How to wash the ceiling from whitewash

The start of repair is always troublesome, you have to spend a lot of time to prepare the floor, walls and ceiling. Remove the old whipping from the walls is not so difficult, like from the ceiling. It is especially difficult to prepare the ceiling if he was seeded several times in a row with lime or chalk. How to clean the ceiling from the blots quickly and efficiently? There are a lot of ways to cope with this difficult task.

Despite the fact that there are currently a lot of modern finishing materials, in the houses of "Stalinki" and "Khrushchev", as well as in the private sector there were ceilings with whitewash lime or chalk. If we use modern materials and technologies in repair, for example, install stretch ceilings, then reflect and look for an answer to the question: "How to remove whitewashing from the ceiling" You do not have to, but what if you need to throw the wallpaper? Or will the grandiose repair? Then it is necessary to first remove all the old finishing materials to thoroughly approach the repair.

What is necessary for work

Before proceeding to the most important thing - to remove the whitewash and find a response to the question, how to quickly remove whiten from the ceiling, let's first find out which auxiliary materials and tools will need.

What you need to prepare in advance:

• polyethylene film to store the floor or cover the furniture that remained indoors;
• respirator - As you have to work with a dry whitewash, it is simply necessary to protect your lungs from dust;
• safety glasses - you can go to the building supermarket to purchase everything you need immediately, including - and protective glasses to protect your eyes from dust and garbage;
• kamenka or a special protective hat to protect the hair from dust;
• sprayer to moisturize the working surface. You can take a sprayer for irrigation of indoor plants;
• comfortable clothes and shoes. Of course, in a bathrobe or in a dress on the staircase under the ceiling, you will not close, it is better to wear comfortable sports pants and a T-shirt. Well, if it is not new clothes so that it is not a pity. After removing the whitewash, your clothes will be dirty and dusty, consider it;
• gloves - decide for yourself, you need them or you can do without them. But gloves will help protect the delicate skin of the hands (especially if the weak floor is accepted for work);
• middle sized spatula with a pointed end;
• foam sponge (you can take the old washcloth), pure rags and hot water;
• it will not be superfluous and a small stepladder so that it is more convenient to work. If there are no stepladders, then you can adjust the dining table, just do not forget to turn it on the old tablecloth first, and then wrap with a dense polyethylene.

What is needed to remove whitewash?

Most newbies becomes incomprehensible, why waste time and shoot an old whitewear from the ceiling and wallpaper from the walls? You can save time and immediately start finishing the surface with new building materials. But it will be wrong, especially if you want to paint the ceiling with a rack paint or stick wallpaper. Then I'll have to be patient, to remove the old bliss.

What should I remove lime or chalk from the ceiling and walls? The fact is that the old layer reduces the tensile strength of the new material. And the ceiling is a vulnerable place. Let's imagine: you wanted to update the kitchen, cross the wallpaper and paint the ceiling of the new water-repellent paint. It is good, because the ceiling will always be white and will not turn yellow, even if you often cook. But to improve the adhesion of the new material with the surface, it is necessary to remove the blots and only then proceed to painting. If this is not done, then the paint will go to bed unevenly and the ceiling can even swell in places. This is an extra spending of time and materials.

By the way, you will have to get rid of the old whitewash and in the case when the mold was formed on the ceiling. It is very difficult to fight her, so it is so important that this plot is cleaned by capital until the very foundation.

Even if you want to refresh the ceilings in the house or apartment, it is still desirable to remove the former layer so that the whirlwinds are smoother. Many hostess ignore this rule and arrange general cleaning twice a year, refresh the ceilings in the kitchen and in the bathroom. Simply apply 1-2 layers of a new lime solution over the old one. All is well, the ceiling drops and the whims is kept. But there are a few weeks or even months and on the ceiling in some places there are unsightly yellow sections - fat and soot are eaten into the ceiling, it is impossible to take them. We will have to try to prepare the surface. How to wash off whitewashing from the ceiling? We will get acquainted with the effective methods in more detail.

How to remove whitening from the ceiling

First you need to prepare - it is necessary to remove the furniture, and if it is impossible, then cover with a dense polyethylene film. It will not be superfluous to cover both the floor so that it is not to waste time to wash it away from whitewashing. Believe me, it is a very painstaking job, so it's better not to be lazy and buy several packaging of the protective film. By the way, it will not be superfluous to cover the film and the windows, for this you will need a construction tape with a sticky layer.

