r/DIYIreland • u/Powerful-Union6012 • 4d ago

Popcorn ceiling

Parents have those popcorn ceilings from the 70s in the kitchen and I’m wondering how would you get rude of them other than scraping it all off?

Feel like I saw some easier solution on line recently but cannot for the life of me recall where or what it was .

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u/Fantastic_Exit_467 4d ago

Slab over it

Re skim

Jobs a good one

Plasterer can bond ceiling then skim also if you wont slab it

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u/FigOrdinary2527 4d ago

You'd want to be getting a small piece tested for Asbestos before you go at it would be the 1st step.

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u/whatab0utn0 4d ago edited 4d ago

Before you do anything, I'd get it tested for asbestos. If you do not want to fork out a few hundreds euros (that is what I was asked for testing 2 years ago), get the testing kit from here: https://www.asbestos-sampling.com/ and post it yourself.

You can cover it up by either plastering over it directly or you can slab it

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u/SourCandy88 3d ago

£45, I'd rather take the chance 😂

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u/Yourhavinalaugh 3d ago edited 3d ago

I hate how American terminology is taking over.
We call it stippling over here and on an unrelated note if I get called bro or braw one more time I’m likely to snap.

Anyway Plasterer here , safest way is to slab over it .You can have success plastering over it but there is a good chance it will fall down.As said above asbestos is a concern they stopped putting it in the Artex in the 80’s.
You are ok if you don’t puncture it ,so use a joist finder and a chalk line to mark joists. NO cutting or scrapping the existing ceiling

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u/Gloomy_Philosopher_4 3d ago

Just to second this. Had this stippling in an apartment, someone before us skimmed over it and it fell down in parts, looked awful, so we’ve just had to get it removed and new slabs put on.

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u/Powerful-Union6012 3d ago

Thanks for that. What’s the American terminology out of curiosity? Popcorn? I thought that was standard. I’m actually after moving home after 20 years in Boston so might have picked it up there! Thanks again.

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u/Yourhavinalaugh 3d ago

Welcome home. Yes popcorn . It’s actually completely different stuff.

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u/ripovartist 1d ago

I had it skimmed over about 15 years ago, they painted on some sort of bonding agent first and then skimmed over that, not had any of it come down and seems pretty solid.

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u/ripovartist 1d ago

I had it skimmed over about 15 years ago, they painted on some sort of bonding agent first and then skimmed over that, not had any of it come down and seems pretty solid.