How To Wood Plank A Popcorn Ceiling

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.

How to wood plank a popcorn ceiling.

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. Before we started the ceiling ed cut all the plywood into 8 planks. Between each row we used a nickel for a spacer. The wetter it is the easier it is to come off.

We used a bostitch air compressor and nail gun and 1 and 3 8 inch 18 gauge nails to nail the plywood planks into the ceiling. You want to make sure that your planks run perpendicular to the joists in the popcorn ceiling. And for a little extra security we ll squirt some liquid nails on the back side of each plank too. It made for a very speedy job.

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. Then i gave one side of each plank 2 coats of paint. As long as the ceiling is wet there will be no dust. 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.

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. 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.