I would also like to have a talk with these people who vandalize perfectly good walls/ceilings with what they think is "texture". What in God's name is this crap? It's SO hard to clean it up. :'(
@@FineBakedPastry yeah it is, and even harder to match the texture. i used to work for an hvac company doing mostly patches for new / eliminated / different sized ducts or acess holes cut in drywall or mistakes, and i would often have to patch and match various textures. a real nightmere to get it just right.
Contractors invented it as a way to speed up things by using the texture to cover up seams and imperfections. Lazy innovation as usual. That’s why expensive houses, even older ones, don’t have textured ceilings.
I have learned so much from you it’s unbelievable. I just finished a pretty major kitchen project and your videos made it possible. Thank you so much my friend.
Yep you're absolutley right about sanding. We sand between every coat and it makes every coat so much better. Nice and flat and no goobers in the spread when you put the next coat on.
It's sad when the high production videos on RUclips give out trash advise and then I come across this man who has all the answers I've been looking for.
@@morganstone897 Im in the middle of removing texture in my 1700sqft house now, with 17ft ceilings in one room...its a pain in the ass and harder than he makes it look!
@@morganstone897 Has your ass been kicked yet? ;) Because, yea, you're right. I've done this many, many times. Learning to float takes a bit of "artistry", but the actual "thing" is simply ridiculous amounts of labor!
@@morganstone897 Oh wow. I shouldn’t complain about my little area I’m going to start prepping and painting then. I hope it comes out beautiful for you and if your unsure so many videos. This man seems to know what he’s doing. So I’m going to do it the way he did.
Ben. You are... better than every other (carpenter) drywall finish pro on RUclips. Legitimately. Plus... you skate. You have single handedly (along with practice,) taught me this trade over the last 3 years. I f*c*in' love you, man.
I'm glad you said everyone has that guy that don't sand. My father in law and my cousins that are on my wife's mom's side all tape and texture. They call the sanding poll the "dummy stick" but when I sand I get a good finish, idk. I like the final product after sanding. I'm getting better tho to the point where I'm just scraping, mostly. We use knives and pans and break out the hawk for broquet and other stuff now and again. However, I appreciate the info with the hawk and trowel. Keep up the good work 💯👍
Another great instructional vid, right to the point with no frills. I learn a new little trick every time I watch you, and it increases my confidence in my work daily, so thank-you for all the effort you put in to your videos. 🙏
Craftsmanship at work. I love these videos. Including seeing blobs drop from the hawk on to your body! That is reality. I scraped my first popcorn ceiling last year and skim coated it along with the walls in a bedroom. The finished product turned out great, but it was a lot of work. This video makes it look easy. In my experience, it is definitely a learned skill. Started in my kitchen and 2nd time around it's going much better. I resorted to using the "apply mud with a roller" approach. For me, it helps me get more even coats.
Great job, also remember a good quality high hiding primer is a good friend, I used to always get it to a primer finish. One other thing, when your shoulders start telling you to stop doing this type of work listen before its too late, I'm paying the price now after 40 +yrs doing this stuff. thanks for posting
Thanks for the instruction on your trade. I just did a few rooms in my basement. Around a 100 4x8 sheets. Best job on drywall I ever have done and butt joints are invisible thanks to you. The amount of sanding was a lot less. The mess was a lot less. Great videos.
Allen Burns I learned how to use the hawk and trowel after watching his videos and I was amazed at how much faster it ended up being. It took me a little while to learn it but once I did I was off to the races.
Great video! Very informative and you explained the reasoning behind your technique which helps a lot and most people leave out; assuming beginners already know something. Thanks!
The best advice this guy gives is to leave the lines alone if you don’t have the skills and that they are normal to some extent. It helped me greatly not to be hard on myself. They come off with the scraper and light sanding very easily with the main areas near perfect.
I found that skimming over orange peel texture is easier in the sense that the texture bites the mud, and the little bumps give me a reference of how thick I need to skim.
Btw no idea how to send you a photo of a sticker I saw at the skatepark the other day but it made me think of you because it was a trowel/skateboard design. Some DIY park sticker.
Love your videos. I just had a quote for this -- C$13,000 for 3,200 square feet and another C$3,000 for painting it. I may just try this method in a walk-in closet or small room and see how desperate my wife is for me to cover the orange peel in the house.
