Popcorn Ceiling Removal in Niagara Falls
Niagara’s Trusted Professionals
for Popcorn Ceiling Removal & Refinishing
Removing popcorn ceiling can be the refresh your home has been waiting for. Creating a modern look for your home can open up your rooms and bring in a bright finish. At Painters Near Me, we bring you professional popcorn ceiling removal and refinishing while safely working through every detail. Our team works hard to remove imperfections and create a paint-ready finish while treating your home as if it were our own. Providing you with professional services that include a dust-free removal, and clean finishes. From our first consultation to the final cleanup and walkthrough, our team communicates, protects your space, and adds value to your home. At Painters Near Me, this is more than just a project, it’s building a relationship with our community.
Modernize Your Home With Smooth, Updated Ceilings
Although popcorn ceilings were popular for decades, they make today’s homes look outdated and often trap dust and allergens. Painters Near Me specialized in safe, efficient, and clean popcorn ceiling removal to create a modern resurfaced ceiling that will brighten and open up your home.
Why Remove Popcorn Ceilings?
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Popcorn ceilings immediately date and close off your space. By removing popcorn surfaces and refinishing your ceilings, you can create a bright, modern feel to your home with a smooth clean finish. Your new smooth ceilings will get a skim coat of mud, followed by a fresh paint bringing out the natural brightness of each room in your home. This modern look will create appeal for buyers and a current-day design look.
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Popcorn ceilings often trap dust, pollen, pet dander, mildew, and other airborne pollutions. Over time, it becomes hard to maintain and clean these surfaces, leading to a less clean indoor environment. Caring about your home is more than just the surfaces we touch every day, it’s also about focusing on the hard-to-reach places. By removing your popcorn ceiling, you won’t only be creating a smoother, more modern look in your home, you will also be creating a safer environment for your friends and family to come and enjoy.
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Popcorn ceilings create a trap for light, causing your rooms to feel smaller due to the textured surfaces. By removing and refinishing the ceilings, you increase the natural lighting in the room by focusing on reflection rather than absorption.
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Whether you’re planning to stay in your home for years to come or you’re getting ready to sell, popcorn ceilings can be a turn away. You want everyone who enters your home to feel the value, and not have them feeling like it’s older than it really is. By removing your popcorn ceilings, you boost the appeal because you never know when a move may be in the books. A smooth ceiling is more than just an investment, it’s a change that will bring you (or the new buyers) brightness for years to come.
Our Popcorn Ceiling Removal Process
1. Free Estimate
Each project begins with a complimentary quote to provide you with all the information you need before starting the work. Our team will assess the surfaces and determine the correct route for removal. Providing you with a clear quote and step-by-step process is something we value as part of every project – so there are no surprises from start to finish.
2. Protecting Your Home
Before starting your project, we make protecting your home a priority. Our team removes anything possible and covers up flooring and furniture before beginning. We take the time to ensure your home is cared for – from start to finish. Work areas are isolated to ensure the rest of your home stays clean and livable during the project.
3. Safe Removal
Painters Near Me invests in you and your home. With our dust-free Popcorn Ceilings Removal Machine, we remove the texture of your popcorn ceiling without damaging the drywall underneath. The machines used ensures a safe and clean environment while removing the ceiling creating little to no dust clean up after removal.
4. Drywall Skim Coating
As the texture is removed, so is some of your ceiling. To feel that strong hold on the ceiling, we apply two thin coats of high-quality joint compound which creates a perfectly smooth finish. Creating that flawless finish is critical before applying the final layer of paint.
5. Sanding & Priming
Using sanding systems that create little to no dust and top of the line priming products to ensure your project comes out flawless. Sanding and priming the surface is more than just a step, it brings your project finish to the next level.
6. Fresh Paint
We finish our popcorn removal jobs by applying Sherwin-Williams ProMar 400 Flat Ceiling Paint. This provides you with a smooth full coverage look and a non-reflective finish creating that clean and bright ceiling that beautifully compliments any room style.
7. Final Walkthrough
To finish off each project, our team brings you on a walkthrough to ensure all the details are complete and you are happy with the outcome of your project. We want you to be completely satisfied with the outcome and the service we provided you.
Asbestos Testing & Safety
Why Asbestos Matters
Asbestos was a very popular building material used in popcorn ceilings - especially in homes built before 1990. It was previously used for its strength and fire-resistant qualities but also creates health risks when disturbed.
