Max Strip Professional Strength Painted Popcorn Ceiling Remover - 1 Gallon - No Methylene Chloride No NMP Powerful No Drip Gel Formula

This stuff works amazing where it can penetrate well. Prior to getting the stuffI tried scraping off a small section to test for asbestos and was crying that I started this job because without this stuff it would’ve taken me the rest of my life to get it off of my entire hallway. I rolled it on and then tacked some trash bags on it. I left it on for probably an hour and most of the areas came off like butter. The corners and some other areas required quite a bit of elbow grease but that was likely due to application error rather than the product. I was very pleasantly surprised how well it worked!

I used this product to remove my textured ceilings unfortunately it did not work! It removed the paint very easily where I could scrape. Unfortunately, it did not remove the textured ceilings so only the paint and product was removed from the points that stick out the most. In between the texture bumps is left over product which has been an absolute pain to remove! Water works to wipe it up if you use it right away but since I was hopeful this product would work I let it set in and I can't get it up with water, it only works if I can get into the tiny cracks and scrape it up. Now all I can smell is chemicals in the house and it's been days and I've been spending hours tediously trying to remove the product from the ceiling. I wish I never purchased and used this product.

I started on a big kitchen in a 31 year old house, built in 1989 the heyday of popcorn ceiling application. I used a 6 inch fluffy roller to apply, while holding a plastic rolling pan close underneath the roller catch drips as I rolled (and it drips if you want to apply a thick coat as recommended). I used 1 mil plastic to cover the ceiling, as they recommend so product does not dry out. I used push pins to hold up, then used a broom to press plastic up to ceiling. It was activated after an hour, but we let it stay for 4-6 hours. I tried all kinds of scrapers, but liked a 6 inch putty knife with sharp edge, and a rectangle wash tub held under to catch majority of mess. DEFINITELY put plastic on any floors before you start scaping, even if you plan to catch scraps in a bucket like I did. The scraped popcorn makes a heavy mess, and the wet chunks will stick to the floor. I used a pump sprayer to spray water on the remaining "glue" mess and wiped in with a large sponge. This allowed me to scrape most to dump in trash. Whatever is left on ceiling you wash off with sponge. We will be skim-coating this ceiling, as some of the skim coat was scraped off, but did not damage any of the drywall.I also used on a newly painted smaller ceiling of an entryway. I scraped off after 4 hours. It was a little tougher to get off, and left a lot more residue. But wetting ceiling residue with the pump sprayer, I could scrape residue off easily, then wipe up with a sponge. Looks amazing, will not have to skim coat any of that ceiling. I just ordered 4 more bottles to do 5 more rooms. A couple hundred dollars and lots of sweat equity is definitely cheaper than replacing all the ceilings!!

If you have painted popcorn or some kind of textured popcorn look, don't use this. At least for us we tried the water spray method didn't work. Sanding with 40 grit, still didn't work. Tried this on a portion of the ceiling, it weakend the high points of the texture. Only a few spots it really scraped down to the base layer. It clumps up the material on the ceiling making a huge mess that's very sticky so lay some protection down. But ultimately because the person before us used a spray on popcorn texture that's hard like a rock. The only way around that is to skim coat with all purpose joint compound or take down the drywall and place new drywall. There's a guy on YouTube that explains it. If you have the soft Styrofoam popcorn ceiling, you don't need this, just apply water and scrape with tools. I'm not sure what this is exactly for. Cuz its excessive for regular popcorn, but not effective against textured or painted over popcorn. It also leaves a heavy smell that we hope gets hidden under paint and skim coat. Also the time it takes to apply it, then put saran wrap over it, then wait for it to settle overnight, then scrape, your better off with other options I said above. Save time and money.