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Yikes! I've got cottage cheese ceilings and I hate them. I also want to paint the entire interior. The ceilings go up to 16' at one end of the largest room in the house so it's not easy to work on. My question is this:
Can I cover my cottage cheese ceilings with a paste/mud/goo or whatever you call it with a mixture of Fix-all, water-based latex paint and maybe some white school glue thrown in just for extra sticking power and apply it rather thinly with a trowel in maybe roughly 8' x 8' sections per batch? I would like to avoid having to remove the cottage cheese, then re-texture, then paint, so I'm wondering if I could just do it all in one step.
I thought about just dampening the cottage cheese and then squishing it flatter and smoother so that it would look more like ordinary texturing, but in half the house the ceiling has been painted and I don't think the water would soften it enough to do this. Also, if I get it too wet I think it will just fall off here and there in clumps so it will be hard to get uniformity without having to do a lot of filling in with texture that would have to look the same. I think it would be a mess, and I'd still have to paint it.
I just want to get this done and have it look nice so I can sell this place. I don't want to reinvent the wheel or make this anymore labor-intensive than it has to be.
Any help would be appreciated, and I thank you in advance for your advice. Will my proposed mixture work? Will it stick? Will it shrink?
Regards
Can I cover my cottage cheese ceilings with a paste/mud/goo or whatever you call it with a mixture of Fix-all, water-based latex paint and maybe some white school glue thrown in just for extra sticking power and apply it rather thinly with a trowel in maybe roughly 8' x 8' sections per batch? I would like to avoid having to remove the cottage cheese, then re-texture, then paint, so I'm wondering if I could just do it all in one step.
I thought about just dampening the cottage cheese and then squishing it flatter and smoother so that it would look more like ordinary texturing, but in half the house the ceiling has been painted and I don't think the water would soften it enough to do this. Also, if I get it too wet I think it will just fall off here and there in clumps so it will be hard to get uniformity without having to do a lot of filling in with texture that would have to look the same. I think it would be a mess, and I'd still have to paint it.
I just want to get this done and have it look nice so I can sell this place. I don't want to reinvent the wheel or make this anymore labor-intensive than it has to be.
Any help would be appreciated, and I thank you in advance for your advice. Will my proposed mixture work? Will it stick? Will it shrink?
Regards