Hey guys Aaron McAnelly here the Handy Therapist
today I'm gonna be showing you how to take care of your popcorn ceilings, if your house
was built in the 70s 80s maybe early 90s you probably have some popcorn ceilings
nobody likes it but it's hard to take down yeah
take the back it's not hard it's messy nobody wants to do it that's time to do
it is before you have anything in there or if you're about to redo the carpets
something like that because it does make it a little bit of a mess or a big mess
anyways all you need a water sprayer or garden sprayer something kind of get the
popcorn ceiling wet tarp lay down just to kind protect everything and some sort
of trowel and so I'm going to catch all the crap that you that you take down so
I recommend using a 12 or 14 inch trout you can technically use a smaller
trout's but they're more likely to kind of gouge and it's going to take forever
I mean think about that I mean going across a whole ceiling would take
forever with this little 1 inch or 3 or 4 inch so anyways
14 or 12 inch trowel alright let's go downstairs get this ready put some water in this guy
I'm outside just gonna fill this up with water some people say that
it's best to put a little bit of fabric softener in there I tried both ways
water to me works a lot better than just putting a little fabric softener
I don't know if they think that's supposed to loosen it up a little more
or maybe they just like the smell but anyways water has worked the best for me
so doesn't have to be anything fancy fill this guy up with water.
this is just a regular garden sprayer you get Home Depot, Lowe's, Walmart for 10 to 20 bucks
it doesn't have to even be this big put a little in alright
pressurized sprayer you can technically use a spray bottle, all just got to do is get it wet
but your hand will be pretty tired cuz you're spraying this thing
pretty liberally, alright lets see if it works
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ready, let's go upstairs and get that place prepared
so like I said you definitely
want to put something down to catch all the junk you're gonna be tearing off
this is very messy job and ideally you'd rather do this when you don't have to stay clean
we have just a huge tarp here all right and that's being pretty got a tarp down
We use this so we can reuse it
Alright, doesn't have to be anything pretty
got our tarp down
if you want to be a little more particular you can even tape it to the
wall so it really catches something we're gonna replace our carpet hopefully
pretty soon anyways so it doesn't matter too much of you a little bits on there
but vacuum you know so all right let's get started
got our sprayer, got our popcorn ceiling, all you got to do put it on the fine
setting doesn't have to be necessarily but works the best for me and you spray
this thing down you want to get it nice and saturated I usually work in
I don't know, 10 by 10 foot sections maybe less, 5 by 5, saturate the
heck out of it getting too much is not not really a thing it makes it easier
if it's too dry it doesn't really work
you see how this would take forever if you had a squirt gun or a squirt bottle
see how it's kind of changing colors up there where it's wet so all this stuff
is is drywall compound they spray up there so some people may have some
painted areas I can see right here whoever I have that house before us
painted this little area that's where it kind of gets annoying the mess with that
paint words is like a barrier to not allow a little bit of water to kind of
soak in and it makes it a lot harder to scrape off but we'll deal with that when
we get to it so if you spray too much and it dries before you get there you
can just spray a little bit more this is a pretty small room so I'm just probably
gonna spray about half of it we're gonna take down that fan anyways
I'm just going back over all the spots
you definitely don't want it to be dry the wetter the better
all right so we played with different we played with different timings on how
long you let that sit I'd say at least three or four minutes all right
ready to get it so we've let this sit for maybe one or two minutes we'll see
if that's long enough may not be level soon so what I do you want to put it at
about a 45 degree angle you can do it you definitely want a 90 degree about 45
degrees what I do is I actually set it on the tray so you use the tray to kind
of push up against it and then it just gives a little bit more pressure and a
little closer so it doesn't make quite a bit of a mess
so anyways push up and scrape pretty hard as you can see
smooth as a baby's bottom there's the popcorn ceiling all gone
it doesn't take long
heres what I mean about the part that's kind of painted you can see when I try to go over it much
tougher this area right there was painted this area was not the part that's
not just flies right off this part I gotta get a little deeper I could
probably leave it like that since we're going to texture it anyways but if
you're trying to make it flat a flat surface I'll take a little bit more
elbow grease here's what it looks like when you scrape it off so here's that
part that was all painted all sticking together but makes pretty much of a
pretty big mess just want to put that in the trash can afterwards all right so last
stroke here took me about 30 minutes or so to do this room
as you can see it's a little messy
but i don't know how much it would cost to have someone else do this so
may as well do it yourself, save some money if you don't mind getting messy
so a couple tips
if you have any trouble getting it off, spray it down a little bit more
the wetter it is the easier it is also don't ever kind of tilt it like
this and gouge in there or make a bunch of little holes and or they already have
to come back and fill those in later so 45-degree angle push it up in there we
are done with this room so you're gonna texture here a bit there's another video
alright here's what it ends up being to dump that guy out
this isn't full there's a bunch of trash in there into there but anyways
pretty dang messy all right get to it go do it