Paint Your Popcorn Ceiling (With THIS Tool)

today i'm going to be showing you guys how to paint your textured ceilings and there's two different conditions for textured ceilings whether it's been painted before or not both cases there's similar procedures and i've got a trick i'm going to show you right now whenever you're dealing with textured sealing the corners are really difficult because if you're going to paint the ceiling inevitably you have to paint the wall it's just no way to get around that right so take your finger and just clean any texture out of that edge and what i'm going to suggest grab some of this fast dry caulking it's 20 minutes put it in your gun and then just put a really thin bead right into that corner i'll tell you why you wipe that in now i've got an edge that's smooth and clean so when i'm done painting my ceiling i've got somewhere that i can bring my wall paint to that's a nice clean straight edge and i can cut a straight line if i don't do that then everywhere where there's texture caught in all the corners your brush is going to be bouncing off of it and your line always looks like junk this is the system and if you have a pre-painted ceiling you just grab a putty knife and you can just run it up against the wall like that and scratch out any the extra texture that's in the way okay then you can use the caulking now let's get on to painting because we're going to show you some tips and tricks today so that if you don't have a painted ceiling there are a lot of people that like to use a roller technique and it flattens out on the ceiling so i'm going to demonstrate how not to do it and then i'm going to show you the right tools so that you can do it properly get a great result so i know it's a textured ceiling and it's if you check this it comes off pretty easily right so you want to be careful get your pin on your brush we're going to use a very flat sealing paint with no acrylic and that is actually for two reasons one if you don't use any acrylic and you want to remove it at a later date you still can it's still possible okay if you use any acrylic in the paint you're in trouble you're going to have to belt sand it off it's a brand new world but you're going to want to paint this surface here last inch and that's about it okay just want to get rid of any previous wall color that might be riding a little bit too high and then we're going to use our roller right up to about a half an inch from the edge of the ceiling to finish our look but that's the technique don't go crazy or you'll just end up wiping all this stipple off and you'll have a flat section just go up against that caulking line and you're just a couple of passes and that's it so this is the setup i've got a cage i've got a regular roller this is a microfiber 15 millimeter or half inch roller if you're down in the states i've got it on my extension pole and now i'm just going to load up the roller can take a few minutes okay you want to keep going until you don't see any of the color on that microfiber showing through that's how you know the paint is all the way into the back of the bristle all right now i'm loaded up let's show you what other everybody else does out there they'll go up here like this and they'll just start painting oh that looks nice doesn't it okay and they go wow that really soaks up a lot of paint all right and it does this medium texture really soaks up a lot of paint so they'll come over here they'll do another row right next to it oh and then wow i'm already out of paint and we'll do one more row and then you'll see why this is the wrong way to go about this all right where i'm standing i've got two distinct lines here that are flattened out with the texture i remember i did a project for somebody and i painted their stipple ceiling i was young years and years ago and i did the same roller technique a few months later i got a call and it was in february the sun's low in the sky and it was coming through the windows and you could see all the lines from where i rolled it okay and they were really quite upset because it looked horrible for about two or three months a year this is where we learn trust me on this if you've had this experience get in the comments section let me know what i'm going to show you right now is the solution it's the proper technique and the proper roller so you don't get this problem because if you are out there and you're trying to make a living and you're painting people's ceilings like this and you get that call back the only solution now is to take the stipple off and respray the ceiling that hurts okay let's get on with it it's what we're going to use for this and it works for any kind of texture whether it's stipple or stalactite it works great it's called a split foam roller now these are actually on the shelf for your local home deployment or lowe's probably every other building center because a long time ago somebody figured out that if they just take a foam roller and they slice it right into about 30 different rows then as the texture goes by it can shape itself around the texture and won't pick it up and take it off the ceiling and it won't put all that pressure that goes through the cage to this corner and won't translate it through the stipple all right now we're gonna load this one up and a quick word of warning this actually is a lot messier it tends to spray around so extend your stick and try to stay out of the way because it's foam you don't want to use much pressure at all okay because as soon as you start using pressure then the roller starts to drip there we go there we are nice and gentle and you'll see like all those little mini streaks that's actually excess paint what ends up happening is the drywall and the stipple will soak it all up as it's drying there we go now we're going to do one more pass and i'm going to show you how well it covers that yellow from the bin zinzer okay here we are nice and gentle and the yellow is now gone and if you missed it we did a video we showed you how to do repair on this texture so we use a stain sealer from benzenser on the yellow marks on the ceiling there which creates a yellow mark but at least it seals up and covers all the rest and we also did a patch and repair we're going to paint that right now it should be dry this area here is actually was a great big square in the ceiling that was cut away and patched and then we rolled on a texture and tried to blend it into the rest of the ceiling we're gonna see how invisible that is after painting and be careful with these roll this the foam roller don't push too hard that makes a mess nice gentle pressure because if you push too hard look at that mark is going to stay in the ceiling and just flatten out the space and there you have it that actually worked out pretty good so if you need to see the techniques for how to fix your ceiling before you paint it then you can check out the video over here don't forget to like this video subscribe to the channel for quick tutorials on how to solve your everyday life problems we'll see in another video soon cheers

Channel: Home RenoVision DIY

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Keywords: homerenovision, renovision, jeff thorman, homerenovisiondiy, texture ceiling, stipple ceiling, popcorn ceiling, is popcorn ceiling bad, popcorn ceiling patch, cottage cheese ceilings, do it yourself, basement remodel ideas, budget bathroom remodel, popcorn ceiling repair, painting popcorn ceiling, how to paint my ceiling, how to paint popcorn ceiling, how to paint, homerenovision popcorn ceiling, ceiling paint, painting my ceiling, paint stipple ceiling, paint texture ceiling

Id: V_LIMe8jQEo

Length: 7min 42sec (462 seconds)

Published: Tue Nov 08 2022