MAN FUCK THIS SHIT!!!This room had a knockdown texture and popcorn ceiling. Im in the process of skim coating the walls and ceiling to get it all flat and smooth but holy shit, skim coating the ceiling is hard as fuck.I was using this room as a test run before working on the rest of the house but there is no way I can redo the whole ceiling in the living room and kitchen. What sucks is I have to finish the remodel before I can have another kid since my girl doesn't want me too occupied with work and remodeling while she's pregnant and with a new born. So I'm thinking of trying to cut corners. What I want to know from yall is if anyone has found a way to live with popcorn ceiling. I am trying to see if it would be possible to scrape the popcorn so that the bumps that protude the most get knocked off, while still keeping the layer of compound that is attached to the ceiling. I would still have an ugly ass texture but in hoping a dead flat paint would hide it. I dont want to remove the popcorn texture entirely because reapplying the skimcoat is such a fucking pain. If anyone has tried this coping method before and what were the results? Please and thank you.
Contarctor here. Paint won't cover it. It'll still be fucked. Strap it and apply another layer of ceiling. You lose 1-2" of height. Not a big deal. Walls: get yourself one of those drywall sanders off Amazon for $150 and settle in. They work well, they're just heavy. This is an axiom of construction Life, really: "Just as good but easier" doesn't exist. Carpentry isn't high margin. Your local contractor isn't doing extra labor that doesn't pay, he's doing the most efficient thing possible. If you want the same results you have to do the same work.
