Skim Coat Over Popcorn Ceiling

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Skim coat over popcorn ceiling. There will be very obvious knife lines due to skipping over the popcorn texture and you will think you ve made a huge mistake that can t be fixed. Don t even try to worry about making it look good here. Scraping popcorn texture.

Removing popcorn ceiling that way makes a big sloppy mess and almost always leaves you with repairs to do afterward. On this painted popcorn ceiling project i ll be skim coating over it using a 14 inch drywall taping knife 16 inch stainless steel mud pan and an all purpose joint compound made by usg. Skim coat your ceiling will still have some texture but a skim coat won t look dated like a popcorn texture does.

Just skim coating projects popcorn ceiling is also an older ceiling pre 1978 which could have as asbestos or lead paint. Scraping dry texture is a dusty mess and skim coating requires some practice. With painted texture some pros scrape as best they can and then skim coat the entire ceiling with a thin layer of joint compound.

First layer will be kind of thick.