Repair Popcorn Ceiling Water Stain

Don t break out the compressor to do a little spot repair work on your popcorn ceiling.

Repair popcorn ceiling water stain. The first way to try and draw the stain out is with a concoction of bleach and water mixed into a spray bottle. Add a popcorn ceiling cleaner. The textured material that was sprayed on the ceiling years ago may fall off in pieces if you touch it with a roller or brush. You want to use the spray bottle because dabbing the mix on the ceiling can damage the sometimes brittle popcorn texture.

The bleach will have cleared out the most intensive stains around your ceiling. How to spot repair a popcorn ceiling. Before you can get water stains off of your drywall ceiling first you will need to eliminate the source of the moisture otherwise the stains will just keep coming back. It is even more likely if there has been water damage.

The popcorn texture stucco cottage cheese material in the water damaged area does not look the same as the rest of the ceiling. Once the problem is solved put on safety glasses and gloves and blot the stain with a mixture of one part water and one part bleach. I ll teach you how to repair a popcorn ceiling texture that has had water damage with new sheetrock in 1 day. Now i need to fix the area to blend in with the rest of the ceiling.

I ll show you how to tape a drywall repair h. A popcorn ceiling cleaner can be applied in the next step to improve upon how well the bleach works and to keep the ceiling from becoming discolored. Spraying popcorn texture with a hopper is messy and labor intensive. Covering stains on a popcorn ceiling can be difficult.

There are two main ways to attack a water stain on a popcorn ceiling drawing the stain out or covering it up. Today we repair a popcorn ceiling that had water damage and cracks on plaster enjoy disclaimer. Due to factors beyond the control of the drywall doctor we c. It s easy when you use a special texture patch now available in an aerosol spray can.

Make sure that underlying water leaks and wet materials have been fixed or like a perennial plant the stain. When water leaks onto a drywall ceiling ugly coffee colored stains usually appear. I have a popcorn ceiling and there is a dark water stain in the center i have found the source of the water leak and it has been fixed.