![]() Check to see if they still used asbestos in your area in the 80"s. ![]() I just finished removing the popcorn from my first floor ceilings and have started the second floor. DH and I actually lay in bed and look at the ceiling and talk about how much we love them. Then again, we were (actually we ARE) on a tight budget so saving another 1k I guess was worth it. Honestly, if we had to do it over again, I think we would pay someone to do it. I can't believe you cannot find someone to scrape the popcorn! Mayeb if they scraped the popcorn AND finished the ceiling? That price did not include painting, we primed and painted ourselves. We found a company that sprayed the knockdown for about $1200, and they also removed the popcorn in the garage for us and sprayed knockdown in there. We were disagreeing over which look to go for, but after all the popcorn was scraped, the waves in the ceiling were AWFUL and he agreed we MUST do knockdown. Not the tiny, dotty knockdown, but the big swoops. We knew if we did not do it at that time, we never would. It was very messy, but we had just purchased the house and ripped out the flooring, had no furniture, were knocking down walls, etc. He soaked the popcorn in patches, then we scraped. My DH wore one of those sprayers on his back, like you use to spray weedkiller. We had it tested for asbestos (our house was built in the 70s, I think a house built in the 80s is pretty safe) and we passed, so we did not have to worry about that. Plus, our ceilings are only 8ft.so it was just THERE.hnaging over us, it was so darn noticeable! We have a 2100 sq foot house and removed almost all of the popcorn ourselves. Painter came in and painted over and it's beautiful-no drywall seams or anything show through. The second guy just came in and sprayed on a thin coat with just slight texturing on the ceiling. The scraping is the really yuckie part of the job. I reported him to the Better Business Bureau. He just suggested that I wear a mask so I didn't breathe in the dust. I told him what the other firm had told me and he said he didn't know what they were talking about-this is how he has always removed popcorn. It would be just him, take 1 1/2 days and run just over $1K. just finish scaping just the way you've been doing (being careful not to dig into the existing ceiling under the popcorn) and he would come in after, put a thincoat of mud over it, and it would be fine. The second drywaller came and said, "no problem. The first firm came in and told me I had done a serious mistake removing the popcorn in this manner and it would take 3 men 4 days and almost $10K to fix the situation! I'm not an experienced DIYer so I was near panic when he left! While in the process of scraping, I had several drywall firms in to give me estimates on finishing the ceiling once I was done removing the popcorn. We haven't really even started yet and I'm flummoxed already.Ībout 5 years ago I started scaping off the popcorn ceiling in quite a few rooms in my house using a squirt bottle of water and wide putty scraper. ![]() Should we just ditch the whole ceiling and put new drywall up? Hang drywall over it? That's not going away just because the popcorn is removed. My concern is, if we make the effort to scrape, will I be satisfied with the end result? Even now, with the popcorn still there, you can see the waviness at every joint. Nobody seems to want to do the job, including us! Ha ha. We've done all the research on scraping, and we've had a few guys in to look at the job (it's about 525 sq ft). I've convinced H that we need to remove it. I cant clean it properly and it dates the house. In our entire house, there is that horrid popcorn textured ceiling, even in the kitchen. We're going to be replacing all the old vinyl floor (kitchen, dining, and foyer) and carpet (living room) with hardwood (solid cumaru to be exact). It's all pretty much open except for the kitchen partition wall. Background: we have a 80's split level, with the kitchen/dining area/living room on the first level. We're getting ready to get started on our kitchen remodel. I'm not sure if this is the proper forum or not, but I'm lurking here everyday so I thought I'd give it a shot. ![]()
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