If popcorn ceiling contains asbestos and it becomes disturbed through scarping, sanding or becoming damaged, microfibers may be released into the air. Although these fibers are absent to the eye, they stay airborne for hours – which leads to easy inhalation. Over time, exposure to asbestos can lead to severe health conditions, including:
Lung scarring (Asbestosis) – a chronic lung diseases from prolonged exposure to these fibers leading to scarring of the lung tissue and shortness of breath.
Lung cancer – a potential side effect of prolonged exposure, especially in individuals who smoke or have previous exposure.
Mesothelioma – a type of cancer that develops in the lining of the lungs and abdomen, specifically through asbestos exposure.
Painters Near Me works with certified asbestos testing labs throughout Ontario to ensure all Ontario Ministry of Labour safety guidelines are followed before beginning any project. Because of the serious risk, our top priority is ensuring both you and your family are safe in your home while completing each job legally.
Our Safety Protocol
Your safety is our top priority at Painters Near Me. We have developed a step-by-step process followed strictly across our team to promise you and your family a safe removal.
1. Initial Assessment
When starting your project, our team will assess the ceilings condition, age and recommend professional testing before our work begins. If your house is built before 1990, there is a high chance asbestos was used in your popcorn ceiling.
2. Professional Lab Testing
To complete testing, a small sample of your ceiling is carefully removed and sent to a certified asbestos testing laboratory to determine results. This process is completed in a safe and controlled manner to provide minimal invasion in your home. Test results are provided within a couple business days, providing all the clarity you need before removal begins.
3. Asbestos Free Ceilings
Once we have confirmed that your results are clear, we are able to proceed with our removal process. Your project can be book and completed safely, leaving you with a peace of mind for you and your family’s safety. We will complete the process with dust-free removal, skim coating, sanding and priming, and a premium Sherwin-Williams ceiling paint.
4. Asbestos Present in Ceilings
If your lab results come back positive with asbestos, Painters Near Me does not do the removal process ourselves. This ensures the safety of both you and our team – and we follow all of Ontario’s environmental and workplace safety regulations and laws. This doesn’t mean we can’t help with your project, but instead, the removal will be completed by licensed asbestos abatement contractors who are trained and certified in a safe removal process. Our Painters Near Me team will return after removal to complete the final steps of the process including skim coating, sanding and priming, and a premium Sherwin-Williams ceiling paint.
Why Hire Professionals?
Although removing a popcorn ceiling may seem like a DIY task you can take on, but it comes with many risks that can be costly and hazardous if not done properly. Providing you the peace of mind you need, professionals like Painters Near Me are here to help you handle the project.
❌ DIY Risks
If your house was built before the 1990s and your ceiling has not been replaced, there’s a large chance asbestos or other harmful materials could have been used. Even beginning the project on your own can put you and your home at major risk, releasing fibers into the air you don’t want to be exposed to. Without the proper testing and execution, doing the removal process on your own can take a fast turn into a hazardous situation.✅ Professional Safety Standards
Our team is trained to follow Ontario Ministry of Labour and Occupational Health and Safety guidelines and laws for safe popcorn ceiling removal. Using professional products, barriers for containment, and HEPA filtration systems, we ensure minimal dust and debris to give you the outcome you will not regret.✅ Peace of Mind
When you hire Painters Near Me, we promise you a peace of mind. There will be no questioning in the process with thorough and clear communication every step of the way. Knowing you put a risky project in hands of professionals ensures you the safety and promise of the perfect outcome you desire.
FAQ: Asbestos & Popcorn Ceilings
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Simply looking at your ceiling cannot determine if asbestos is present. Professional lab testing has to be completed in order to determine results.
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Lab fees can vary depending on where the sample is taken for testing, but prices are typically $100-$300 per sample.
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Our team pauses the project and refer you to certified removal experts and leave the removal process up to them. After the process is complete in a safe manner, we will return to finish the project.
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Your Family’s Safety Comes First
At Painters Near Me, we take our customers safety extremely seriously. From the first time we meet to the final steps of your project, we want your process to be stress-free, safe, and transparent. Our team guides you through every step to ensure your home is taken care of – as if it were our own.
By partnering with professionals, we ensure all of Ontario’s Health and Safety Regulations are followed. We don’t just want you to hire us for the job, we want you to put your trust in our hands. Painters Near Me promises you the peace of mind and care your project deserves.
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