Popcorn ceiling removal

[otterlakefarm]

You might find it cheaper (and less messy) to hire a drywaller to skim coat over the existing popcorn ceiling and then you can just repaint. Worked on a rental we had (although a ceiling in a small room).

[denverian]

Originally Posted by Desdemona123

On NEW constuction? Oh my.

I found the same thing in the suburbs of Kansas City when helping my parents house hunt. (I don't live there) I was shocked to see that crap in new construction! I told the sales guy that I had recently paid good money to have it remove from my 30 year old condo in California, and explained that "popcorn removal" was big business on the West Coast. He seemed clueless.

[TriMT7]

I'm not sure if it's an entirely true story or not, but when I was buying my current home, the home inspector told us how popcorn ceilings came to be. He said back when the first condo crazes started, the ceilings would often be concrete and flawed or uneven, so a clever developer invented "popcorn ceilings" to cover up the flaws in the ceiling, and called it an "upgrade!"