Walls and Ceilings - removing 80's bad-taste textured plaster ceiling stuff?
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esteban
09-17-04, 05:16 PM
Oh, help!
I'm a devoted Realtor who works entirely too hard & falls deeply in love with all my clients--& now I need to figure out how on earth to voo-doo the ceilings in a massive (about 4,000 sq. ft) house built in the 80's--which, around here (Gwinnett, Ga) are pretty typically smeared with some kind of plaster-ick stuff that it looks like somebody jammed a paintbrush into & twisted into sort of star-shapes. Most ceilings are only about 9', but there is a Great Room where the entire Greek Pantheon could hold their annual Grapefest--
Hasn't somebody invented a way to cover over this stuff or something? it isn't the popcorn variety, alas, because I guess you can scrape that off easy. I found some textured wall/ceiling paper that could be painted a la tin ceiling, but a) it would be a bit pricy and b) who'd do it?
any thoughts would be desperately apreciated. I'd had to lose the sale, but mostly because the buyers really love the house (victorian, hard to find around here) & the seller really loves the buyers & well, I really love myjob!
if you don't mind, you could email me at esteban@homebasegeorgiateam.com.
thanx!!!!!!!!
I'm a devoted Realtor who works entirely too hard & falls deeply in love with all my clients--& now I need to figure out how on earth to voo-doo the ceilings in a massive (about 4,000 sq. ft) house built in the 80's--which, around here (Gwinnett, Ga) are pretty typically smeared with some kind of plaster-ick stuff that it looks like somebody jammed a paintbrush into & twisted into sort of star-shapes. Most ceilings are only about 9', but there is a Great Room where the entire Greek Pantheon could hold their annual Grapefest--
Hasn't somebody invented a way to cover over this stuff or something? it isn't the popcorn variety, alas, because I guess you can scrape that off easy. I found some textured wall/ceiling paper that could be painted a la tin ceiling, but a) it would be a bit pricy and b) who'd do it?
any thoughts would be desperately apreciated. I'd had to lose the sale, but mostly because the buyers really love the house (victorian, hard to find around here) & the seller really loves the buyers & well, I really love myjob!
if you don't mind, you could email me at esteban@homebasegeorgiateam.com.
thanx!!!!!!!!
awesomedell
09-17-04, 07:15 PM
Do we know for sure what material the texture is done in? Is it plaster up there or is it drywall mud? From your post I'm led to believe it's plaster which is a whole different show, but if it was done with thinned drywall mud, it can still be wetted, scraped, sanded, and finally reskimmed to get back to a smooth slick ceiling if that's what the buyer desires, although it would proably be less work to come back with a more desirable textured finish ceiling, IMO.
Plaster can also be sanded and scraped down, but it's gonna be harder to do and will definitely cost ya more.
As far as who is going to do this, that depends on who is footing the bill and how deep their pockets are. Again from your description of the place, it sounds like a typical "castle". I've hung & finished great rooms that were from 16' all the way up to 29' in the air, takes special equipment, and isn't gonna be cheap to have hired done. Contact a drywall or plaster contractor or 3 and have them come by and give some bids on it. W/O knowing the specifics of the job, (sq ftg, height of ceiling, existing texture make-up, and desired finish, distance to travel, etc) can't possibly begin to even give an educated guess as to the cost of the whole thing.
But it can be done. Good luck! :D
Plaster can also be sanded and scraped down, but it's gonna be harder to do and will definitely cost ya more.
As far as who is going to do this, that depends on who is footing the bill and how deep their pockets are. Again from your description of the place, it sounds like a typical "castle". I've hung & finished great rooms that were from 16' all the way up to 29' in the air, takes special equipment, and isn't gonna be cheap to have hired done. Contact a drywall or plaster contractor or 3 and have them come by and give some bids on it. W/O knowing the specifics of the job, (sq ftg, height of ceiling, existing texture make-up, and desired finish, distance to travel, etc) can't possibly begin to even give an educated guess as to the cost of the whole thing.
But it can be done. Good luck! :D