Popcorn Ceiling Removal Cost Calculator

This calculator prices the removal of a popcorn ceiling from the rooms it is in. Enter the room sizes and ceiling height, or a total ceiling area, then the rates you have been quoted for scraping, skim coating, painting and masking, and it returns each line, a contingency and a total with a cost per square foot. The same geometry is priced two other ways at once, boarding new drywall over the texture and licensed asbestos abatement, so you can see which route is cheaper. Every rate is a box on the form rather than a national average. Ceilings sprayed before about 1980 often contain asbestos and need a lab test before anything is scraped.

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A trade that measures in metres quotes per square metre, so both follow the one choice. A square metre is 10.76 square feet, so $1.50 per square foot is $16.15 per square metre -- the total comes to the same money either way.
In feet, or in metres if you chose metres above. 1 to 500 ft, which is 0.3 to 152.4 m.
In the same unit as the length.
Used for the wall area that gets masked, and it is why a room with a high ceiling costs more to protect. A blank box uses 8 ft, or 2.4 m on the metric setting.
Wetting, scraping, bagging and a rough clean. The trade usually quotes between one and two dollars a square foot for this on its own, which is 11 to 22 dollars a square metre. Blank uses $1.50 a square foot, or $16.15 a square metre.
Setting the ceiling flat after the texture is off. Set to zero only if you are happy with the ceiling as scraping leaves it. Blank uses $1.25 a square foot, or $13.45 a square metre.
Blank uses $1.00 a square foot, or $10.76 a square metre.
Charged on the floor and the walls, which is what gets sheeted, not on the ceiling. Blank uses $0.15 a square foot, or $1.61 a square metre.
New drywall screwed through the texture into the joists, taped and finished. It costs about what scraping and skimming cost together, so the choice usually turns on two other things: it loses you a quarter or half an inch of ceiling height, and it leaves an asbestos ceiling undisturbed. Set to zero to leave this option out. Blank uses $3.00 a square foot, or $32.29 a square metre.
Only fill this in from a quote for your ceiling, after a test. Leave it at zero and the line is left out rather than guessed.
A single mailed sample is cheap; a full inspection of an older house runs into the hundreds. Put in what you were quoted.
Most quotes assume the rooms are empty.
A ceiling that turns out to be cracked, water stained or painted is the usual reason this gets spent.
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Measurements and Prices In
A trade that measures in metres quotes per square metre, so both follow the one choice. A square metre is 10.76 square feet, so $1.50 per square foot is $16.15 per square metre -- the total comes to the same money either way.
In square feet, or square metres if you chose metres above. 1 to 200,000 sq ft, which is 0.09 to 18,580.6 sq m.
In the same unit as the ceiling area. Leave at zero and masking is charged on the floor only, which is the ceiling area again. A wall area cannot be worked out from a floor area, so it is not guessed.
Wetting, scraping, bagging and a rough clean. The trade usually quotes between one and two dollars a square foot for this on its own, which is 11 to 22 dollars a square metre. Blank uses $1.50 a square foot, or $16.15 a square metre.
Setting the ceiling flat after the texture is off. Set to zero only if you are happy with the ceiling as scraping leaves it. Blank uses $1.25 a square foot, or $13.45 a square metre.
Blank uses $1.00 a square foot, or $10.76 a square metre.
Charged on the floor and the walls, which is what gets sheeted, not on the ceiling. Blank uses $0.15 a square foot, or $1.61 a square metre.
New drywall screwed through the texture into the joists, taped and finished. It costs about what scraping and skimming cost together, so the choice usually turns on two other things: it loses you a quarter or half an inch of ceiling height, and it leaves an asbestos ceiling undisturbed. Set to zero to leave this option out. Blank uses $3.00 a square foot, or $32.29 a square metre.
Only fill this in from a quote for your ceiling, after a test. Leave it at zero and the line is left out rather than guessed.
A single mailed sample is cheap; a full inspection of an older house runs into the hundreds. Put in what you were quoted.
Most quotes assume the rooms are empty.
A ceiling that turns out to be cracked, water stained or painted is the usual reason this gets spent.
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