LouB wrote in :

I live in The Villages in Florida.
Friend has ceiling of her garage painted with "popcorn".
House is 9 years old. some of the paint is coming off, but there is no
sign of water damage of any kind. Anyone have experience with this
stuff?

Lou



Depends on how bad. I've seen lots of them have isolated areas that
loosen and flake here and there. Key is isolated. If they stay intact,
I've put them back up using glue, paint or mud on the back. If not in
tact, see an old post of mine reposted below.

In that case I just guess maybe some dirt was in the spots and adhesion
was not the same as the rest. Another thing I suspect (guessing again) is
the insualtion above (blown fiberglass) may have some voids creating hot
spots in the ceiling drywall resulting in extreme dryout.

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Subject: Popcorn ceiling
Newsgroups: PeoplePC:alt.home.repair
To: in2dadark

in2dadark wrote in news:25aefee7-6fd0-455b-96d8-
:

There are a couple of spots on my popcorn ceiling that lost its pop.
Can I repair this with spackle and a sponge or do they sell somehthing
more specific for this.?
Thanks.

The sprays are expensive and a real crapshoot. I found the product below
at
the Blue Borg. It works quite well if you ask me considering the low rate
of success most have fixing popcorn. Premixed. The popcorn itself is
actually polystyrene chips. Matching is just a matter of how good you get
at doing it. Dab on with a cheap paint brush. Don't like what you're
getting just wipe it off with wet rag. Let it dry and paint with ceiling
paint. Paid 5 bucks for a qt. Goes a long way. Wish I found it long ago
actually.


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