So our house was built late 80s and we are getting ready to repaint, but there is texture on the walls and popcorn on the ceiling. My question is: would you wet and scrape the popcorn off or skim over it? If you scrape, do you have to skim anyways before painting it? As far as the lighter texture on the walls... skim it or sand it? And last, I promise: how do you estimate how much mud to get? I appreciate your insight. Your videos are by far the best ones in this subject...
thanks after watching many videos i went for it praticed on a wall behind washer and dryer after couple coats i got the hang of it did intire kitchen and ceiling on to rest of home have 100 year old home with ten layers of paper and paint popcorn ceilings with mud on top of that lol! before its dry competly i take water bottle and spray walls and skim off water with trowel and gets wall like glass smooth it actually shines even! what a workout also shoulders and arms and neck
Doesnt matter how many times I see your videos and learn about working on the corners, I still have such a hard time with them. Currently, well, tomorrow will be the final coat of my ceiling and I'm def gonna get the corners right this time haha
Thanks for the tip my friend! I'm repairing my ceiling and it didn't come out smooth. Your technique looks awesome. I'm gonna go for a second coat of mud and smooth her out , thanks again for the tutorial!
Hello. I have just finished a job in a appartement where I had to desassemble some walls and re-use materials to build some in other place. So I had to flaten the painted drywall. Same technic as you and customers were so happy with my job.
I did a whole house something like 4000 square feet of skim coat ceilings, and this is exactly how I did it. But man I under priced the job, and over worked my shoulder. U live n u learn
Have you ever tried a vacuum-attached sanding screen? I have found them to work well attached to a dust deputy to my vacuum so my filter isn't plugged as quickly
I use a sanding screen attachment on my dry vacuum and it knocked down the dust by 90 percent! WOW! Filters are not cheap but beats cleaning the house!
I am so glad you did this video! Moved in to a house where they did a crap job in the bathroom. Sheetrock is horrible, used mesh instead of tape in all the corners, and a very very light knockdown on walls and ceiling. I was just going to orange peel the crap out of it but now I am going to just mud it all first! 😊 Keep it up man.
Thank you for taking the time to show these videos on sheet rock and finishing sheet rock. I find them very helpful. Two days ago I did my first skim coat of a bathroom remodel using the paint roller technique. Worked pretty good still have some work to do though thanks again your videos are awesome
Love your videos. Still not certain i have the confidence to get rid of my popcorn ceiling. If there are cracks in the ceiling, do you recommend removing the texture on the crack, re-taping, then skimming? Or should i remove all of the texture and start fresh?
When I painted I remember we used to put a first coat on and the drywallers would come back and patch all the in-discrepancies. You make it look so easy.
Thank you so much for showing the imperfections! My first skim coat and it was NOT perfect! So many lines and gouges. Doing my second coat tomorrow because i spent all day sanding and fixing my mess! Hoping the second coat will go smoother than the first. FYI my walls were horrific! Looked like someone just blew bubbles in the wall. Had to use a rasp to get the paint off. J hi going skim coating can make it smooth. Thank you for your videos!
As I was skimming my 1980 popcorn ceiling flat, I noticed it's not level. There is bowing or cupping in places. Pillowing? It makes it so hard to skim even with a wide knife. I think it's because of humidity and they may have used 1/2" drywall not 5/8", house inspector didn't say anything about foundation problems. In some places it's up to a 1/2" gap, particularly where the wall meets the ceiling. Would you fill it? Or put up new drywall with furring strips? In my first 2 bedrooms I was able to fill it enough that you can't tell from the ground. But I don't think I'll get away with that in larger rooms. Your videos have helped me a lot, thx.
I would unscrew the light bulbs and push the sockets up in the housing with some crumpled up newspaper...then you don't have to swerve around the bulbs...just skim across. Nice work, Van Carp.
You make look so easy.. I'm going to try this process on my bathroom ceiling since it's smaller and see how it works. Hopefully I'll have the patience to get this done.. Thanks for the info..
Thanks Ben, I needed this one, I've screwed 1/2" drywall for ceilings on and taped, it is a lot of work too. I'm going to use this method on my next place. I really needed that tip about the 1st coat not touching the tips of the texture, many thanks. This method saves the mess of spraying water and peeling off the popcorn imo.
