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It's time to wet, scrape and get dirty

Fill the weed sprayer with water (right out of your kitchen sink), and start spraying your ceiling. If you’re doing this by yourself, realize that you will probably need to spray down the whole ceiling twice before you even begin to scrape, and then again spray the area you are immediately working on.

You want the ceiling to be wet, not just moist or slightly dampened, so go crazy with that weed sprayer. Seeing how it only shoots small amounts of water at a time, it is going to take about 20 minutes to get enough water on the ceiling to be effective.

Now that the ceiling is wet, put on your mask, grab your scraper and scrape away. As you are scraping it should be more of a push action then a pulling action. Don’t forget to go along the wall joints! Use perpendicular strokes to the wall. Make sure all edges are completely clean and free of all popcorn material.

Hold the scraper at a 22-35 degree angle. That should give you the right amount of pressure to scrape the popcorn off without gouging the sheetrock to bits!

It could take you anywhere from an hour and a half to two hours to scrape all the popcorn off one ceiling, including all the edge detail. Vaulted ceilings take considerably longer. Now on to the next room.

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