The step ladder was good for me as I could get closer to the ceiling and I liked the angle better, while Spencer used the work platform. Even if you consider yourself a very careful person, some of the compound will land on the floor – but, that’s just kind of unavoidable. The smoother you can be with the mud, the less sanding you will have to do – but at this point, it was just about filling in the spaces between the “spider web” texture. As we sanded, we had a box fan in the window to help suck out the dust.Ĥ) Apply the drywall compound/mud so it fills the gaps in the texture. Glob some compound onto a tray & start smearing it onto the ceiling. At first, we tried the pole sander – this was a waste of time, frustrating and was not very effective for us. The sander kept flipping over when it encountered any resistance, so we broke out a regular sponge sand block. I will say that it is super important to wear proper protective gear during this entire process. We also sealed off the two doorways with plastic drop cloths and painter’s tape.Ģ) Scrape off plaster points with the knock-down knife. This is relatively fast, easy, and satisfying.ģ) Sand down the texture pretty significantly without going deep enough to damage the drywall. But first, we turned off the house ventilation and covered vents. The point being, we had a room that could be completely covered in drywall dust and that was okay. Inside corner trowel / Curved bucket scoop – they are just not needed.ġ) We started this project after the room was clear of all cabinets, the floor was down to the subfloor, and the pantry had been removed (I’ll get to this little bit of renovation later).Pole sander – it’s frustrating, ineffective, & keeps flipping over and gouges the surface (this could be our own user error).We anticipated that the cost to diy the kitchen ceiling would be approximately $150 in project-specific tools & supplies. Enjoy!Īs a reminder – the kitchen ceiling before:Īs we were going to update the kitchen, we knew it was likely that we were going to have damage / holes in the ceiling due to removing the cabinets & pantry – so, smoothing out the ceiling texture was already in the plan from the beginning. Surprisingly, though, the stipple continued behind the cabinets, so if we hand’t removed the pantry, there was a possibility of doing minimal work & keeping the stipple – if that was our goal…which it was not. At about 3 minutes in we discuss the tools we used, and further in we talk about the actual steps and process it took. Onward to the project!įirst – before we get to the photographs – we made a project review video!! It’s on the long side … so, feel free to skip around on it. In the end we were successful, but … well, let us just share our experiences below and let you be the judge. We were ready to take it on! … little did we know the effort & time we were about to spend smoothing out this ceiling. We originally received a quote to skim coat the kitchen ceiling for around $850 – that seemed a bit steep for one room (at the time) – so… we decided to do it ourselves. Bonus, now we had a terrible scraped patch to disguise… but it was no problem, the plan from the beginning was to skim coat the ceiling anyway. After our little popcorn texture removal experiment, we still had an entire kitchen ceiling with a lovely stippled or “stomped” ceiling texture.
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