- So guys, this is MJ100k and I am on lockdown
because of the coronavirus.
So I'm trying to scrape off all this terrible,
whatever you call this finish popcorn, whatever.
I don't know.
There's some kind of ridiculous flower design.
Anyway, I'll show you how I did it.
I'm not the expert on this, but it seems to be working.
So anyway, let me show you how I was doing it at first
which doesn't work that well.
Just taking a, thinking it's trying to scrape it.
You can see it takes forever doing it like that, right?
So that's how I got all these nicks
in the ceiling before.
But when I started doing it a different way,
it worked a lot better.
So anyway, I just grabbed my little sprayer,
I just put water in it.
And what I'm gonna do is just sweat it down a little bit.
So now if you just start scraping it
right after you wet it down, it's not gonna work as good.
So what I'm gonna do is I'm gonna let it soak in
for like 20 minutes and then I'll show you
how easy it is to get off.
We're gonna come back in about 20 minutes.
All right, it's been about 20 minutes.
So let's see if that made it any easier.
All right, so as you can see,
it's much easier now and it comes right off.
Now I did hear that some of this popcorn ceiling stuff
has asbestos in it but my house was made in the '70s,
so I'm hoping it doesn't.
It should be alright I guess
But since I was a mechanic
probably already been exposed to a whole bunch of asbestos.
So I'm not really too worried about it.
But if you are worried about it
you could probably send this stuff out to a lab or something
before you start doing this.
So I'm gonna keep doing this.
This job will probably take about an hour or less
for this room.
But if I just scraped it without the water
it probably would've take fricking all day.
Oh, I didn't wet that part enough.
But anyway, yeah.
So what I'm gonna do is I'm gonna scrape all this stuff off
and then I'm going to skim coat the ceiling,
which is just basically taking drywall mud
and putting a light coat against the whole ceiling
to kind of fill in
all these little imperfections or whatever.
I've done this before.
It didn't come out perfect before
but it was close enough to what I desired.
So anyway, that's how I did it.
You can do it that way if you choose to
or if not, you can just take the whole ceiling drywall down
with the insulation and replace every piece of drywall
and the insulation in the ceiling.
And that'll be a big headache.
But anyway, do it however you want.
That's how I did it.
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