This weekend, and the past 3 weekends in general have been hellacious around the Mixon house. We have been working tirelessly to remove our awful popcorn ceilings. It is a messy and difficult job but to save about a dollar per square foot we have decided to remove it ourselves (that about $1,700 for those of you who think we are nuts). We also took off all of the wallpaper our selves which was even harder than the ceilings.
In case anyone out there is curious here is how you remove popcorn ceilings:
1. Fill a fine sprayer with a solution of 1 gallon water and 2 cups vinegar. (oh yeah my house reeks on vinegar now)
2. Spray the ceilings in 3x3 sections until soaking wet (but not too wet, so that you don't ruin the drywall).
3. Use a ceiling scraper or putty knife to scrape off the texture, reveling clean dry wall underneath.
4. Snap at your husband numerous times throughout the process and swear over and over again that the next house you buy will be brand new.
This is by far the messiest thing I have ever done, we have swept and mopped about 10 times and we have yet to rid our house of the dust. All in all it took us 3 weekends to do our entire house. I want to kill myself...but it was worth it because all we have to do now is sit back and let the contractor do his thing (re-texture the ceilings to a smooth finish) The contractor starts Wednesday and we are leaving for the week to go to Philly so hopefully we will be coming back to a whole new house!
Here are some pictures of the process:
Living Room Before
Holy Mess!
Matt working away
Glamorous right?I will post more pictures later, they are too shocking to keep all to myself ;)
Look at you ALL messy! You are a darn good wife
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