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I’m in the middle of a big remodel (my house) and have low angle cathedral ceilings with pocorn. want to remove it but save sheetrock if possible. Saw a tool in Better Homes and Gardens for this. Any one have experience? What are problems associated with this? PS before you all gasp at my magazine reading I suscribe to FW and FHB!
Thanks in advance.
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I've heard of spraying it down with a water bottle, let it sit, then scrape it off. My concern is asbestos, depending on how old it is.
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geoff....go buy a garden pump up sprayer at hardware store...maybe $20... fill it with hot water and some dish soap... wet down area ... then scrape off with drywall knife... this should work unless popcorn got painted...
if have painted popcorn...easiest solution is laminating another layer of drywall on top of what you have...
good luck....dont forget to put plastic under your dropcloths to collect the debris
*Hey Eric, What is the purpose of adding the dishsoap to the water??Donna
*We have had good luck spraying it with a garden sprayer, and then peeling it off with a 6" knife. Though this system works alot better if the rock was primed first.Jon
*If you wet it you will have a heavy sticky mess. You'd be amazed at the volume. Scrape it dry onto a drop cloth and you can sweep it up and then vacuum. Then, you can wet down what's left and scrape that. Much easier this way.
*Donna, Soap makes water wetter and it does much better. L. Siders
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Mike:
I disagree. Wetting first is the only way to go. The trick is to only wet sufficiently to get popcorn saturated and it peels off perfectly with a 6" taping knife. The moisture also reduces the fine particulate matter in the debris. As mentioned in other posts, the popcorn should be tested for asbestos prior to removal.
*GDid the same thing to all my ceilings after two hurricanes. Pump sprayer works great with 6" knife , but I held a paint roller pan under as I scraped and saved a lot of cleanup. Be prepared to finish the joints again as most rockers only pull them twice when they know they are going to spray t
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Dear GeoffM,
We do not care if you read Better Homes and Gardens or Vogue or Cosmo or Victoria's Secret. This is
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not, er, some other discussion board. We actually
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to watch PBS.
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*PattyWait a minute here girl. . . eveni wehave to draw some lines (chalk, not nose candy). . . I prefer Remy Martin with my Victoria's Secret and Mr. Big bar.(say now, is my freudian slip showing??) Bad jokes can always stand on their own. Can't get PBS where I live but do watch Canadian equivalent. Does Jack Kerouac qualify as trashy reading??? i Tragicallytrashy maybe??How's the Humidity down thar???-pm
*Oh, and what a great slip it was, Patrick! LOL!Kerouac is trashy? I thought trashy was anything not written in Latin...(See, Geoff, I told you the ones who would take issue would be the ones who onlyi pretendto watch PBS. Did you know that the Canadian equivelent of PBS is old reruns of "Boys in the Hall?") Hey, Patrick, right now, at midnight, the temperature is actually 73 degrees, buti feelslike a nice 80 degrees (as opposed to 95 degrees); the humidity is 87%. At 3:00pm this afternoon, the temperature was 86 degrees, but felt like 89 degrees; the humidity was only 44%. What I am saying here is that we don't even care about the humidity, because it doesn't really make any difference, as you can see.(Yeah, right.)
*Patty. . . didja mean "The Kids in the Hall"??. . . too(o) fag-o fer me. . . now re-runs of The Red Green Show might do it!!! Got yer real cult-chur, and yer 'duck tape' all wound together as it were. . . i "if the women don't find you handsome at least they'll find you handy" (more freudian slips. . . gotta drop this cross dressing. . . pass the mayo, Fiyo)So you can tell the dif-fernce between 86F and 89F eh??? My compliments. . .fine tuning in swelter land!!-pm
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I'm in the middle of a big remodel (my house) and have low angle cathedral ceilings with pocorn. want to remove it but save sheetrock if possible. Saw a tool in Better Homes and Gardens for this. Any one have experience? What are problems associated with this? PS before you all gasp at my magazine reading I suscribe to FW and FHB!
Thanks in advance.