I scraped off my popcorn ceilings.... Do I prime before or after skim-coating ? I've read both opinions...
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Benefits for doing the extra prime ??
Skim coating and Priming ceiling...
Apr 30, 2004
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As a follow up I found a great site about skim-coating. There's even an instructional video of sorts on the site.
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Their magic trowel skim-coating tool looks very helpful.
The pre-skim-coating prime is needed for surfaces that are heavily damaged or questionable such as deep gouges, wallpaper damage, etc.
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