That looks like a stipple ceiling. its applied with a pneumatic stipple gun with a hopper for the compound. (by commercial installers) it can be applied with a roller. but not ussually with the texture you showed in this video. the easiest way to smooth out a stipple ceiling is to wet it with water (landscape spray gun works very well) then scrape the stipple of with a scraper. a sidewalk ice scraper with a 5' hand can be used from the ground. ladder work with a hand scraper for the corners. then apply mud to the ceiling to get a smooth finish.
Alan Bain yes but either way you have to put mud. This pretty much is less work. If it were me i would only do one coat. Smooth with damp sponge and then paint.
@@rickeykeeton4770 That's a good thought. I had given up thinking about using water because of the paint. I tried to use my sander with 80 grit paper and it got me to the drywall but at the price of a lot of dust. So I postponed that part of the project. I'll give your idea a try. Thanks.
Sooooo.... This is like the leveling of floors, but for the ceiling? And instead of scraping or sanding off the texture, we're using the 3 coats of dry wall compound to smoothen out the ceiling? Is one method preferred over another, esp for the longevity of the subsequently painted ceiling?
Question - How do I skim coat over a skip trowel texture? I've sanded and sanded and mudded and mudded and the "veins" of the old texture keep showing up when I skim coat. I used thicker mud and watery mud, I've done your roller method and applied gobs with a knife and pan. I little advice would be nice. Thanks.
Thank you so much for this video. I’m getting ready to paint and the ceiling is truly horrible. Plus it has cracks in it. So this will work perfectly! ❤️ Hope to see more of your videos for help with other areas of painting. Never knew it was a headache just finding right colors to match and be happy with. Never mind not even started the “ Fun Part” of prepping and painting.
I just finished doing this in my bathroom. It was unpainted stomp so I was able to sand it a bit before coating. Took me 4 coats to cover...and was also a terrible time to try to learn hawk and trowel! I also found it very helpful to do my finish passes 90 degrees from the previous coat's finish pass. It seemed to fill in low spots nicely. Any thoughts on that technique? Thanks for the tips Ben, great information as always!
Well done such a good job mate and so well explained love it I’ve got to small ceilings to do in my hall and stairs I’m going to give them my best shot cheers buddy larrysullivan in London
I have done stucco and drywall but I only use the hawk and trowel for plaster and masonry. Very smart. I never even brought it to the job on drywall. I will now. I think I could try it and see if I like my knife better but it seems like it would be way less stressful on your fingers and wrist your way.
Sometimes it just needs to be someone who will say "I also have liftoffs and bubbles and mud dropping down on me, and you know - that's ok because everybody is having that" to disarm your inner shame triggers and let you just work freely. So this video will massively change my approach how to make smooth surfaces with gypsum or polymer coatings. Thank you so much! Still, once I had to work with a silicate mud, because the wall was suspectible to mould. After drying, that mud became a like a stone, no chance to sand it at all. Also, cannot put some easier coating under the final layer - the whole cake from the wall concrete to the final layer had to be anti-mould, in this case something silicate. How would you approach this challenge?
Two questions. 1st what's your thoughts on ready mixed skimming coat. 2nd why didn't you just disconnect the lights. Push the wires up into the ceiling. Would have made it a lot easier than skimming around them.
One guy rolling it on, another wiping it smooth. Porter Cable drywall sander. In between coats and when done. Prime, check, touch up imperfections. Piece of cake.
great video, appreciate you putting them together. i did our ceiling a month or so ago and ran into a lot of said problems hah. but the next time! i'll be ready. thanks!
Really enjoyed your video. Thanks for all the info. Quick question. Is it okay to use CGC Redi Filler Compound for this kind of job? It says it is good for adhering to hard surfaces etc... but I read online in one thread that it may not dry as well as all purpose Dry Wall Compound. Thanks in advance for your help.
For textured ceilings, will you almost always just skim over it? Or will you ever scrape off the texture first before touching up and then priming/paining? What's your general preference?
In the UK plasterers would skim that and trowel finish it, no sanding and it would be all done in a couple of hours. The mud you are using there, Is that prone to cracking? The way you handle a trowel I'm sure to take to gypsum plastering easily.
