Popcorn Ceiling Services in Austin, TX
Twelve services, and most Austin jobs use three or four of them together. The list below is grouped by the decision you are actually making rather than by trade jargon, because half the people who call us do not yet know whether their ceiling is painted, whether it needs testing, or whether they want it flat.
Before anyone scrapes
- Asbestos Testing Before RemovalCeiling sprayed before 1986? A lab sample settles it in a few days and costs a fraction of guessing wrong.
Getting the texture off
- Painted Popcorn Ceiling RemovalSprayed a patch with water and nothing softened? It has been painted, and that is a different job with a different price.
- Dustless Popcorn Ceiling RemovalLiving in the house while it happens? Sealed rooms, HEPA extraction and a zip door mean the kitchen stays usable.
- Acoustic, Stucco and Cottage Cheese Ceiling RemovalCottage cheese, stucco, acoustic, stipple. Different names, one product, and they all come off the same way.
- Popcorn Wall Texture RemovalFlattened the ceilings and now the walls look wrong? Doing both together costs far less than coming back.
What the ceiling looks like afterwards
- Knockdown and Orange Peel RetexturingWant the ceiling to match the rest of the street? Knockdown hides substrate movement in a way a flat ceiling never will.
- Level 5 Smooth Ceiling Skim CoatBig windows and a flat ceiling? Raking light finds everything, so this one is a full level 5 skim or nothing.
- Ceiling Priming and PaintingFresh compound drinks paint unevenly. Primer is not an upsell here, it is what stops the ceiling looking patchy.
When removal is not the answer
- Drywall Overlay Over PopcornCeiling painted three times and cracked underneath? Screwing new board over the top can genuinely be the cheaper answer.
- Ceiling Drywall and Water Stain RepairBrown rings on the ceiling mean the paper got wet, and wet paper tears under a scraper. Fix first, scrape second.
Property types with their own rules
- Apartment and Rental Ceiling RemovalOwn a fiveplex? Texas law treats that ceiling completely differently to the identical one in a fourplex next door.
- Pre-Listing Ceiling Removal for SellersListing in six weeks? Flat ceilings photograph better and stop the inspection conversation before it starts.
Guides, if you are still deciding
- Popcorn Ceiling Removal CostEvery number we quote from, published: per square foot, by room size, and what pushes a job to the top of the range.
- Popcorn Ceiling Asbestos GuideThe ban was 1977 but ceilings kept getting sprayed into the mid eighties. That gap is the whole problem.
- Remove, Skim or CoverThree ways to get rid of a popcorn ceiling and only one of them is scraping. Here is when each wins.
- DIY or Hire a ProThe scraping is genuinely easy. It is the finishing afterwards that ends most DIY popcorn ceiling projects.
- Texas asbestos rules for popcorn ceilingsWhich Texas buildings the asbestos rules actually cover, and where the four dwelling unit line falls.