Repair Popcorn Ceiling After Leak

When you re patching a popcorn ceiling don t spray on the texture.

Repair popcorn ceiling after leak.

How to spot repair a popcorn ceiling. Spraying popcorn texture with a hopper is messy and labor intensive. Painted popcorn ceilings are hard to remove. Orchard hardware had this can like a hairspray can.

In this video i show you how to repair popcorn without scraping all of the texture off of the ceiling. We ll show you how to repair small damaged areas of typical popcorn ceiling texture. Now i need to fix the area to blend in with the rest of the ceiling. The popcorn texture stucco cottage cheese material in the water damaged area does not look the same as the rest of the ceiling.

Water damage repair on textured ceiling a step by step guide. You will have far less control and the patch may look like little more than a shoddy repair. Spray water in the area and scrape. The first thing a professional texture repairman does is decide what type of texture your ceiling has.

I have a popcorn ceiling and there is a dark water stain in the center i have found the source of the water leak and it has been fixed. Don t break out the compressor to do a little spot repair work on your popcorn ceiling. When water leaks onto a drywall ceiling ugly coffee colored stains usually appear. If you fail to do so you ll end up with far too much texture on the surrounding areas which will also make the patched area of the popcorn ceiling stand out.

Painted texture will not come off easily normal texture will. But for a repair kilz has a spray for popcorn ceiling repair. Because the texture is applied over the existing dry wall on the ceiling it can peel off over time due to moisture impact damage or simply old age. Since ceiling was white i did not even have to paint.

Ceiling covering buying guide. When we had a water leak once repaired i had to contend with the ceiling repair. Test a small area in a corner to see if your ceiling is painted or not. Sometimes the ceiling texture will become saturated and start to flake off.

Repairing a peeling popcorn ceiling involves removal of the damaged portions and reapplying a new coat of texture. It s easy when you use a special texture patch now available in an aerosol spray can. I took it home sprayed it and easy peasy looked great.