Covering Popcorn Ceiling With Shiplap

We used a stud finder to locate the rafters and marked their location.

Covering popcorn ceiling with shiplap.

One well known product is armstrong s easy up grid system. The planks are installed onto metal channels that are placed over the old ceiling and screwed to the ceiling joists. As long as. Once we cut down the planks we nailed them into the rafters and a 1 2 away from the walls.

The next morning we awoke to large sheets of popcorn ceiling on the floor. 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. 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 mail level all has popcorn ceilings and i will be using your idea to cover them all.

Who in the world thought popcorn ceilings were a good idea. Covering a popcorn ceiling with prepared ceiling planks prepared ceiling planks are fiberboard planks made especially for this purpose. When you cut the planks leave a 1 4 gap on each side for expansion. 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.

When we built our house in the 80 s of course that s what went on the ceilings. Cover popcorn ceilings if a popcorn ceiling or stained and damaged drywall or plaster is making your home look outdated it s time to trade that frumpy bumpy texture for something stylish and inviting. 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. See more ideas about popcorn ceiling covering popcorn ceiling ceiling.

I think it was a lazy way of covering up the ceilings back then. We have one last project for the family room kitchen yep that s right we installed shiplap on the ceiling in our modern farmhouse. Removing a popcorn ceiling is a messy time consuming job.