House Painting & Popcorn Removal Raleigh NC

pikapp691

pikapp691

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Moving to a new house and want to have the ceilings scraped and repainted and some trim work painted. Anybody know of someone in the Raleigh area that does this?


Thanks
 
scraping the popcorn off isn't hard, just really messy. If you are replacing all carpet, pretty easy. If you need to keep carpet or hardwoods/tile, get a big roll of visqueen (plastic) and tape it up the walls about 3 feet all around before you get started.

You will need a sprayer (like a 3 gallon fertilizer sprayer). Secret is to use downey fabric softener 1 cup per gallon mixture. You'll need a respirator or breather, cause it is smelly.

Spray the ceiling liberally, wait for several minutes for it to sink in, then take a big sheetrock scraper and it comes right off. You might have to spray a couple of times if really thick.

when done, you can just roll up all the visqueen and old mud and chuck it.

Be forewarned, many spray because it is cheaper and it covers up all the bad sheetrock work. You will probably have to float out the ceilings if you are going to do flat or custom texture. I hand stomped the whole house when we moved out here. Flew my bro-in-law who is a sheetrock guy out for a week and we knocked it out before moving in.
 
Popcorn Ceilings with Asbestos

Depending upon the age of your house you need to consider that the popcorn might have Asbestos in it. Until Around 87 it could be manufactured with asbestos. After that point in time, it could not be made, but existing stocks could be used up. Removing the popcorn will release the asbestos into the air. If it does have asbestos the recommendation of experts (not that I am one) is to paint it with a sprayer or have it professionally removed which then requires expensive asbestos abatement procedures.

http://www.naturalhandyman.com/iip/infpai/popcornoff.html
 
My house in Willow Spring - built in 1981, I just went over it with a bucket of sheetrock mud mixed with white paint (paint mixed VERY important to save a step) and with a 6" round brush - dabbing and twisting up and down into bucket and on ceiling. Done the entire house in one night. Put it on really thick and came back 3 days later and swept it vigorously. Everyone that sees it says it's "trippy". Very unique, cheap, easy and probably the only thing I have ever done in my entire life that I didn't want to re-do differently. I had old carpet that doubled as underlayment.
Although sorta off topic, but sorta not. I just removed some asbestos siding and it went pretty smooth. Wore a respirator and kept it wet. The plastic underlay was the way to go. I then walked on it and broke it down while drowning it with the hose.
But I can see doing the same here but with a spray bottle or something.
 
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