Comments on: Covering Popcorn Ceiling with Wood Planks

By: Gail Wilson

Gail Wilson — Sat, 25 Nov 2023 16:06:36 +0000

Sonya,

Thank YOU for being a friend of My Repurposed Life! I still have popcorn ceiling in my other rooms. I have too many irons in the fire to deal with them at this time in my life. BUT, I’m soooo happy I covered them up in the kitchen.

good luck!
gail

By: Sonya Choate

Sonya Choate — Sat, 18 Nov 2023 00:50:18 +0000

Gail, I’ve been following you & subscribed for at least 4 yrs, thank you very much for the great upcycles. My home of 35 yrs has popcorn ceilings and I’m ready to pull my hair out. Thank you and ML
Sonya

By: Gail Wilson

Gail Wilson — Tue, 12 Jul 2022 18:53:46 +0000

In reply to Cindy. I still love my plank ceiling! But, have popcorn in all the other rooms still. ugh! gail

By: Cindy

Cindy — Mon, 11 Jul 2022 08:09:33 +0000

Excellent job my ceiling is two years in holding strong. I did the exact same thing. Way to go thinking outside the box, sometimes I find people look at what others do just so they can rip it apart, take positive leave the rest in the rear view. Cheers it looks Great

By: Gail Wilson

Gail Wilson — Thu, 01 Apr 2021 01:01:05 +0000

In reply to Gaylene Mullins. I used the thin plywood as my planks. Wood (lumber) would have been too heavy. We nailed directly to the popcorn ceiling. I hope that clears things up for you Gaylene. gail

By: Gaylene Mullins

Gaylene Mullins — Sun, 28 Mar 2021 16:12:49 +0000

Did you use the plywood as your planks or did you buy lumber as your planks? Are the lumber planks installed and nailed to the plywood? Why would cut the plywood into 6” strips if you are going to nail lumber planks? Why not just use the lumber? Anyway I would like to do this but as you can read I am very confused.

Thanks,
Gaylene

By: Gail Wilson

Gail Wilson — Sun, 31 Jan 2021 21:47:34 +0000

In reply to Lynne.

Lynne,

I really didn’t have to adjust for the thickness of the board for the ceiling fan or the light.

gail

By: Lynne

Lynne — Sun, 31 Jan 2021 18:05:49 +0000

Did you have to adjust for the thickness of the board when you replaced the lighting?

By: Gail Wilson

Gail Wilson — Mon, 08 Oct 2018 13:29:38 +0000

In reply to Andrew.

Thanks for stopping by and taking the time to leave a well thought out comment.
We found the joists and popped a chalk line. We didn’t with the joists, we went across them. They fell 16″ on center. So far so good, but I will keep you updated on the outcome.
We did use adhesive.

gail

By: Andrew

Andrew — Wed, 03 Oct 2018 13:56:43 +0000

I feel a bit nit picky, but if you rip a sheet of plywood in half (long ways), and then do it again, you have 12 inch wide planks (minus the kerf), not 6 inch. There is absolutely no way you “nailed them to the studs”, first off studs are something in the walls, on ceilings you’d be talking about the bottoms of rafters or floor joists of the floor above. Second, the joists or rafters would be 16-24 inch spacing so very, very few of your nails would line up with the joists and even if they did, 1 inch finishing nails or whatever you used would barely make it through the drywall to even connect to a floor joist. Long story short, my concern is that your planks are not very well attached to the ceiling at all. Six thin finishing nails (per board) punched into crumbly soft old drywall is not much to keep those things in the air. I’m sure it looks great now but I’m guessing its going to warp and the nails will pull out on you bit by bit over time, watch out for that. Perhaps if the boards had some construction adhesive smeared on the top side first and then got tacked up there with the nails… but there again, drywall is not a very solid material to adhere anything to. Assuming you scraped the ceiling first you’d be gluing boards to painted paper backing of the drywall… Just doesn’t seem good. I like how it looks I just don’t think those planks will stay up there flat without eventually having to put screws in them. Just my two cents maybe give us an update in another year or two to let us know how its holding up.