re: Wife wants to scrape off and refinish textured ceilings

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assume that is painted? If so it would probably be easier to leave that and float and finish drywall mud over the texture.

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Ours were painted and it came off easy. May have even helped as it cane off mostly in sheets. I may be an outlier though. Best to test it in an inconspicuous area.

That being said, don’t use power tools. The spray and hand scrape method isn’t all that bad but as was said, you’ll probably need to refinish it to a light orange peel at minimum anyway (what we did). Perfectly smooth could be challenging and expensive on a scrape job due to going back over the imperfections. In the end it may not look much more smooth than what you have currently based on that photo.