Christabel Duah
For any fans of HGTV, you know just how badly popcorn — aka acoustic — ceilings went out of style on their popular shows. So when the network gave those with slightly modern tastes a DIY method to get rid of their textured ceilings, some people were surprisingly not fans.
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The handy video shows that all enterprising home builders need to do to rid themselves of the prickly pattern is mist their ceilings with warm water, attach a large drywall knife to a portable dry/wet vacuum, scrub and voilà .
Some people cheered the video — Facebook user Mia Pisnell asked why the design was ever a thing, writing, “Who wants to move into a house where you have to constantly fear your balloons popping on the ceiling.”
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Many more viewers, however, pushed back at the video for suggesting the process was so simple.
Rafaela Valadares wrote, in part, “I’m in the business and I know for fact it’s not that clean and easy to remove it … The ceilings will have imperfections that you need to fix it, or it will look poorly finished. It’s not just removing, sanding and painting.”
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Another user, Berry Ockinher, pointed out the likelihood of asbestos lurking underneath the old construction.
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While plenty of people scoffed at the network’s quick-and-easy claims, some rejected the video for implying that their popcorn ceilings were terrible in the first place.
“Just because [popcorn ceiling’s are] not the way to go now, doesn’t mean my home is a POS because of them. I get really tired of everyone acting as if they are the most horrid thing on earth. Good Lord, there are starving people in America,” said a frustrated Gayle Smith.
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Who knew popcorn ceilings were so divisive!
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