Compare wood and vinyl options and choose the one that best suits your budget and diy aspirations.
Cover popcorn ceiling with plywood.
Cover the rest of your ceiling.
This method involves installing a complete layer of 1 4 3 8 or 1 2 inch drywall over the popcorn ceiling screwing the drywall into the ceiling joists above the original ceiling.
Removing a popcorn ceiling is a messy time consuming job.
Receiving my new maytag appliances spurred and inspired a lot of home improvement projects including this cover up the ugly popcorn plank ceiling project.
Years later we painted the ceiling in the kitchen.
Instructions measure your ceiling and determine how much beadboard you need.
Determine where you would like trim lines to go to cover any gaps between boards.
Most options easily install directly over your existing popcorn ceiling using the easy up track and clip installation system.
Not only is it less messy and time consuming but it is also a fairly easy process that any aspiring diyer can tackle in a weekend.
Get rid of all of that popcorn by covering every inch of it with planks.
Between each row we used a nickel for a spacer.
Hold beadboard in place.
It made for a very speedy job.
Fortunately in most cases it s not necessary because you can easily cover up that unsightly texture with ceiling panels or planks.
Rip wood on the table saw.
Thin plywood for ceiling planks.
Cut your beadboard to size.
Removing popcorn ceiling that way makes a big sloppy mess and almost always leaves you with repairs to do afterward.
I used six 4 8 sheets for this project.
One of our favorite ideas for this material is covering popcorn ceiling with beadboard.
With unpainted texture the most common approach is to mist it with a spray bottle and scrape off the softened texture.
I think it was a lazy way of covering up the ceilings back then.
By using armstrong ceilings easy up system to install ceiling planks you avoid sanding and scraping by affixing tracks directly onto.
Covering a popcorn ceiling with drywall.
Covering up a popcorn ceiling is a great alternative to removing it by hand.
You ll need to make a few cuts as you go to ensure a proper fit all around and of course staggering your boards.
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.
The next morning we awoke to large sheets of popcorn ceiling on the floor.
I decided to use thin plywood known as underlayment for my ceiling planks.
Beadboard panels are an efficient economical way to get that popular tongue and groove porchy look to cover up an unattractive ceiling.
Brad nail into the ceiling.
We used a bostitch air compressor and nail gun and 1 and 3 8 inch 18 gauge nails to nail the plywood planks into the ceiling.
Remember you need all the stripes to go the same way.
Who in the world thought popcorn ceilings were a good idea.
