![]() ![]() ![]() Anyway if you want a perfectly flat ceiling my advice it to hire a pro, it won't cost that much more and it's worth it. If you watch some drywall YouTube videos (I like Vancouver Carpenter) it will look so easy, but then you'll try it and your hands just don't do what they're supposed to. Maybe it's not smooth now, but maybe the slight texture it has now is something you like more than a perfectly smooth ceiling? Anyway if you decide to DIY a skim coat, chasing perfectly smooth is incredibly frustrating when you are learning to work with drywall mud so be prepared for it to take a lot longer and be harder than you think. If you didn't think you needed to skim coat than maybe you don't. You could just try priming what you have now and see how it looks as a flattish white celling, primer looks similar enough to ceiling paint that you'll get the idea, and you can skim coat over primer. I guess it also depends on how perfect you want it. A professional won't be needing to sand much at all so dust control will be a much smaller issue, a pro can do it with less tools too just a big flat trowel to put the mud on the ceiling and skim it out all in one go pretty much. If you can find an available local guy it'll probably be cheap and worthwhile to just pay a pro. And some way to manage the dust, plastic sheets to seal off the room, a fan out a window for negative pressure, a shop vac with a fine particle filter, you can get ZEP sweeping compound to help sweep up the dust with a broom without just spreading it around.Īnyway skim coating a ceiling is an easy quick job for an experienced pro and will be a pain in the ass for you with lots of coats and sanding and trying again probably. You'll need a good sanding disc, and a telescoping pole to attach the trowel and sanding disc to. Then a big "magic trowel" or another brand squeegee style trowel to smooth it all out. To put it on the ceiling using a paint roller is the way to go for a beginner, it gets it up there and in a pretty even layer. You want premixed mud like Plus-3, you could water it down some and mix it with a cordless drill fine. My biggest challenge was my 12 foot vaulted living room and being on the shorter side the peak of that was a BITCH, thankfully I had a friend take over and his few more inches in high made it easier for him than me! The seams and corners, especially where we have crown molding, were somewhat challenging trying not to rip the drywall tape significantly, and the biggest issue with the molding is the paint peeling but I think taking a sanding block to it this weekend should clean it up nicely. It was definitely a messy process but it is SUPER easy once you get into a groove. I was initially quoted $6800 for an 1900 sq foot house and was like absolutely not I can do this on my own. If I had to do it again I still think I would, but I will caveat that with saying it depends how much it will cost me to have someone else do the skimcoating if I end up hiring out. These two coats will give you the most even uniform coverage across the whole ceiling-minimum overhead for maximum color refresh.Oh man if you end up remembering please link me to him! There are so many videos out there its overwhelming. Make just one pass.Īllow the first coat adequate time to dry per the manufacturer’s recommendation, and then roll a second coat, again in one pass only but in a direction perpendicular to the first coat. ![]() Load the roller fully, and apply to the ceiling in one direction only. And, rather than a roller pan, get the sort of 5-gallon bucket with a screen or grid-that’s what pros rely on to ensure the roller is sufficiently loaded with paint. Since you won’t want to be bending to refill your roller more than necessary to paint popcorn ceiling, use a long-napped roller cover to load on plenty of paint in one swoop. Plan to do a second coat if you don’t get full coverage in one pass of painting a popcorn ceiling. Once the textured aggregate gets wet, it tends to peel off, so don’t overwork any area just gently apply paint and move on. Load the brush with plenty of paint but apply with a light touch. Pull out the paint! Popcorn and other textured surfaces require more paint to achieve full coverage, so plan to use twice as much of the supply as you would on a flat ceiling.Ĭut in around the ceiling edge with an angled brush. Use a feather or microfiber duster-or your vacuum with the soft bristled dusting brush attachment-to banish dust from all nooks and crannies so that it doesn’t speckle the paint you apply to the popcorn ceiling. ![]()
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