Drywall Repair · Nashville, TN
Popcorn Ceiling Removal in Nashville
Scraped, skimmed and refinished flat, with the room sealed and the asbestos question answered first.
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Popcorn Ceiling Removal in Nashville, Tennessee
Scraped, skimmed and refinished flat, with the room sealed and the asbestos question answered first.
Nashville's Drywall Repair does popcorn ceiling removal for homeowners across Middle Tennessee — licensed, insured, with the price in writing before the work starts. Drywall contractors who match the texture, feather the patch until it vanishes, and clean up the dust.
Why homeowners call
What usually makes the wall worth a call
- Nail pops across a whole wall
- Crack that keeps coming back
- Ceiling stained after a leak
- Patch that stands out worse than the hole
- Popcorn ceiling you want gone
- Corner beads cracked and chipped
What is included
Tape, mud and texture: what popcorn ceiling removal includes
- Asbestos question resolved before any scraping starts
- Room fully sealed and floors protected
- Texture wetted and scraped rather than dry-sanded
- Ceiling skimmed flat after removal
- Joints re-taped where the texture was hiding them
- Sanded with dust containment
- Primed and ready for paint
- All waste bagged and taken away
How a popcorn ceiling removal job goes, coat by coat
Anything installed before roughly 1980 has to be tested for asbestos before it is disturbed. This is not a formality: scraping asbestos-containing texture dry distributes it through the entire house, and no schedule is worth that.
Popcorn texture was often used to hide joint work that was never properly finished. Once it comes off, the ceiling underneath frequently needs full re-taping, and an honest quote allows for that possibility up front.
Wetting first is what makes it scrape cleanly and keeps the dust down. Dry scraping is faster for about ten minutes and considerably slower for the rest of the day.
The result should be a flat ceiling, not merely a scraped one. Skimming afterwards is most of the labor and all of the difference.
Also available
More drywall and ceiling work
Drywall Repair & Patching
Holes, cracks, dents and door handles through the wall, patched and finished so the repair disappears.
Learn moreCeiling Repair
Sagging, cracked and stained ceilings put right, including the joint work that stops the crack coming back.
Learn moreWater-Damaged Drywall
Cutting back to sound material, confirming it is dry, and rebuilding — not skimming over a wet board.
Learn moreTexture Matching
Knockdown, orange peel, skip trowel and hand textures matched to the existing wall, which is the part most patches fail.
Learn moreDrywall Installation
New walls and ceilings hung, taped and finished to a stated level rather than an assumed one.
Learn moreService area
Walls and ceilings patched throughout Middle Tennessee
Besides Nashville, our drywall crews work in 64 towns across 12 counties, and in any part of Middle Tennessee about an hour or less from Nashville.
FAQ
Popcorn Ceiling Removal: questions homeowners ask us
Is it safe to remove a popcorn ceiling?
After it has been tested — popcorn ceilings applied before the early eighties often contain asbestos, and many Nashville houses are that age. A sample is sent to a lab; if it is negative, the ceiling is wetted, scraped, skimmed and refinished. If it is positive, it is removed by a licensed abatement contractor or encapsulated. Scraping an untested ceiling is the one thing not to do.
How long does popcorn ceiling removal take?
Two to four days for a room — the room is sealed and the floor covered, the ceiling is sprayed and scraped, then skim-coated in two or three coats with drying between, sanded, primed and painted. A whole house is done in stages. Furniture is out of the room for the duration.
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Get popcorn ceiling removal that blends into the wall
Send Nashville's Drywall Repair a picture of the damage and the texture around it, and the written estimate will name the patch method and the finish we will match.