How To Scrape Popcorn Ceiling With Shop Vac. Grab a 6-inch spackle knife and duct tape it to the end of your shop vacuum. Place a brush attachment on the end of the extension wand or the vacuum hose nozzle.
So ALONG the wall not towards the wall. After the water has had about 15 minutes to soak in go back to where you began spraying take your putty knife and scrape the ceiling texture right off the ceiling. Grab a 6-inch spackle knife and duct tape it to the end of your shop vacuum.
Turn on the vacuum and suction the spider webs away moving from one side of the ceiling.
Youll probably end up catching the drywall tape and you dont want to disturb that because then youll have to fix it after. Grab a 6-inch spackle knife and duct tape it to the end of your shop vacuum. Tape a larger scraper to a shop vac and go at it. Attach POPeeze to your shop vacuum hose and a pole to make the difficult task of removing popcorn ceilings much easier.
