FAQ

We repaint a lot of popcorn ceiling. They make painters feel difficult to get finefinish, generally popcorn ceiling looks like midium texture on the surface. The heavier the texture, the harder apply paint on it. Not only because the spatter from the irregular base, but also the surface hard to get full coverage, missing point and mess everywhere. There are thousands of flat built in 1975-1995 with the popcorn ceiling through out Sydney wide. They also called vermiculite ceiling. Of course it’s old fasion, but still dozens of enquires from customer for repainting them each year. Stain and water damage on the ceiling made us move slow, use the cloth clean them waste time, stain cover take cure time. As we try to use long nap sheepskin roller to get a fine coverage, it always mess like hell, the roller bring the texture and the mini rocks down, from head to foot, all over. Paint waste much, flow down with spatters, the whole room like a fightfield, paint, scree, and sorry-faced painter. Though after the first coat, rest of coats would be easier, I still not recommend this way for popcorn ceiling. Not economic nor environment friendly. We test a 2 bedroom unit about 70square meters popcorn ceiling cost about 100 litre ceiling paint for a finefinish! 30% of the paint drop on the ground at the first coat. Why this happend? The main issue still the irregular surface, some point suck paint, some point reject, that’s why the coverage always poor. We even test rolling in different directions to improve the coverage, the result still can’t satisfied me.   I talk to quite a few painters about this, they all feel nightmare with it. Most of the painter still roll it, because normally unit with popcorn ceiling is inhabited. Funitures, floors and people would not give us much space to spray the ceiling. However, I insist the spray way is the yes way, if we can ignore the cost of the coversheet or the tape time, spray would give us a easy finish. the only tips here, is you cover more, use heavy duty drop sheet. protect all the things well, step by step, first coat spray I recommend use the thick primer to seal all the small holes and second-third coat would be perfect for coverage. You not only save the time but also the paint. The most important thing is you won’t need to worry about the texture peel down by you long nap heavy loaded roller.