Cover Popcorn Ceiling With Plywood

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Cover popcorn ceiling with plywood.

Popcorn ceiling if you have a heavily textured ceiling and just don t like the look you have a few options. Between each row we used a nickel for a spacer. Thin plywood for ceiling planks. When we built our house in the 80 s of course that s what went on the ceilings.

Who in the world thought popcorn ceilings were a good idea. Determine where you would like trim lines to go to cover any gaps between boards. Compare wood and vinyl options and choose the one that best suits your budget and diy aspirations. One of our favorite ideas for this material is covering popcorn ceiling with beadboard.

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 the rest of your ceiling. I used six 4 8 sheets for this project. 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.

By using armstrong ceilings easy up system to install ceiling planks you avoid sanding and scraping by affixing tracks directly onto. You ll need to make a few cuts as you go to ensure a proper fit all around and of course staggering your boards. With unpainted texture the most common approach is to mist it with a spray bottle and scrape off the softened texture. Receiving my new maytag appliances spurred and inspired a lot of home improvement projects including this cover up the ugly popcorn plank ceiling project.

Covering up a popcorn ceiling is a great alternative to removing it by hand. Instructions measure your ceiling and determine how much beadboard you need. 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. I decided to use thin plywood known as underlayment for my ceiling planks.

Fortunately in most cases it s not necessary because you can easily cover up that unsightly texture with ceiling panels or planks. Most options easily install directly over your existing popcorn ceiling using the easy up track and clip installation system. Years later we painted the ceiling in the kitchen. It made for a very speedy job.

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. Hold beadboard in place. I think it was a lazy way of covering up the ceilings back then. Rip wood on the table saw.

Remember you need all the stripes to go the same way. Brad nail into the ceiling. The next morning we awoke to large sheets of popcorn ceiling on the floor. Covering a popcorn ceiling with drywall.

Beadboard panels are an efficient economical way to get that popular tongue and groove porchy look to cover up an unattractive ceiling. Removing a popcorn ceiling is a messy time consuming job.