Cover Popcorn Ceiling With Plywood

Determine where you would like trim lines to go to cover any gaps between boards.

Cover popcorn ceiling with plywood.

Popcorn ceiling if you have a heavily textured ceiling and just don t like the look you have a few options. I think it was a lazy way of covering up the ceilings back then. Instructions measure your ceiling and determine how much beadboard you need. Between each row we used a nickel for a spacer.

Fortunately in most cases it s not necessary because you can easily cover up that unsightly texture with ceiling panels or planks. Years later we painted the ceiling in the kitchen. It made for a very speedy job. Cut your beadboard to size.

Covering a popcorn ceiling with drywall. This method involves installing a complete layer of 1 4 3 8 or 1 2 inch drywall over the popcorn ceiling screwing the drywall into the ceiling joists above the original ceiling. By using armstrong ceilings easy up system to install ceiling planks you avoid sanding and scraping by affixing tracks directly onto. One of our favorite ideas for this material is covering popcorn ceiling with beadboard.

Most options easily install directly over your existing popcorn ceiling using the easy up track and clip installation system. Who in the world thought popcorn ceilings were a good idea. Remember you need all the stripes to go the same way. You ll need to make a few cuts as you go to ensure a proper fit all around and of course staggering your boards.

Cover the rest of your ceiling. Get rid of all of that popcorn by covering every inch of it with planks. Brad nail into the ceiling. The next morning we awoke to large sheets of popcorn ceiling on the floor.

Thin plywood for ceiling planks. Rip wood on the table saw. With unpainted texture the most common approach is to mist it with a spray bottle and scrape off the softened texture. When we built our house in the 80 s of course that s what went on the ceilings.

Hold beadboard in place. I used six 4 8 sheets for this project. Beadboard panels are an efficient economical way to get that popular tongue and groove porchy look to cover up an unattractive ceiling. I decided to use thin plywood known as underlayment for my ceiling planks.

Not only is it less messy and time consuming but it is also a fairly easy process that any aspiring diyer can tackle in a weekend. Adding a new drywall layer also gives you the option of insulating directly over the old ceiling before adding the new drywall. Receiving my new maytag appliances spurred and inspired a lot of home improvement projects including this cover up the ugly popcorn plank ceiling project. Removing popcorn ceiling that way makes a big sloppy mess and almost always leaves you with repairs to do afterward.

We used a bostitch air compressor and nail gun and 1 and 3 8 inch 18 gauge nails to nail the plywood planks into the ceiling. Removing a popcorn ceiling is a messy time consuming job.