On 24/10/2013 6:04 PM, WILTON wrote:
'Bought a rental house middle of June, 1980; a master sergeant retiring from
Air Force moved out of base housing into the house July 4th weekend, 1980;
moved out 'bout 3 months ago. 'Started painting interior of the rental house
today.
For more than 60 years that I have been involved with houses in some manner -
designing, building, restoring, repairing, inspecting, owning, buying, selling,
renting (for myself and to others) - I have been lucky enough not to hafta
paint a ceiling with the sprayed-on textured crap. I have never used it in any
house I built, and have not had to deal with it until today. Interior of the
rental house is badly stained with nicotine - all the ceilings are stained
tan/beige - need to paint 'em. 'Started painting a ceiling with a roller this
afternoon. Immediately as I came back with some overlap across the
just-painted area laid down with the first stroke, texture on the ceiling in
the just-painted area stuck to the roller in big flakes and sheets 2 to 3
inches square. The wet paint causes it to easily come off if you touch it
again while it's wet.
Any of y'all painted one of these crappy ceilings? Am I gonna hafta spray it
with water and scrape it off with a putty knife? How 'bout spray painting it?
If spray-painted, will it get heavy enough before it dries that it'll fall off.
Wilton
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If it is coming off that easy, I would think just scrape it off. Do
check to see if there is asbestos though as it would not be all that
good to mess with it if it is. Not just for you but for the new tenant
that moves in later. Asbestos needs to be dealt with carefully. Not that
I wouldn't try doing it myself but just that one would need to know a
bit more about the process and how to avoid contaminating the whole place.
If it can be scraped off easily, then I would suggest trying to get an
idea of how flat the ceiling is. The main reason for spraying this stuff
is to hide defects. The builder does not have to be as careful in terms
of trying to get a nice flat ceiling as this texture hides a lot. If the
ceiling looks pretty good, then a bit of smoothing with some patching
compound and you should be good to just paint it. If the ceiling looks
bad, then I think I would get it sprayed with the stipple again. It is
generally pretty fast and cheap to do it. The biggest job is just the
masking of the walls etc with poly. Once that is in place one felllow
can spray a ceiling in just a few minutes.
My house has stipple over most of it. I would not do that again but that
was pretty common when my house was built in the early 80's. We have
removed it from some of the smaller rooms like both of the bathrooms but
not from the bigger rooms as yet. Planning to remove it from the small
bedrooms as we are about to do some work on them. Would love to have it
out of the living room and dining room but the living room would be a
bigger job. I know the ceiling has its dips and wows as I can see them
in certain light even with the stipple. It really should be redone with
furring strips and new drywall etc but it has crown mouldings that would
have to come out and I don't want to do that so would just try to smooth
it out with patching compound. That is why I have not done it. A project
for some time in the future.
Randy
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