![]() We enjoyed renovating and transforming the ceiling, and the residents now enter and move through a much more contemporary environment. A patch job will always be evident, and water leaks from above as well as unintentional ceiling damage are all possible, even for ceilings on a top floor. One major drawback of the ol' popcorn ceiling is that it can never be repaired to look the same as the original. Not only does this smooth ceiling contribute to property value and interior aesthetics, but also it will be super easy to repair. With a steady hand and smooth-sided trowel, the Paintworks & Decorating experts crafted a beautiful, unwrinkled ceiling surface. Sometimes when a popcorn ceiling has been painted over many times it is more cost effective and dust/mess reducing to skim coat over the popcorn ceiling. The texture isn’t your typical popcorn ceiling where you touch it and it just falls off. The job we recently completed in a co-op condo building lobby and hallways involved adding skim coat plastering over the popcorn component. So far the three recommendations for the ceiling are to remove the texture and skim coat it, to dry wall over it, and to skim coat over the ceiling as it currently stands with the popcorn texture. Additionally, they were touted for acoustical properties, but we can raise the bar on that by completely sealing your popcorn nuggets in plaster and then smoothing everything with a skim coat to a contemporary, lustrous finish. Popcorn ceilings are a little infamous for covering poor workmanship or sloppy installation, akin to heavy Hollandaise sauce on eggs Benedict when the yolks have already begun to drool. The bright white attraction can easily be satiated with today's wonderfully-formulated ceiling paints, and the sleek look of a smooth surface over your head modernizes the proverbial loft, condo, house, lobby, work place and office space throughout all the boroughs of New York City. The popcorn ceiling has gone the way of dot matrix printers, landlines and fax machines for no longer being needed or especially appealing. Take a break and watch this video below of the process, and you’ll know just want to expect from our expert skim coaters and painters. We delivered a beautifully crafted new ceiling, and skim coating is definitely both an art and a craft, finely tuned only by professional experience. Then we skim coated some 4 coats before it could all be smoothed like the client wanted. Bet you didn’t know we even do that! Thus, we had to prime the ceiling first to eliminate releasing any dust into the room. Multiple coats – applying, drying, sanding, applying again and so on.įor this downtown Manhattan job, the ceiling tested positive for asbestos. But now, customers are requesting skim coatings that offer a smooth appearance. Their attraction in the late 1970s was in hiding imperfections and absorbing sound, thereby reducing noise. Its popularity is undisputed, but the appeal of popcorn ceilings waned a couple decades ago. ![]() Popcorn sales top $1 billion per year and more than 17 billion quarts are consumed. Popcorn is one of six types of maize or corn and the only one of these whole grains which pops. Downtown Manhattan Skim Coating Contractors ![]()
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