How To Wood Plank A Popcorn Ceiling

You do not want it soaked but somewhere between a light spray and dripping.

How to wood plank a popcorn ceiling.

We got 6 planks out of each sheet of plywood. This created just a small line between the planks to make them more visible yet not allow any of the popcorn texture to show through. Cover your floor and spray a small section of the ceiling let sit for a minute or so and while holding the mud tray under the scraper start scrapping letting the plaster fall into the tray. This meant that once the planks were nailed up we were done.

And for a little extra security we ll squirt some liquid nails on the back side of each plank too. If it is just the popcorn then the removal consists of spraying the ceiling with water i used a 1 gallon garden sprayer with water from our sink and scraping. Between each row we used a nickel for a spacer. You want to make sure that your planks run perpendicular to the joists in the popcorn ceiling.

Take your first piece of wood and make sure to apply your adhesive to the backside of the board from there set the board in place and line it up across the joists. Before we started the ceiling ed cut all the plywood into 8 planks. The wetter it is the easier it is to come off. Scraping the popcorn ceiling is not that hard of a job all you need is a spray bottle with water a 6 inch scraper and a cheap drywall mud pan.

He made a sled shown below to speed up the process. It made for a very speedy job. It s still covered in popcorn but since we re doing the planks we didn t see any point in scraping it all off we ll just find the ceiling joists with a stud finder mark them with chalk lines and nail gun them into the joists.