Popcorn ceiling removal and drywall repair.

The texture comes off, the drywall underneath gets finished, and the room is sealed before any of it starts. It is a separate service from interior painting, and it combines with an interior repaint.
A smooth ceiling after popcorn ceiling removal, finished with crown molding
Proposal in 48 business hours

detailed, electronic, e-signed

8 years in the trade
Hixson and greater Chattanooga
2-year workmanship warranty
from the date of completion
Mon–Fri, 8am–6pm
(423) 800-5425
What’s included

Popcorn ceilings, and the drywall behind them.

Popcorn ceiling removal and drywall repair are separate services from interior painting, and can be combined with an interior repaint.
A close view of a textured popcorn ceiling before removal

Popcorn ceiling removal

The texture comes off, the ceiling underneath gets finished.
A room sealed floor to ceiling in plastic sheeting

Containment

The room is sealed before anything is scraped.
A smooth ceiling after popcorn ceiling removal, finished with crown molding

Smooth finish

Skim-coated, sanded and painted.

A painter rolling a finished ceiling

Drywall repair

Nail holes, minor imperfections and larger repairs.

The process

Seal the room. Take the texture off. Finish what is underneath.

Popcorn removal is three jobs in a row, and the middle one is the reason the first one matters so much.

01

Seal the room

Floors, walls and doorways are covered so the dust stays in the room it is made in.

02

Take the texture off

The popcorn comes down. What is underneath is rarely finished — it was never meant to be seen.

03

Skim and sand

The ceiling is skim-coated and sanded until it is flat enough to take a finish without showing every joint.

04

Prime and paint

Then it is primed and painted, and the room goes back together.
Before 1980

One question to settle before anything comes down.

Popcorn texture applied before roughly 1980 can contain asbestos. It is safe while it is intact and on the ceiling; scraping it is exactly the thing that makes it not safe. If your house is that age, the texture gets tested before anyone touches it.
A room sealed with plastic sheeting from floor to ceiling before work begins

Chattanooga · the room sealed before any texture came off

Containment

The room gets sealed first.

This is what our crew’s containment actually looks like — photographed on a real project, not described in a brochure.

With an interior repaint

It is usually one project, not two.

Popcorn ceiling removal, drywall repair and cabinet refinishing are separate services and can be combined with an interior repaint. If you are repainting anyway, the ceiling is the sensible time to deal with it — the room is already emptied, covered and sealed.

What the interior page already covers

Included in an interior repaint
Reviewed separately
Nail holes and minor wall imperfections repaired
Larger drywall repairs
Areas spot-primed when necessary
Popcorn ceiling removal
Ceilings painted
Cabinet refinishing
The work

Textured, then smooth.

Two photographs from the same Chattanooga project.
A textured popcorn ceiling above tan walls

Before · textured ceiling

The finished smooth ceiling above the same tan walls
After · smooth and painted

The cost

What shapes the scope and investment.

Drawn from the interior factors that bear on ceilings and drywall.
Ceiling area
Ceiling height

Condition of the drywall underneath

Amount of repair required

Number of rooms

Whether the rooms are occupied

Accessibility

What makes one ceiling cost more than another

Area matters least. What moves a popcorn ceiling project is the state of the drywall under the texture and how high it is — a nine-foot ceiling over a stairwell is a different job from the same area in a bedroom.

Doing several rooms at once is cheaper per room than doing them one at a time, because the containment and the setup are most of the effort. If you are planning to do the whole floor eventually, it is worth doing it in one go.

A freshly rolled white ceiling with the walls below masked and taped

Your project

Tell us about your ceilings.

A phone conversation first. Then an on-site look at the ceilings and the drywall underneath, and a detailed proposal within 48 business hours.

Popcorn ceiling removal in Hixson, and the towns around it.

Chattanooga

Hixson

Signal Mountain

Ooltewah

Red Bank

Soddy-Daisy

East Brainerd

Lookout Mountain

Lookout Valley

Apison

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