Over the weekend Ed and I completed placing the ultimate touches on the final out of doors restore that was wanted after the tree crashed onto the home and right into a visitor room throughout Hurricane Helene again in September.
For many of the repairs we employed contractors to do each inside and out of doors work that wanted to be performed.
A lot of the contractors confirmed up once they stated they’d, however not the ceiling restore contractor who eliminated the popcorn and redid the visitor room and kitchen ceilings that had been broken.
We eliminated the popcorn ceiling in what’s now the multi-purpose room ourselves because it wasn’t broken and lined by insurance coverage.
In the lounge the contractors had been scheduled to do the ceiling proper after Christmas. We now have emailed, known as all of them by way of January and into February, however we by no means heard again.
They even left provides within the storage, so it felt like they’d be coming again after doing the visitor room and kitchen, however we determine they simply didn’t need the job anymore and have ghosted us.
We didn’t lose any cash as we paid them after every room was accomplished. So what did we do?
We eliminated the popcorn on the lounge ceiling ourselves with the most effective two contractors ever – my husband, Ed and my brother-in-law Dave who’s retired now, however was an expert painter. I known as them “B-B-I-L Contractors” – brief for best-brothers-in-laws dwelling enchancment providers. 🙂
That they had the job performed rapidly! Prep work, elimination, spackling and primer/paint.
Eradicating the Popcorn Ceiling
Eradicating a popcorn ceiling may be very cheap and never laborious to do, however this can be very messy!!! All the pieces must be faraway from the room together with ceiling fixtures and lights.
Probably the most time consuming half is the prep work of masking the ground and partitions with plastic sheeting. Doing it will maintain the moist slop/sludge of the textured popcorn when it’s scraped and falls off contained on the plastic sheeting. With all of the moist slop on the plastic sheeting, clean-up is straightforward.
Popcorn ceilings, in pre-Nineteen Seventies typically contained white asbestos fibers. If your own home was constructed earlier than this time, you will get a take a look at package on-line and have it examined.
I did this again in 2017 once I eliminated the popcorn on the ceiling once I remodeled the second flooring lavatory. The take a look at got here again damaging and I had the popcorn eliminated the subsequent day.
5 years in the past we lined the popcorn ceilings within the two visitor rooms with Armstrong Woodhaven white planks. Certainly one of theses rooms not has it after the tree got here in, now it has a clean sheetrock ceiling.
To take away the popcorn ceiling, we needed to first totally saturate the floor with water utilizing a pump spray bottle and permit it to soak in for a couple of minutes. This encapsulates the popcorn materials and permits for mud free scraping.
Then used a large drywall scraper section-by-section to scrape off the moist popcorn texture and watch it fall to the lined flooring.
As soon as the popcorn texture is gone, we cleaned the ceiling with heat water and rags and let dry in a single day. Subsequent we spackled a number of uneven areas and sanded till clean. Then a coat of primer and two coats of Sherwin Williams Ceiling Paint within the shade Pure White – 7005.
Earlier than the popcorn elimination, the ceilings had been white, however I didn’t notice simply how dingy they had been. It wasn’t till the popcorn was eliminated that I noticed simply how a lot the ceilings affected the sunshine within the rooms the place the popcorn was eliminated..
Now the ceilings are clear, clean and make the rooms look a lot more energizing and brighter.
Placing the Residing Room Again Collectively
Now it’s time for the enjoyable half. I put the furnishings again into the room, however will depart it as is till I’m prepared to present the room a spring refresh that has a manner of loosening what’s been stagnant within the room.
The primary merchandise on the room refresh checklist is updating the household images I’ve within the gallery wall between the kitchen and front room.
I eliminated all of the frames so the wall is empty now which in a manner is sweet to see because it offers the wall and my eye a relaxation for some time. Once I put the gallery again up it is going to have a brand new freshness and power simply in time for spring.
Now I’m simply having fun with the brand new clean white ceilings and the way blissful they’re making me. 🙂
