When it comes to repairing the ceiling in the apartment or in the house, then the following questions are invariably facing the owners: how to get rid of the old whitewash and whether it is necessary to do this at all? It is necessary to delete whitewashing when she completely lost her aesthetic attractiveness, that is, turned yellow, covered with dust, web and dirt. There can be no talk of any “resuscitation” of coating.
Preparation for whitewashing
Before starting work, you need to prepare the floors in your room accordingly, namely, cover them with large pieces of paper or old newspapers that will be found in any house. It is simply necessary to do this, because practice shows that it is impossible to carefully get rid of whitewashing without leaving garbage.
Next, pick up a regular spray gun with water and sprinkle it on the ceiling. The best thing will go if you process a small area of the ceiling with water, and then remove the whitewashing from it with a hard spatula. Having finished with one site, go to another until you completely complete the work. By the way, wet whitewashing is quite easy to remove, so you will not have problems with this. Whitewashing, which flies from under the spatula, is best to “catch” with an ordinary basin that you need to hold in the other hand. It will go faster if you take someone to your assistants.
Removing the old whitewash
When you finish working as a spatula, you can proceed directly to washing the whitewashing. To do this, it is better to use a regular household sponge. Be prepared for the fact that once to walk on the ceiling with a sponge, there will be little, this process will have to be repeated several times. If your plans are to cover the ceiling with water -based paint, then after you finish wash off the whitewashing, grind the surface. It is to save you from excess paint consumption.
In addition, you can remove the whitewashing from the ceiling with the help of old newspapers that just need to be glued directly to whitewashing. After the glue dries, the newspapers carefully come off right with whitewashing. You will greatly simplify your task if you first leave the edges of the newspapers unaccounted.
