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

I used 2 jugs of MS Popcorn remover to remove old texture from our bathroom. Product is great. I learned for Ease of Use to apply the 2 coats generously, THICK coats, cover with plastic and go back to scrape softened area not 4-12 hours later as packaging suggests BUT greater than 24 hours later. One patch I left covered for 3 days and it was so easy to remove. There is a finesse to the scraping process. I had much success using a 3” paint scraper and working in a fan-like motion. Areas above raw drywall were a touch harder to remove than areas previously primed or skimmed seams, which fell off in sheets. Product cleanup of warm water is easy. Product has strong artsy, ModgePodge-like odor that is easy to live with weighing against the other choice of choking down drywall dust. I learned a light MIl. Plastic is all that is needed. Cheap drop cloth from dollar store or even cut plastic bags from retail stores for small sections worked the best. My higher mil. Plastic was so heavy I felt obligated to use painters tape so it did not fall off and did not make a difference in this products performance. I found personal success working Max Strip Popcorn remover and the removal process in small 3x 4 sections at a time having several sections softening at different parts of the room at one time. This was easier on back,arms, neck and the mental aspect of a large project to conquer. I would recommend to any person!

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.