How To Wood Plank A Popcorn Ceiling

This meant that once the planks were nailed up we were done.

How to wood plank a popcorn ceiling.

Before we started the ceiling ed cut all the plywood into 8 planks. It s still covered in popcorn but since we re doing the planks we didn t see any point in scraping it all off we ll just find the ceiling joists with a stud finder mark them with chalk lines and nail gun them into the joists. You want to make sure that your planks run perpendicular to the joists in the popcorn ceiling. You do not want it soaked but somewhere between a light spray and dripping.

He made a sled shown below to speed up the process. Take your first piece of wood and make sure to apply your adhesive to the backside of the board from there set the board in place and line it up across the joists. Between each row we used a nickel for a spacer. If it is just the popcorn then the removal consists of spraying the ceiling with water i used a 1 gallon garden sprayer with water from our sink and scraping.

As long as the ceiling is wet there will be no dust. We got 6 planks out of each sheet of plywood. 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. The wetter it is the easier it is to come off.

And for a little extra security we ll squirt some liquid nails on the back side of each plank too. Then i gave one side of each plank 2 coats of paint. This created just a small line between the planks to make them more visible yet not allow any of the popcorn texture to show through.