How To Paint A Textured Ceiling

72chevy4x4

I am looking at a job where the textured ceiling needs repaired. How do you go about painting a textured ceiling? The texture if very course-I think they call is a 'popcorn' ceiling (??).

Danahy

I cut and roll using oil, others spray... What's the repair portion of this paint job?

thom

I've rolled and sprayed. If you roll, you can only roll one way and will spend a lot of time cleaning your roller. If you spray you must mask and tarp everything, even the cat.

Richard

you first need to run your finger across the surface to see if anything comes off. If a bit of white paint comes off, this means the surface was never primed after applied, which is very common.

If so, you'll need to prime with an oil primer to avoid the texture reactivating with a waterbase and rolling right off.

If nothing comes off on your finger, you can use a latex primer(since you're doing repairs which will need to be primed) and then put a topcoat of ceiling paint

If you need to blend the popcorn, they sell buckets or spray cans of popcorn. I like the cans personally, they come out wicked fast though, so beware.

Good luck

vwovw

what he said and yes it comes out WICKED FAST. one of my new subs who had never used a can of spray. spent about two hours cleaning up some ladies dirty kitchen. For free

PlainPainter

I'd use one of those one step primer/ceiling paints for calcimine ceilings. IT's an oil - and yet you don't have to worry about recoating it with a vinyl ceiling paint - one step product.

-plainpainter