Can you scrape popcorn ceilings yourself?

Spray the Ceiling With Water Before Carefully Scraping Away the Popcorn Texture. Fact: A wet scrape is easier than a dry scrape. Use a garden sprayer to wet a small area (four-by-four-foot) of the ceiling. After you spray with a garden sprayer or spray bottle, wait about 15 minutes to let the water absorb.

Is it worth scraping popcorn ceiling?

If you discover that your popcorn ceilings contain asbestos, don’t panic—and don’t try to remove it yourself. Removing it will cause the particles to escape into the air, making it easy for you and your family to breathe in the carcinogens.

What is the cheapest way to remove popcorn ceilings?

Consider These Options to Cover the Popcorn

1. Simply texture and paint the ceiling. To hide your popcorn ceiling with a simple texture and paint job, you can use a spray texture to spray onto the ceiling in small blotches, and then flatten them out with a drywall knife.
2. Ceiling tiles.
3. Wooden ceiling planks.

Do I need to texture my ceiling after removing popcorn?

You need to properly sand the ceiling once you remove the popcorn and top off the bad seams and the dings. Priming the ceiling before painting will be a wise move. Painting on bare drywall will absorb the paint’s moisture and will not allow even distribution of the texture.

Will popcorn ceilings ever come back in style?

No. When left intact and undisturbed, these materials do not pose a health risk to people living in it. Despite the outdated style, and, well, asbestos, popcorn ceilings still top many homes throughout the US. But, if you are looking into buying a new property, you’re going to want that sucker gone.

How do you clean up after removing popcorn ceiling?

After you spray down the ceiling completely the second time, go back to where you began, take your putty knife, and scrape the popcorn right off the ceiling. If it doesn’t come down easily with one scrape, stop and let the water soak in more or spray more water on the ceiling.