Covering Popcorn Ceiling With Wood Planks

Learn how to plank a popcorn ceiling the easy way with planked plywood.

Covering popcorn ceiling with wood planks.

Thin plywood for ceiling planks. This is the old school option. If you like it share it. I decided to use thin plywood known as underlayment for my ceiling planks.

For now you ll have to be appeased by this gorgeous ceiling in all it s non popcorn glory. Rip wood on the table saw. Covering a popcorn ceiling with tongue and groove paneling. It may be my new favorite transformational project.

Learn how to plank a popcorn ceiling the easy way with this planked ceiling tutorial. But as of today the goods can be put back in place so there s a final post coming. As long as the ceiling is wet there will be no dust. Cover your floor and spray a small section of the ceiling let sit for a minute or so and while holding the mud tray under the scraper start scrapping letting the plaster fall into the tray.

I used six 4 8 sheets for this project. Scraping the popcorn ceiling is not that hard of a job all you need is a spray bottle with water a 6 inch scraper and a cheap drywall mud pan. Covering popcorn ceilings with planks yo. If the old ceiling is reliably flat you can install the paneling right over the old drywall.

Removing these eyesores is a messy job that takes a lot of time. Covering the ceiling with traditional tongue and groove wood planks or beadboard paneling that you can buy through any quality lumber supplier. Receiving my new maytag appliances spurred and inspired a lot of home improvement projects including this cover up the ugly popcorn plank ceiling project. Textured or popcorn ceilings predate the 1970s and like lots of things from that era are out of style for homeowners and home buyers.