Cover Popcorn Ceiling With Shiplap

We are doing a shiplap ceiling.

Cover popcorn ceiling with shiplap.

Years later we painted the ceiling in the kitchen. A shiplap ceiling is a great idea for covering popcorn ceiling. As long as. Scraping the popcorn ceiling is not that hard of a job all you need is a spray bottle with water a 6 inch scraper and a cheap drywall mud pan.

I bought a nail gun that is battery operated and has been working great on some weathered grey shiplap that we got from lowe s. Nothing dates a room quite like a popcorn ceiling. Removing a popcorn ceiling is a messy time consuming job. Covering a popcorn ceiling with tongue and groove paneling.

Hi gail to worst part is scraping the popcorn texture off i have often thought of the best and least messy way to do this and i have thought that maybe using a wide plastic drywall knife to scrape it but tape the knife to a shop vac end so it at least catches some of the popcorn as it comes off. Who in the world thought popcorn ceilings were a good idea. The mail level all has popcorn ceilings and i will be using your idea to cover them all. If the old ceiling is reliably flat you can install the paneling right over the old drywall.

When we built our house in the 80 s of course that s what went on the ceilings. You also have to be extra cautious if the ceilings were popcorned before 1979 because of the risk of asbestos. Cover your floor and spray a small section of the ceiling let sit for a minute or so and while holding the mud tray under the scraper start scrapping letting the plaster fall into the tray. The next morning we awoke to large sheets of popcorn ceiling on the floor.

Covering the ceiling with traditional tongue and groove wood planks or beadboard paneling that you can buy through any quality lumber supplier. I think it was a lazy way of covering up the ceilings back then. This is the old school option. We re sharing the progress on our farmhouse bedroom makeover.

When installing shiplap over drywall start with battens on finished ceilings family handyman if you re installing tongue and groove boards over drywall or plaster especially it s a good idea to install 1x2 battens and fasten them directly to the framing with 2 1 2 in.