This. I just don't get what these foreign lads do, it's so much more work. Like you say, 2 coats and a polish, job done. Bollocks to sanding the day after.
This video is SO on point. I'm really debating if I should try to add a second gypsum to hide the popcorn texture, or to skim coat the hole thing. I don't do this for a living, but i'm manual-ish to work around the house. What would you recommand ? Finding the trusts could be a pain installing those gypsum panels, but having a nice clean flat suface seems like rough and toff for beguiners...
Great video! We asked a painter to remove or skim cost our painted texture ceiling. He said he stopped doing the skim coat several years ago,because the skim coat only last a few years . He suggested us to put a blue board to cover it. Can you comment on this?
Is this process faster than wetting the popcorn and scraping it off then fixing imperfections and priming? Seems like 2 coats 2 sanding is about the same as scraping fixing and priming. Curious which you think is faster. I have a huge number of square footage I’d like to get rid of but I think my shoulders could not do it all.
This.... THIS!! I literally just scrapped a ceiling and refinishing it. Is the process any different when you scrape the textured ceiling off? I assume it's the same, just a much thinner first coat.
I have a wall the previous owners used textured paint. Feels like sand on the wall. Thank goodness they didn’t do every wall. So far I’ve sanded w a harder grit sand paper. I’m thinking after I sand it down as good as possible, wipe it down (it’s a darker color and bleeds) really good then finish it with two light coats. Am I thinking correctly? I’m enjoying the videos! Keep me coming PLEASE!! LOL!
You make it look so easy! I'm on my 8th coat.
8th? Damn lol
id like to have a "talk" with whoever invented drywall texture, especially popcorn.....
A lot of people like it, I’m one of them, but it’s not for everybody, seems to be a lot of people wanting it gone now
It was invented by drywallers so we can skip our skimcoat and sanding 😄👍
I would also like to have a talk with these people who vandalize perfectly good walls/ceilings with what they think is "texture". What in God's name is this crap? It's SO hard to clean it up. :'(
@@FineBakedPastry yeah it is, and even harder to match the texture. i used to work for an hvac company doing mostly patches for new / eliminated / different sized ducts or acess holes cut in drywall or mistakes, and i would often have to patch and match various textures. a real nightmere to get it just right.
Contractors invented it as a way to speed up things by using the texture to cover up seams and imperfections. Lazy innovation as usual. That’s why expensive houses, even older ones, don’t have textured ceilings.
I have learned so much from you it’s unbelievable. I just finished a pretty major kitchen project and your videos made it possible. Thank you so much my friend.
Yep you're absolutley right about sanding. We sand between every coat and it makes every coat so much better. Nice and flat and no goobers in the spread when you put the next coat on.
You’re like the Bob Ross of drywall mud. Loved this video.
I got into mud and taping a month ago with no prior experience. Your videos have let me have let me go into it not completely blind.
It's sad when the high production videos on RUclips give out trash advise and then I come across this man who has all the answers I've been looking for.
This is a classic case of watching an artist at work and thinking it's just a simple DIY video.
He makes it look fun and easy but I have a feeling that my 2,000sqft 97yro house (especially the ceiling) is going to kick my ass
@@morganstone897 Im in the middle of removing texture in my 1700sqft house now, with 17ft ceilings in one room...its a pain in the ass and harder than he makes it look!
finger leaf 😹 I feel ya.
@@morganstone897 Has your ass been kicked yet? ;) Because, yea, you're right. I've done this many, many times. Learning to float takes a bit of "artistry", but the actual "thing" is simply ridiculous amounts of labor!
@@morganstone897 Oh wow. I shouldn’t complain about my little area I’m going to start prepping and painting then. I hope it comes out beautiful for you and if your unsure so many videos. This man seems to know what he’s doing. So I’m going to do it the way he did.
That right there is years of practice at it's best you make it look easier than putting butter on my toast!
Cool! Nice job
Your work is an art form. Truly beautiful.
I tried this and it was a complete disaster. After spreading about 40lbs of this shit the popcorn gave way. Scrap it or put up 8th in sheet rock.
@@MindBodySoulOk Lol, as an X pro, I have to laugh. ;) Sry, man. Of course you scrape popcorn first, but not orange peel.
