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Bright living room with a smooth freshly painted vaulted ceiling — popcorn ceiling removal by Roca’s Painters of Mebane, NC
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Careful Popcorn Ceiling Removal in Mebane, NC

Done looking up at that texture? The owner inspects your ceiling, and your rooms are sealed in plastic before any of it comes down.

  • Owner-led estimate, quote the same day
  • Every room sealed in plastic first
  • 1-year workmanship warranty
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Jose comes out himself, and your number arrives the same day.

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Signs Your Popcorn Ceiling Is Ready to Come Down

Popcorn texture was sprayed on to hide flaws in the drywall, and decades later it is often the one dated detail left in an updated room. It holds dust and cobweb shadows that won't brush off, and every water stain on it shows as a blotch you can't blend. None of this is an emergency. Still, if a sale or remodel is coming, dealing with it on your own timeline beats rushing it in the week before listing. Scraping it yourself is a bad bet when you don't know whether the texture contains asbestos, and even clean texture gouges easily, turning a weekend project into a drywall repair.

Warning signs
  • Texture flaking onto floors, beds or counters
  • Yellow or brown water stains that paint won't hide cleanly
  • Cracks, bulges or loose patches in the texture
  • Dust and cobweb shadows that return after cleaning
  • A house sale or remodel stuck at the ceiling
  • No record of an asbestos test on older texture
What's Included

What Our Popcorn Ceiling Removal Includes

Removing a popcorn ceiling means taking the texture down to the drywall and rebuilding a smooth, painted surface. It is slower and messier than painting. Most of our popcorn ceiling removal jobs in Mebane take three to six days, depending on the size of the house and how much prep the rooms need. Jose, who owns Roca's Painters with Laura Lopez, handles every estimate himself, so the person looking at your ceiling is an owner rather than a salesperson. He'll tell you which rooms make sense to do together and what needs to move. He will also tell you whether the texture should be tested before anything is scheduled. Our crews work out of Mebane, and the written quote comes the same day as the visit.

Testing Before Anyone Scrapes

North Carolina's Division of Public Health lists textured ceilings among the common materials that can contain asbestos, and nobody can tell by looking. On an older home, a small sample should go to a lab before removal is booked. If a sample comes back positive, the job changes, and we explain your options before anything is disturbed.

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Sealing the Rooms Off

Prep is the longest part of setup. Floors, walls and furniture are covered in plastic before any texture is touched, and in an occupied home the crew takes extra care around the rooms you still need. Light fixtures and ceiling fans are taken down or bagged. Artwork and electronics are best moved before day one.

Removal and Refinishing

The texture is misted with water to soften it and scraped off in sections. Scraping always exposes what the popcorn was hiding, such as tape seams, nail pops and dents. Those get joint compound and sanding. Where the drywall face is rough, the ceiling is skim coated so it reads flat in daylight from a window. Once dry, the ceiling is primed and finished in flat ceiling paint from Sherwin-Williams, Benjamin Moore or PPG.

Handing the Rooms Back

The plastic comes down and the debris leaves with the crew. Before the job is called finished, you walk every room with us and point out anything that doesn't look right. Leftover ceiling paint stays with you for touch-ups. Our 1-year workmanship warranty covers ceiling repairs, so if a seam we finished cracks inside the first year, we come back and make it right at no charge. Moisture leaks and structural movement are excluded, which means a new stain from a roof leak needs a roofer first. The photos below show what the change looks like room by room.

Before and After: Popcorn Ceiling Removal

Vaulted ceiling with a smooth, freshly painted finish in a Mebane, NC home — popcorn ceiling removal by Roca’s Painters of Mebane, NC
A smooth, freshly painted ceiling.
Dated popcorn ceiling texture before removal — popcorn ceiling removal by Roca’s Painters of Mebane, NC
An older popcorn-textured ceiling before removal.
Protected room with ceiling texture being carefully scraped — popcorn ceiling removal by Roca’s Painters of Mebane, NC
A room protected during ceiling texture removal.
Smooth white ceiling after skim coating and painting — popcorn ceiling removal by Roca’s Painters of Mebane, NC
A smooth ceiling after skim coating and painting.

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Why Choose Roca’s

Why Homeowners Call Roca's Painters for Popcorn Ceiling Removal

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Plastic Goes Up First

Every popcorn job starts with plastic over your floors and furniture. In an occupied home, the crew works around the rooms you still use, so the texture ends up in bags instead of tracked down your hallway.

The Owner Reads Your Ceiling

Jose looks at the texture himself before quoting. If it should be tested for asbestos, you hear that from him at the visit, and not from a crew member halfway through scraping it.

Smooth Means Flat in Daylight

Pulling texture exposes old tape seams and dents. We repair those before primer goes on, because a ceiling that shows waves when sunlight hits it from the side isn't finished.

Quoted on Real Hours

We don't price ceilings by the square foot. Your number reflects how long prep, removal and refinishing will take in your rooms, and it is fixed before the plastic goes up.

Updates on a Multi-Day Job

Across three to six days you get a short update each day covering what finished, what's next and when the crew arrives. You always know which rooms are off-limits tomorrow.

Our Process

How Our Popcorn Ceiling Removal Works

1

Owner Visit and Quote

Jose inspects the ceilings, checks whether testing makes sense and notes what has to move. Your written quote, built on labor time, arrives the same day.

2

Seal Off the Rooms

Day one is containment. Plastic goes over every surface below the ceiling, fixtures are handled, and work areas are closed off from the rooms you're still living in.

3

Scrape, Repair and Smooth

Softened texture comes off in sections. Seams, nail pops and rough patches then get compound and sanding until the ceiling is flat.

4

Prime, Paint, Walk Through

Primer and flat ceiling paint go on, plastic and debris leave with the crew, and you walk every room with us before the job is signed off.

Pricing

How Much Does Popcorn Ceiling Removal Cost in Mebane?

We price popcorn ceiling removal by the time the job takes, not by square footage, so you get a fixed quote after Jose sees the rooms rather than a number pulled from a chart. Four things move that number the most:

Your quote covers the plastic prep, removal, repairs, primer, ceiling paint and final walkthrough. Debris removal is included too. Asbestos testing is not part of the quote, and neither is repainting the walls, though we can price the walls at the same visit. The price is set before work starts, with no hourly add-ons once the crew is in your house. Projects of $2,000 or more currently qualify for $250 off.

See what affects popcorn ceiling removal cost in NC

$250 OFF

On projects of $2,000 or more

What changes the price

  • Ceiling area and how many rooms are done together
  • Ceiling height, vaulted sections and stairwells
  • Furniture that stays in place and needs protection
  • How much drywall repair is waiting under the texture

Quoted separately

  • Structural ceiling repair or replacement of damaged drywall sections
  • Wall painting beyond the ceiling, quoted as interior painting
  • Testing or remediation of any material other than standard drywall texture, quoted separately if needed
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Where We Serve

From our home base on Giles Street in Mebane, we bring family-owned quality to homes across Alamance and Orange counties and out to Durham, Chapel Hill, and Raleigh.

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Your Questions

Popcorn Ceiling Removal FAQ

Most popcorn ceiling removal jobs take three to six days. The spread comes from the size of the house, how many rooms are done at once, and how much repair the drywall needs after the texture comes off. Prep runs longer than on a painting job because every room is sealed in plastic first. Jose gives you a day-by-day expectation at the estimate, and a short daily update keeps you current once work starts.

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