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the glossier the paint or if you use solid colors the better job you need to do on the finish or it will show. you need some mud even over the areas where there is tape to bury it sufficiently.
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If you spread that thickness of a piece of tape plus filler over the entire ceiling it's a lot of mud! drywallers are experts at making those waves between the top of the tape and the adjacent areas not show. I do that as a filling operation and I don't put a lot of crown over my tape. you have to fill the space of the thickness of the tape. Ive also not had any of the spiderweb cracks transfer through. it sticks better and you can flatten it out, otherwise you need more filler to hide the tape which is the normal way but I hate when it peels so I do this and I've never seen one spot let even try to let go. To fix cracks in plaster I soak the drywall tape in a mix of water and carpenters glue. in other rooms I just applied drywall over the plaster or even removed the plaster.
#SKIM COAT POPCORN CEILING CRACK#
Ive done both, in one room I stripped all the wallpaper off and washed all the calcimine paint off, taped every crack in the plaster, skim coated to perfection. She used to teach the trades, so I guess that is why. See Jane Drill has a bunch of plaster repair videos, that I found very helpful as her explanations and demonstrations were very clear. There's lots of good plaster repair and skimcoating videos that show professionals at work, and how they handle their tools. I don't think Tom Da Silva, from This Old House, is a very proficient plasterer. I finally bought different glasses for close work and reading and that helped a lot. I would typically get terrible neck and shoulder pain after a day of intensive ceiling battle, which I think was exacerbated by having to constantly hold my head a certain way to look through the lower progressive lens area for close-up work.
I think this is a combination of weak upper body strength, but also being a progressive lens wearer. He also seems to not be setting the screws deeply enough with the washers, IME. The tape or mesh will help to hold onto more joint compound than going over the washers bare. They DO use large areas of fibreglass screen to stabilize though, which I have not done. One thing they don't do in the "This Old House" video is apply mesh tape over the plaster washers before they skim coat. I did fantasize about adding glitter to them, since I couldn't make them go away (I wasn't going to skimcoat the ceilings in an entire apartment).
I watched a bunch of videos online about removal, but these ceilings had definitely been painted with several coats of oil paint as no matter what I did, the popcorn crud would not budge.
The Nightmare Apartment had popcorn ceilings. It's great if you can scrape the popcorn ceiling off before you repair/skim.
#SKIM COAT POPCORN CEILING HOW TO#
See Jane Drill has some great how to videos, including really clear advice about plaster repairs. If the plaster is flexible enough to be moved by your hand then shore that up with plaster washers, then mesh tape, and skim coat over that. My $ 0.02: scrape off any seriously loose or flaking areas, before you skim coat. 16/19), and I noticed the cracks after that. There are a couple of areas with a new tiny hairline crack - but there was also a major explosion that shook all the houses in this area (Aug. My skimcoated areas have stayed stuck, even over painted areas.
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(I had done some surgery to remove a patch to replace with thinner drywall but then that was an even worse ordeal, and even more labour intensive to correct). I have had to skim coat sections of ceilings during repairs, including building up areas where the PO had used patches of drywall that were too thick. Are you doing ceiling repairs or trying to smooth out a popcorn/textured ceiling ?
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