Ben. You are... better than every other (carpenter) drywall finish pro on RUclips. Legitimately.
Plus... you skate.
You have single handedly (along with practice,) taught me this trade over the last 3 years.
I f*c*in' love you, man.
You giftedness in teaching is beautiful to watch!
What a lovely guy, I can just imagine him helping old ladies with heavy grocery bags, bet he even calls his mother every night to check she's ok.
I'm glad you said everyone has that guy that don't sand. My father in law and my cousins that are on my wife's mom's side all tape and texture. They call the sanding poll the "dummy stick" but when I sand I get a good finish, idk. I like the final product after sanding. I'm getting better tho to the point where I'm just scraping, mostly. We use knives and pans and break out the hawk for broquet and other stuff now and again. However, I appreciate the info with the hawk and trowel. Keep up the good work 💯👍
Another great instructional vid, right to the point with no frills. I learn a new little trick every time I watch you, and it increases my confidence in my work daily, so thank-you for all the effort you put in to your videos. 🙏
Great video! My dad is one of those "you shouldn't need to do much sanding guys. However my jobs come out great ! Thanks for the excellent video .
Craftsmanship at work. I love these videos. Including seeing blobs drop from the hawk on to your body! That is reality.
I scraped my first popcorn ceiling last year and skim coated it along with the walls in a bedroom. The finished product turned out great, but it was a lot of work. This video makes it look easy. In my experience, it is definitely a learned skill. Started in my kitchen and 2nd time around it's going much better. I resorted to using the "apply mud with a roller" approach. For me, it helps me get more even coats.
Great job, also remember a good quality high hiding primer is a good friend, I used to always get it to a primer finish. One other thing, when your shoulders start telling you to stop doing this type of work listen before its too late, I'm paying the price now after 40 +yrs doing this stuff. thanks for posting
Silly question, dav1099, but do you primer last (I'm assuming)?
Thanks for the instruction on your trade. I just did a few rooms in my basement. Around a 100 4x8 sheets. Best job on drywall I ever have done and butt joints are invisible thanks to you. The amount of sanding was a lot less. The mess was a lot less. Great videos.
Allen Burns I learned how to use the hawk and trowel after watching his videos and I was amazed at how much faster it ended up being. It took me a little while to learn it but once I did I was off to the races.
can you skim coat with the premixed drywall compoud?
Great video! Very informative and you explained the reasoning behind your technique which helps a lot and most people leave out; assuming beginners already know something. Thanks!
Love being able to get my DIY advice, and skate trick tips from one source 😄
AWESOME video! Thank you so much! I'm 52 and new to DIY. I have nearly anentire house to do this too. Feel pretty confident, now.
The best advice this guy gives is to leave the lines alone if you don’t have the skills and that they are normal to some extent. It helped me greatly not to be hard on myself. They come off with the scraper and light sanding very easily with the main areas near perfect.
We just had a taper do this on a remodel I’ve been working on, I love watching pro tapers work, that ceiling went from textured to perfectly flat
I found that skimming over orange peel texture is easier in the sense that the texture bites the mud, and the little bumps give me a reference of how thick I need to skim.
You're a great teacher and a master at your craft.
Thanks so much for all of your super helpful videos. Very much appreciated 👍👍👍
These videos you have made has been a great help, thanks for sharing with us.
I heard that scraping sound, and yeah, I have a washboard texture. I call it tiger-stripe texture and everybody thinks I'm a cool cat.
Not sure which I prefer, your skate videos or drywall videos - both are excellent!
Btw no idea how to send you a photo of a sticker I saw at the skatepark the other day but it made me think of you because it was a trowel/skateboard design. Some DIY park sticker.
Wher sk8 vids
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Omfg. Did not know VC was a skater. This is amazing, I now have hours of sk8 content to catch up on. Thanks dude!
Love your videos. I just had a quote for this -- C$13,000 for 3,200 square feet and another C$3,000 for painting it. I may just try this method in a walk-in closet or small room and see how desperate my wife is for me to cover the orange peel in the house.
Thank you for your guides, they were very helpful for me to do the job better.
10/10
So our house was built late 80s and we are getting ready to repaint, but there is texture on the walls and popcorn on the ceiling. My question is: would you wet and scrape the popcorn off or skim over it? If you scrape, do you have to skim anyways before painting it?
