How To Wood Plank A Popcorn Ceiling

Between each row we used a nickel for a spacer.

How to wood plank a popcorn ceiling.

Scraping the popcorn ceiling is not that hard of a job all you need is a spray bottle with water a 6 inch scraper and a cheap drywall mud pan. Then i gave one side of each plank 2 coats of paint. And for a little extra security we ll squirt some liquid nails on the back side of each plank too. It s still covered in popcorn but since we re doing the planks we didn t see any point in scraping it all off we ll just find the ceiling joists with a stud finder mark them with chalk lines and nail gun them into the joists.

As long as the ceiling is wet there will be no dust. We got 6 planks out of each sheet of plywood. It made for a very speedy job. He made a sled shown below to speed up the process.

If it is just the popcorn then the removal consists of spraying the ceiling with water i used a 1 gallon garden sprayer with water from our sink and scraping. You do not want it soaked but somewhere between a light spray and dripping. We used a bostitch air compressor and nail gun and 1 and 3 8 inch 18 gauge nails to nail the plywood planks into the ceiling. This created just a small line between the planks to make them more visible yet not allow any of the popcorn texture to show through.

You want to make sure that your planks run perpendicular to the joists in the popcorn ceiling. This meant that once the planks were nailed up we were done. Before we started the ceiling ed cut all the plywood into 8 planks.