Popcorn Removal
  • 54 points mik3br

    I hate popcorn ceilings

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    10 points ThePolitePunk

    Same. This is beautiful and cathartic.

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    2 points FollowTheCows

    Same goes for you ThePolitePunk

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    3 points Natural_Tourist_527

    So. Many. Balloons. RUINED.

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    2 points Sfogliatelle99

    Me too

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    1 points FollowTheCows

    I hate you

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  • 22 points [deleted]

    i need a job doing this

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    7 points Timmerdogg

    Your shoulders won't like it very much

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    12 points Wrong-Koala9174

    This probably takes away 10 years of your life because of tge very likely asbestos inside

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    10 points meatpiesurprise

    No asbestos in 90% of it

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    5 points AveryGalaxy

    If you test it and wet it first, you should be fine.

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    3 points ancalime9

    Good advice for any new partner

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  • 19 points louiemay99

    I thought more PPE would be involved. Eye glasses especially

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    7 points toxicdrawsit

    In this economy?!

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    3 points [deleted]

    That's what safety squints are for.

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  • 3 points Mercury-77

    I’m not even gonna ask for context

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  • 9 points Available-Current550

    How old is the building? If it's before 1990 that could have asbestos in it..

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    4 points AveryGalaxy

    There exist asbestos tests, and they probably came back clean since they’re doing this dry and not wet.

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    2 points BigHairyBussy

    Homeboy doesn’t even have goggles on. He didn’t test jack squat.

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    2 points AveryGalaxy

    They test for asbestos well before removing the popcorn ceilings. It was likely tested years in advance by a different company.

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  • 4 points AveryGalaxy

    Ahhh, I love the smell of asbestos in the morning.

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  • 2 points unarmedsandwich

    Why they had so much popcorn stuck on the ceiling?

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  • 1 points Twoaxlepaul

    Should spray it with water first to avoid the dust.

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  • 2 points ContributionVisual40

    Yeah you need more protection than a mask lol. Asbestos gets everywhere.

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  • 1 points Umami-Ice-Cream

    Spray it with vinegar water + a bit of soap. Turns it to paste. Comes right off without the dust.

    As a whole, vinegar is your fucking friend. Get a gallon of that shit.

    It's good for washing, cleaning wood, etc

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  • 1 points Notlistning

    I could watch this all day

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  • 1 points Alex_Drewskie

    What is popcorn ceiling? My old house used to have it growing up but I never understood what it was

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  • 2 points Blunttack

    Would be kinda fun to do, and probably satisfying… but those are the only reasons people do this, righty? I can go days without looking at our ceiling. Plus they’re like 9 feet up. Lol. Lotta work.

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    5 points Mrlin705

    There are lots of reasons to do this. Asbestos concerns, ugly AF, harder to paint because it disintegrates, gets dust/cobwebs caught in it that are very hard to remove, etc.

    We had a house with a vaulted ceiling that was popcorn, there was a staircase and balcony that was in the same room, so if you stood on the balcony you were staring at the ceiling eye level above that room.

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