As far as the lighter texture on the walls... skim it or sand it?
And last, I promise: how do you estimate how much mud to get?
I appreciate your insight. Your videos are by far the best ones in this subject...
Your asmr comment was the best! probably the only asmr i’d listen to 😂drywall asmr.
27 haters?
Sounds like a good problem. You're getting out there.
I appreciate the video, small tips and hints. Thanks bud
Honestly, I was told I would need to do a process that was several more steps. Thank you!
Great vid vancouver carpenter 👍👍👍👍👍 you vids have been such a great help to me thanks a million man I really appreciate it 😃
Watched lots of your videos and other people’s - you’re the best.
P.S.
“I’m not that guy” either. I hate sanding but gotta do it.
Of all the videos there are on the “tube”, in my opinion you are the best!!
thanks after watching many videos i went for it praticed on a wall behind washer and dryer after couple coats i got the hang of it did intire kitchen and ceiling on to rest of home have 100 year old home with ten layers of paper and paint popcorn ceilings with mud on top of that lol! before its dry competly i take water bottle and spray walls and skim off water with trowel and gets wall like glass smooth it actually shines even! what a workout also shoulders and arms and neck
Wow! What a pleasure to watch a man so skilled in his work! And so informative! Thank you!
Doesnt matter how many times I see your videos and learn about working on the corners, I still have such a hard time with them. Currently, well, tomorrow will be the final coat of my ceiling and I'm def gonna get the corners right this time haha
Excellent technique.
You are the Bob Ross of drywall, who paints with drywall mud.
Needs more phthalo blue.
Your videos are top notch! Of course you started with the hard areas! 🙂 I could watch you work all day!😉
Thanks for the tip my friend! I'm repairing my ceiling and it didn't come out smooth. Your technique looks awesome. I'm gonna go for a second coat of mud and smooth her out , thanks again for the tutorial!
There’s something therapeutic about this vid. Really though, excellent advise, thank you.
Hello. I have just finished a job in a appartement where I had to desassemble some walls and re-use materials to build some in other place. So I had to flaten the painted drywall. Same technic as you and customers were so happy with my job.
this video helped reduce my blood pressure today
I did a whole house something like 4000 square feet of skim coat ceilings, and this is exactly how I did it. But man I under priced the job, and over worked my shoulder. U live n u learn
I don’t miss skimming ceilings not one bit, especially the sanding and the dust..lol
im renovating my house, dust from drywalling is what i hate most
Have you ever tried a vacuum-attached sanding screen? I have found them to work well attached to a dust deputy to my vacuum so my filter isn't plugged as quickly
I use a sanding screen attachment on my dry vacuum and it knocked down the dust by 90 percent! WOW! Filters are not cheap but beats cleaning the house!
I love sanding. Mmmmmmm, yummy gypsum...
this has become the ... learn as you go drywall channel
I am so glad you did this video! Moved in to a house where they did a crap job in the bathroom. Sheetrock is horrible, used mesh instead of tape in all the corners, and a very very light knockdown on walls and ceiling. I was just going to orange peel the crap out of it but now I am going to just mud it all first! 😊 Keep it up man.
Been watching your videos for a while now and it sure has helped me complete many projects, thank you ! Subscribed and liked !
Thank you Ben I have been watching your videos and learning quite a bit
Thank you for taking the time to show these videos on sheet rock and finishing sheet rock. I find them very helpful. Two days ago I did my first skim coat of a bathroom remodel using the paint roller technique. Worked pretty good still have some work to do though thanks again your videos are awesome
John Davis what’s the paint roller technique? Does he have a video called that?!
Love your videos. Still not certain i have the confidence to get rid of my popcorn ceiling. If there are cracks in the ceiling, do you recommend removing the texture on the crack, re-taping, then skimming? Or should i remove all of the texture and start fresh?
When I painted I remember we used to put a first coat on and the drywallers would come back and patch all the in-discrepancies. You make it look so easy.
Great job! You sir, are a strong man!
Your a great teacher! And yes, canned lights drove me nuts on my project as well :)
Thank you so much for showing the imperfections! My first skim coat and it was NOT perfect! So many lines and gouges. Doing my second coat tomorrow because i spent all day sanding and fixing my mess! Hoping the second coat will go smoother than the first. FYI my walls were horrific! Looked like someone just blew bubbles in the wall. Had to use a rasp to get the paint off. J hi going skim coating can make it smooth.
