Mudding Over Popcorn Ceiling

For a total style upgrade cover the ceiling with wood paneling or wood planks.

Mudding over popcorn ceiling.

Affix ceiling grade gypsum board which weighs significantly less than standard wall board right over the existing popcorn ceiling. Ceiling tiles drop ceilings and new drywall will also hide existing popcorn texture. And i ve seen it do. Removing popcorn ceiling that way makes a big sloppy mess and almost always leaves you with repairs to do afterward.

Covering a popcorn ceiling with drywall. In today s skim coating tips video i ll show you how to apply skim coat over a painted popcorn ceiling the skim coating tools i use and why you should skim. On this painted popcorn ceiling project i ll be skim coating over it using a 14 inch drywall taping knife 16 inch stainless steel mud pan and an all purpose joint compound made by usg. In today s video i m going to show you how to skim coat a ceiling.

I did the first skim coat o. 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. With unpainted texture the most common approach is to mist it with a spray bottle and scrape off the softened texture. You ll need to securely screw it into the framing and be proficient at mudding and taping for a seamless job.

Popcorn ceiling if you have a heavily textured ceiling and just don t like the look you have a few options. Adding a new drywall layer also gives you the option of insulating directly over the old ceiling before adding the new.