week 3: popcorn ceiling removal

Removing the popcorn ceiling was so much easier than we thought. We finished the 2 bedrooms, the family room and the nook in one day. The cleanup was worse than the actual removal. TIP: Use a one gallon weed-bug sprayer filled with tap water and spray the ceiling sections at a time. Soak it pretty
good. Wait 2-3 minutes and then scrape. It should come off like, like... wet joint compound (duh). Max scraped the utility room ceiling dry during the week and he said it took him 2 hours. Getting the acoustic wet is definitely the key. The second day I sanded the ceilings smooth while Max
removed the intake vents for the obsolete swamp cooler and patched the ceilings. Max also completed the demo of the utlity room. It's now a clean slate for however he wants to configure it. PICS: 1 - Max removing popcorn in the family room; 2 & 3 - Varying stages of the utility room.