Don't scrape your painted popcorn ceiling. SKIM COAT IT!!!

welcome back to the channel in today's video I'm gonna show you how to skim coat a painted popcorn ceiling you probably already know that these are one of the most difficult popcorn ceilings to remove if they've been painted so I'm gonna show you my tips and tricks of getting rid of a popcorn ceiling and turning it into a masterpiece and if you missed part 1 of the skin coding series I showed you how to exactly mix the joint compound to skim coat over a popcorn texture and I also showed you all the tools needed to mix and skim coat and if you stick around to the end of the video I'll give you a sneak peek of part 3 where I do the second round of skim coating be sure to hit that subscribe button and also the bail notification let's get into this video I'm using a 14 inch drywall taping knife and a 16 inch drywall mud pan for the skim coat project okay so this is an older or painted popcorn ceiling so it basically will not scrape off there's no other options but to either skim coat or put new drywall over the top or demo the ceiling and hang new drywall so the customer opted for me just to skim coat this popcorn ceiling and then do a skip trial texture when it's all done so that's all going to be later in the series so stay tuned for all that basically I'm getting the joint compound up on the ceiling I'm gonna smooth it all out but you can see I'm placing the mud on one side of the knife or the other that way I'm not piling it up and also I'm not making a mess it controls where I put the mud and you want to keep your joint compound a little thicker than you would if you were skim coating a smooth surface so I barely add any water when I'm mixing up the joint compound to skim coat over a painted popcorn ceiling or any type of heavy texture you want to keep the thickness of the joint compound as it comes out of the bucket basically just thin out any bubbles or make it nice and creamy so again I'm just wiping it down after I got the mud up I'm putting pressure on the right side of the knife and just lifting the left side so I don't leave a line and you can see these chatter marks are those little ridges I'm going to smooth those out again I'm gonna go to the opposite direction as I'm doing right now I'm gonna apply a little more joint compound though so this is gonna be a really good base coat I get a lot of questions on why I use the all-purpose joint compound for skim coating and the reason is there's a lot more glue in it and so it's a lot stronger and the adhesion is a lot better to me the light weight mud is just a little too soft not as strong so here I'm going again in the opposite direction which is gonna take most of these ridges away and again this is the first coat I'm gonna do a whole nother round of skim coating so doesn't have to be perfect but you don't want to make a mess or have big piles of mud anywhere you want to keep it consistent now between coats I do not sand I'll take my six inch drywall taping knife and just kind of scrape any high areas or ridges before I do my second round of skim coating as you can see it turns out pretty smooth just on the first coat and you might be able to get away with it since we're doing a skip trial texture but I always like to do to skim coats it just comes out a lot better the good thing about it is if you're doing it like a skip trial texture you do not have to sand the ceiling if you kept your coats tight maybe a little scraping on some ridges and I do have a video that I'm going to be putting out of this project where I did exactly that just great between the skin coats and when you're pulling you want to keep the side of the knife that's going over the popcorn kind of raised well you're gonna get some heavy chatter marks or ridges this will take I give it 24 hours to dry it'll probably dry a little sooner but 24 hours for drying time is a good rule of thumb all right so here's what the ceiling looks like after that little bit of skim coat all right got that popcorn ceiling skin coated you and coming up in part 3 of this video series I'm gonna show you how I do the second round of skim coating and I'll also show you how I don't have to sand in between coats simply by using my six inch knife and scraping any ridges or high spots again there's the placement the left side is just floating over trying to not believe it over it also coming up in this video series I'll show you all the finer points of skip trowel texturing after the second skim coat dries the skip trowel to do this twelve by twelve sealing that I skim coated it was a popcorn ceiling probably about a cup got my fourteen inch knife scooper if you watch this whole video leave a hashtag drywall tube in the comments that way I know who's watching these videos and if you want to step up your drywall texturing or painting game be sure to hit that round icon in the middle of screen now to keep up with all my latest videos if you've got a friend that's a contractor or DIY er be sure to share 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Channel: Paul Peck DrywallTube

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Length: 7min 10sec (430 seconds)

Published: Fri Jan 04 2019