This one was interesting. Haven’t come across a texture like this before.
This texture was created with medium popcorn texture, mixed 50/50 with joint compound, and then swirled. Stacy was better at this than I was.



Dust Containment


Update 8/15/25:
After the repairs were made, we spot primed the patches and then painted the main stairwell ceiling twice. Because the ceiling texture used popcorn, we had to wait about 2 hours between coats or risk damaging the existing texture.




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