Looking for advice on drywall in garage

[jcummins]

I’ve be doing some updating to our house in Texas, in prep for putting on the market. (anyone want to buy 126 acres?).

First I’m dealing with the interior of an unheated garaged attached to the house by a breezeway. The garage ceiling and walls are the popcorn or textured paint type of finish, and it is coming loose at the seams. Now that I’ve gotten into it, I’m finding the texture just pops off fairly easily 5-6 inches either side of all seams, but is adhered pretty good in the center of the drywall. I’m also seeing very little drywall mudd used. In some places it looks like they just stuck masking tape up, then sprayed or rolled over it. I suspect humidity has worked from the inside of the seams causing this. Below is pictures of what I’ve got.

Being a tired old man, I want to finish this off to look decent without spending a lot of effort or money. At first I was going to remove all the texture, redo the joints and spray some regular interior paint with no texture (have a decent sprayer) ….but those sections where the texture is adhered good….it’s going to take some work to get it off. I now have thought of mudding in new tape, then rolling a product such as this.. http://www.behr.com/dsm-ext/v/index...0e0bd2039a110VgnVCM1000006b0910acRCRD;view=17 over the whole thing…without removing the tighter adhered texture in the middle of these sections.

Will this texture paint provided enough cover to make the job look ok. Anyone got better ideas?

 

[1969]

Mudding in new tape and doing a 2nd coat will help greatly , a third coat would even be better before the texture paint.

 

[Nighttrain]

Check a local rental place and see if the have a Porter-Cable power sander made for drywall sanding. It’s a orbital sander on a long wand that you hook up to the vacuum. They have 6-or 8" disk for it. Works well taking down the mud pretty quick for a clean finish. New the cost about $450.

http://www.google.com/products/cata...log_result&ct=result&resnum=3&ved=0CDEQ8wIwAg

Where in Texas are you?

 

[Painter123]

you are going to have to do one of a few things to make that all look like one finish

1. Sheet rock over the whole mess (basically second layer) and then tape an texture

2. Skim coat all of the old texture/drywall untill you have one smooth surface then texture

3. Just smooth out the seams/tape joints then spray the heavyest texture you can on every surface let the texture dry, repeat spraying and drying until you have a uniforn look

4.Smooth out the tape joints, spray a very very heavy texture and wipe it down to a fairly smooth finish, let it dry then spray the finish texture (basically like #2 but spray on the skim coat instead of manually apply)

5. Try hitting the well adheared texture with a garden sprayer let it sit for 10 or 20 minutes then scrape it off with a large puddy knife/drywall knife, once it's all scraped off tape and texture as normal

 

[Busted_Knuckles]

How about repairing the seams (might try some hot mud for your first bed before the tape goes down for better adhesion), top it off, and then spray mud on the entire ceiling, and then knock it down with a knife. There is a name for tha process, don't know what its called. Its common in the cookie cutter houses where they don't want to spend the money on a "level" finish. Basically you'd be hiding the popcorn under a new low labor fast finish, that would not require removal of the popcorn.

Oh, I should mention, if youre new to "hot" mud, heads up, it sticks to everything when it cures, including under water (dont dump any in the toilet!) like your drain pipes.

 

[James E]

Popcorn comes off very easily with a spray bottle full of water and a fairly dull metal scraper or putty knife. Don't go too sharp or you'll scar up the sheetrock underneath.

Just spray the popcorn with liberal amounts of water and it comes right off.

 

[dcovey]

Popcorn comes off very easily with a spray bottle full of water and a fairly dull metal scraper or putty knife. Don't go too sharp or you'll scar up the sheetrock underneath.

Just spray the popcorn with liberal amounts of water and it comes right off.

Ditto.

I remodeled my 3 bedroom, 2 bath. Used a spray bottle with water and scraper. It came off in sheets..Only recommendation I'd add is use a garden sprayer if you have a lot to do cause you will definately build up your forearms pumping a hand held sprayer.

Also I went to Harbor Frieght and bought a texture sprayer to redo my ceilings. Use plain drywall mud but thin it down with water. Make a few practice sprays until you get the finish you want..

If I can do it it's easy..

Dave

 

[tcianci]

Definately dont try to put anything over the old popcorn, like others have said it will come right off with water. Or it will come right off with anything you try to use as a finish over it!. Take the popcorn off, remove any loose tape and re-tape with either adhesive drywall tape or paper tape and mud, then hit the entire surface with a coat of bucket mud and a TROWEL, not joint knife. you will find it easy to develop a modest texture that will look good and hide nearly every flaw you would usually have in an old drywall job. The material and tool cost is very low and the results will make it look brand new.

 

[eborcim]

What mud did you end up using?? Does anyone have recommendations on a good brand?