prep and protect cover the floor with a canvas drop cloth and tape up exposed trim.
Popcorn ceilings make rooms look so dated. The original idea was to hide the imperfections of the ceiling which makes sense. Beyond that i don t know about knockdown texture but sanding down a ceiling without a drywall sander sounds like it sucks and trying to water scrape it sounds like it sucks and is super messy.