our new ceiling!
sheets of popcorn falling down!
oh the popcorn!
this was the before shot!These are pictures of our ceiling. The last is our ceiling as it used to look. Before it is a close up, check out that popcorn! Nasty! it was dirty and ugly as all get out. We have been wanting to be rid of it every since we moved here. Adam took down some of it when he put up ceiling fans in a few rooms, but he said it was not easy to scrape off so we had put it off. He's on vacation this week and i thought we'd try a method i'd heard about. We sprayed the ceiling with warm water and then attacked it with putty knives, low and behold it just fell off! The warm water made all the difference, it began to come off in great sheets, there is a picture of one of the sheets, then the first pic is our bare naked ceiling. We'll be painting it next month probably, but i'm happy even to look at bare naked ceilings over popcorn.
You know scraping the ceiling was strangely satisfying. I can't explain it, i mean i suppose part of it was the fact that i was getting rid of something i hated so much. But mostly it was like that feeling of peeling sunburned skin. it feels so good to reveal the new perfect skin underneath, or in this case the beautiful bare FLAT ceiling, it was like peeling skin times 100! I loved it so much that when Adam took Lainey to ballet and took the other girls with him, i did the hallway by myself....loved it!
Should have called me. I used to strip ceelings all the time back when I worked for a painting contractor. Hudson sprayer with warm water with dishwashing liquid and a 12" trowl works great. Now float all the nail holes, feather the tape joints, sand with a wet sponge and borrow my texture hopper.
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