Remove Texture From Ceiling

Alternatively take a 6 joint knife but first use a grinder to round the edges to prevent damaging gouging the ceiling drywall.

Remove texture from ceiling. When the texture has a coat of paint though. Then take a cardboard box cover 1 or 1 1 2 inch lip and simply scrape the cottage cheese texture off into the box cover. So i had to go back to a regular sander.

Spray ceiling with garden sprayer soapy water as texture softens remove texture using scrapper with careful sweeping motions. If the ceiling is painted white drywall finishers sometimes leave texture unpainted and when they do you can remove it by wetting and scraping it. Have a spray bottle filled with warm water.

Spray a workable area and wait a few minutes. I tried sanded with my palm sander but that didn t work at all and broke my palm sander. To remove texture without gouging the drywall hold the blade approximately 30 degrees to the wall and scrape in whatever motion feels most comfortable to you using long slow strokes.

After you remove all the texture you need to fill and sand any holes and cracks. For the most part we found two different methods for removing texture. Repair damaged sections of drywall with drywall compound.

This is the worst part. You can either take a power sander and sand the texture off of your ceiling or you can wet it and scrape it. Removing texture from a ceiling happens probably exactly the way you expect it will.

Some texture comes off easily without water but in most cases wetting is best. Continue until all texture is removed. If the water doesn t soak in and soften the texture the ceiling has probably been painted or paint was added to the texture mix.