Thank you for your videos!
thank you for the extra drywall asmr i was worried there for a second
As I was skimming my 1980 popcorn ceiling flat, I noticed it's not level. There is bowing or cupping in places. Pillowing? It makes it so hard to skim even with a wide knife. I think it's because of humidity and they may have used 1/2" drywall not 5/8", house inspector didn't say anything about foundation problems. In some places it's up to a 1/2" gap, particularly where the wall meets the ceiling. Would you fill it? Or put up new drywall with furring strips? In my first 2 bedrooms I was able to fill it enough that you can't tell from the ground. But I don't think I'll get away with that in larger rooms. Your videos have helped me a lot, thx.
I would unscrew the light bulbs and push the sockets up in the housing with some crumpled up newspaper...then you don't have to swerve around the bulbs...just skim across.
Nice work, Van Carp.
You make look so easy.. I'm going to try this process on my bathroom ceiling since it's smaller and see how it works. Hopefully I'll have the patience to get this done.. Thanks for the info..
Man 71k suscribers 😯 Best skater/tradesman pn youtube hands down 🙅🏻♂️
He's exactly double that now!
Thank you! This was a really helpful video. Gave me the confidence to try and I’m super pleased with the results!
Thanks Ben, I needed this one, I've screwed 1/2" drywall for ceilings on and taped, it is a lot of work too. I'm going to use this method on my next place. I really needed that tip about the 1st coat not touching the tips of the texture, many thanks. This method saves the mess of spraying water and peeling off the popcorn imo.
Thank you for this video. Great job and great tutorial!!
Awesome work,I will be doing this on Friday so thanks for advice 👌
That looks like a stipple ceiling. its applied with a pneumatic stipple gun with a hopper for the compound. (by commercial installers) it can be applied with a roller. but not ussually with the texture you showed in this video.
the easiest way to smooth out a stipple ceiling is to wet it with water (landscape spray gun works very well) then scrape the stipple of with a scraper. a sidewalk ice scraper with a 5' hand can be used from the ground. ladder work with a hand scraper for the corners.
then apply mud to the ceiling to get a smooth finish.
Alan Bain yes but either way you have to put mud. This pretty much is less work. If it were me i would only do one coat. Smooth with damp sponge and then paint.
The problem with my bathroom ceiling is that they painted it so I cannot remove the stippling easily or at all.
@@ds61821 You might dry scouring the painted texture with a utility knife just enough to cut through the paint then spray with water and scrape.
@@rickeykeeton4770 That's a good thought. I had given up thinking about using water because of the paint. I tried to use my sander with 80 grit paper and it got me to the drywall but at the price of a lot of dust. So I postponed that part of the project. I'll give your idea a try. Thanks.
Dude! Secrets....your killing me, this is what I do all day great work
You are a God. My first coat definitely didn't turn out that nice. I guess I'll just have to be really good at sanding!
Sooooo.... This is like the leveling of floors, but for the ceiling? And instead of scraping or sanding off the texture, we're using the 3 coats of dry wall compound to smoothen out the ceiling?
Is one method preferred over another, esp for the longevity of the subsequently painted ceiling?
Question - How do I skim coat over a skip trowel texture? I've sanded and sanded and mudded and mudded and the "veins" of the old texture keep showing up when I skim coat. I used thicker mud and watery mud, I've done your roller method and applied gobs with a knife and pan. I little advice would be nice. Thanks.
Thank you so much for this video. I’m getting ready to paint and the ceiling is truly horrible. Plus it has cracks in it. So this will work perfectly! ❤️
Hope to see more of your videos for help with other areas of painting. Never knew it was a headache just finding right colors to match and be happy with. Never mind not even started the “ Fun Part” of prepping and painting.
I just finished doing this in my bathroom. It was unpainted stomp so I was able to sand it a bit before coating. Took me 4 coats to cover...and was also a terrible time to try to learn hawk and trowel! I also found it very helpful to do my finish passes 90 degrees from the previous coat's finish pass. It seemed to fill in low spots nicely. Any thoughts on that technique? Thanks for the tips Ben, great information as always!
