Repair Popcorn Ceiling After Leak

How to patch and repair drywall.

Repair popcorn ceiling after leak.

Don t break out the compressor to do a little spot repair work on your popcorn ceiling. Sometimes the ceiling texture will become saturated and start to flake off. The process involves low cost items available at any home improvement store. 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.

Spraying popcorn texture with a hopper is messy and labor intensive. We ll show you how to repair small damaged areas of typical popcorn ceiling texture. It s easy when you use a special texture patch now available in an aerosol spray can. In this video i show you how to repair popcorn without scraping all of the texture off of the ceiling.

Ceiling covering buying guide. Painted popcorn ceilings are hard to remove. There are really only 2 types of texture that we commonly see in vancouver and there are variations of these two types. When you re patching a popcorn ceiling don t spray on the texture.

Repairing a peeling popcorn ceiling involves removal of the damaged portions and reapplying a new coat of texture. The first thing a professional texture repairman does is decide what type of texture your ceiling has. Spray water in the area and scrape. 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. Since ceiling was white i did not even have to paint. You will have far less control and the patch may look like little more than a shoddy repair. 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.

How to spot repair a popcorn ceiling. Orchard hardware had this can like a hairspray can. But for a repair kilz has a spray for popcorn ceiling repair. Painted texture will not come off easily normal texture will.

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. When water leaks onto a drywall ceiling ugly coffee colored stains usually appear. Test a small area in a corner to see if your ceiling is painted or not.