Remove Ceiling Texture
To remove texture without gouging the drywall hold the blade approximately 30 degrees to the wall and scrape in whatever motion feels most comfortable to you using long slow strokes.
Remove ceiling texture. If the room has air registers cover them with plastic or your house could fill with sanding. Even with the bag removing the texture will disperse clouds of drywall dust in the room. Also this is going to get messy like really messy so cover up what you don t want to have to throughly clean later.
The end result is a beautiful flat ceiling. Sand the old texture with a drywall power sander that has an attached dust collection bag. Our living room area is somewhat large so we had plenty of area to cover to perfect our technique.
Put on all over protective gear from head to toe as well as eye protection and face mask. Remove all breakables and knick knacks from the work area and cover furniture and walls with plastic. Step 2 move the power sander from side to side sanding in swaths about 4 feet wide from one end of the ceiling to the other and then back again.
Removal of stippled textured ceilings using steam and wet sanding. So to remove popcorn ceilings you need to get them wet. Every texture requires a different process to get smooth ceilings.
I have a ceiling that has unpainted texture how do i remove it. Asbestos acoustic texture manufactured before 1980 may contain asbestos and should be tested before being removed. We used a pump sprayer that we picked up at menards to wet the ceiling in 2 x 2 sections allowed it to absorb for 2 5 minutes and then removed the texture with drywall taping knives.
Sand off the texture with a drywall sander and. Some texture comes off easily without water but in most cases wetting is best. This is how i tackle an orange peel texture.