Well done such a good job mate and so well explained love it I’ve got to small ceilings to do in my hall and stairs I’m going to give them my best shot cheers buddy larrysullivan in London
Thank you! Great video. You make this look easy. I know I will struggle hehe
I have done stucco and drywall but I only use the hawk and trowel for plaster and masonry. Very smart. I never even brought it to the job on drywall. I will now. I think I could try it and see if I like my knife better but it seems like it would be way less stressful on your fingers and wrist your way.
Sometimes it just needs to be someone who will say "I also have liftoffs and bubbles and mud dropping down on me, and you know - that's ok because everybody is having that" to disarm your inner shame triggers and let you just work freely. So this video will massively change my approach how to make smooth surfaces with gypsum or polymer coatings. Thank you so much!
Still, once I had to work with a silicate mud, because the wall was suspectible to mould. After drying, that mud became a like a stone, no chance to sand it at all. Also, cannot put some easier coating under the final layer - the whole cake from the wall concrete to the final layer had to be anti-mould, in this case something silicate. How would you approach this challenge?
Two questions.
1st what's your thoughts on ready mixed skimming coat.
2nd why didn't you just disconnect the lights. Push the wires up into the ceiling.
Would have made it a lot easier than skimming around them.
Here I am again, you make this look easy. No fair, I’ve got to do the living room this time, and I’m not excited about it. lol 😂
Some of these popcorn ceilings had asbestos in them. Be careful when removing or working on them.
Thank you for the videos, they have really helped me improve my work; God bless.
One guy rolling it on, another wiping it smooth. Porter Cable drywall sander. In between coats and when done. Prime, check, touch up imperfections. Piece of cake.
great video, appreciate you putting them together. i did our ceiling a month or so ago and ran into a lot of said problems hah. but the next time! i'll be ready. thanks!
I love you videos they are so practical and easy to follow! I just wonder if I need to wipe it down if I sand it in between?
Really enjoyed your video. Thanks for all the info. Quick question. Is it okay to use CGC Redi Filler Compound for this kind of job? It says it is good for adhering to hard surfaces etc... but I read online in one thread that it may not dry as well as all purpose Dry Wall Compound. Thanks in advance for your help.
For textured ceilings, will you almost always just skim over it? Or will you ever scrape off the texture first before touching up and then priming/paining? What's your general preference?
In the UK plasterers would skim that and trowel finish it, no sanding and it would be all done in a couple of hours. The mud you are using there, Is that prone to cracking? The way you handle a trowel I'm sure to take to gypsum plastering easily.
This. I just don't get what these foreign lads do, it's so much more work. Like you say, 2 coats and a polish, job done. Bollocks to sanding the day after.
This video is SO on point. I'm really debating if I should try to add a second gypsum to hide the popcorn texture, or to skim coat the hole thing. I don't do this for a living, but i'm manual-ish to work around the house. What would you recommand ? Finding the trusts could be a pain installing those gypsum panels, but having a nice clean flat suface seems like rough and toff for beguiners...
Looks beautiful!
Great video! We asked a painter to remove or skim cost our painted texture ceiling. He said he stopped doing the skim coat several years ago,because the skim coat only last a few years . He suggested us to put a blue board to cover it. Can you comment on this?
Fantastic video. What kind of muds are you using?
Man you make it look so easy!
Awesome job mate!
Is this process faster than wetting the popcorn and scraping it off then fixing imperfections and priming? Seems like 2 coats 2 sanding is about the same as scraping fixing and priming. Curious which you think is faster. I have a huge number of square footage I’d like to get rid of but I think my shoulders could not do it all.
This.... THIS!! I literally just scrapped a ceiling and refinishing it.
Is the process any different when you scrape the textured ceiling off? I assume it's the same, just a much thinner first coat.
My new mobile home has the texture ceiling. I’m going to either scrape later or do it your way.
I have a wall the previous owners used textured paint. Feels like sand on the wall. Thank goodness they didn’t do every wall. So far I’ve sanded w a harder grit sand paper. I’m thinking after I sand it down as good as possible, wipe it down (it’s a darker color and bleeds) really good then finish it with two light coats. Am I thinking correctly?
I’m enjoying the videos! Keep me coming PLEASE!! LOL!