Repair Popcorn Ceiling After Leak

In this video i show you how to repair popcorn without scraping all of the texture off of the ceiling.

Repair popcorn ceiling after leak.

The first thing a professional texture repairman does is decide what type of texture your ceiling has. Orchard hardware had this can like a hairspray can. The popcorn texture stucco cottage cheese material in the water damaged area does not look the same as the rest of the ceiling. Sometimes the ceiling texture will become saturated and start to flake off.

We ll show you how to repair small damaged areas of typical popcorn ceiling texture. Water damage repair on textured ceiling a step by step guide. Ceiling covering buying guide. Test a small area in a corner to see if your ceiling is painted or not.

Painted texture will not come off easily normal texture will. Spraying popcorn texture with a hopper is messy and labor intensive. Spray water in the area and scrape. Since ceiling was white i did not even have to paint.

The process involves low cost items available at any home improvement store. But for a repair kilz has a spray for popcorn ceiling repair. Repairing a peeling popcorn ceiling involves removal of the damaged portions and reapplying a new coat of texture. It s easy when you use a special texture patch now available in an aerosol spray can.

When water leaks onto a drywall ceiling ugly coffee colored stains usually appear. When you re patching a popcorn ceiling don t spray on the texture. Don t break out the compressor to do a little spot repair work on your popcorn ceiling. There are really only 2 types of texture that we commonly see in vancouver and there are variations of these two types.

Now i need to fix the area to blend in with the rest of the ceiling. How to spot repair a popcorn ceiling. Painted popcorn ceilings are hard to remove. You will have far less control and the patch may look like little more than a shoddy repair.

If you fail to do so you ll end up with far too much texture on the surrounding areas which will also make the patched area of the popcorn ceiling stand out. I took it home sprayed it and easy peasy looked great. When we had a water leak once repaired i had to contend with the ceiling repair.