How to consider whitening from the ceiling:

1. A common way is to remove the lime layer from the ceiling manually using the tool. By the way, the chalk packers are not so durable as lime and you can quickly consider the layer from the ceiling.
2. First you need to take a sponge, moisten it in water (temperature from +40 ^oC and higher). You can use the pulverizer. The main thing is to abundantly moisten the surface and wipe the ceiling until all chalk is cleaned.
3. If the layer of blots are thick (no matter, chalk is or lime), you need to work with a spatula. By the way, do not attempt to consider whims in a dry way, so you will dust all the room and quickly get tired.
4. Before proceeding with the work, it is necessary to moisten from the pulverizer the ceiling and wait a bit.
5. As soon as the layer of blissing is impregnated, then it will take it much faster with a spatula and easier than dry.
6. Read the spatula at first a small area, gradually moving from the corner to the middle. Thus, remove all the lime spins from the ceiling, and if the sites remained - they must be rich in a porpoil sponge, and then write to the spatula.

This is the easiest and most accessible version, sponge, hot water and a spatula - here are your basic tools.

Tips of professionals

What to do if the layer of blots are too big or in no way it does not work well clean the surface? Then it is worth considering other options that the wizards enjoy.

How to wash the ceiling from the blots:

1. To quickly wash off the plating layer, it is necessary to use not just water, but to prepare a special solution. Take soda (calcined) and a piece of soap, you can economic. Soap must be grate on the grater, we will need 2 tbsp. Soap chips and 10 liters of water. We pour water into a bucket, add soap, mix and put another 5 tbsp. soda. Well mix the solution and proceed to the work.
2. Our actions are as follows: You need to wear rubber gloves to protect the skin, take a rag or sponge, wet it in the solution and wash the step by step the pavement on the ceiling. Useful advice: do not wet the whole sponge in a bucket with a solution, it is better to drop a little liquid into a small container so as not to spoil the dirty sponge all the solution.

Not only soap water will help get rid of the old whitewash. You can prepare a soda solution, salt solution with soda (3 parts of soda and salt) or a mixture consisting of vinegar (1 tbsp.), Bath foam or detergent for dishes, as well as water - 5 liters.

The solution needs to be used immediately after cooking, pour into the tank pulverizer or wet the foam roller and make a pretty moisten the ceiling. Wait 15 minutes so that it is well absorbed and you can proceed to work. By the way, it is allowed to heat the liquid slightly (up to +45 ^oWith a maximum), the winds faster swelling. Then it is removed with a spatula, and the remains are washed off with a rigid brush or sponge.

Just do not rush to immediately apply a solution or hot water immediately to the entire ceiling, work point, moisturize the small area to work more convenient, and then move on. If you have helpers, you can split the ceiling in half and start counting the corner.

There are some more interesting ways that can be applied in action. If you do not want to have around it was dirty and dusty, try another option - wash off the blotter whipping. Not everyone knows about this method, therefore rarely use in their practice.

How to blur the ceiling from whitewash:

• we will apply directly on lime or chalk blotter whistle. Swarm him alone. For this, prepare water and flour. In boiling water we add flour (on a glass of 2 tbsp. Flour). Constantly stirring, bring the mixture to the initial stage of boiling, you will see how quickly it will begin to thicken. All, you can remove a bowl from the plate and cool a little hub (10 minutes enough);
• can be applied with a glue mass with a warm, foam roller;
• wait 10 minutes, after which the spatula is blamed, it will be filmed immediately by the formation.

Please note: when you consider lime from the ceiling with a spatula, then the whimsflower sweeps on your head. So that this is not, it is necessary to make a device: you can attach a tank for collecting garbage to the soldier - a small plastic bowl or a box. Think that you can adapt to the garbage immediately fall into a small container.

How to remove whitening from the ceiling

What else can be done to prepare the ceiling and remove the whitewash? You can apply the old and proven way of our grandmothers - take newspapers or old paper wallpapers. Cooking the holter and paste paper on the ceiling so that the edges of the wallpapers hung on the walls. As soon as the glue will dry out (after 8-10 hours), you can go as follows: just pull the hanging edge of newspapers or wallpaper. To the paper will stick and whitewashes, you will only stay with a ceiling newspaper or wallpaper. Of course, such a method does not guarantee 100% of getting rid of the old lime or chalk, but this method is considered clean, since the whirlwinds will not crumble from the ceiling on you, clothes and the floor. She just sticks to the newspaper / wallpaper. Well, what will remain on the ceiling, it is necessary to consider using a spatula (just do not forget to moisten the area with a sponge moistened in hot water).

If this option is not suitable, then you can buy a special means for removing whiten in the construction store. Apply the adhesive mass (externally, very similar to the housing of home cooking), it is necessary using a foam roller or a wide brush. It is allowed to use the pulverizer.

After applying, you need to wait a few hours until the mixture is completely absorbed and one can only consider the old whipper whipper.

If you started overhaul in the room, then you can not be afraid of dust and garbage and quickly cope with the task, you can apply grinders. Of course, this method is dusty, but fast. You can find materials and tools intended for cleaning surfaces and grinding the ceiling, this is a special grinding machine with a vacuum cleaner, which the stump collects all the dust into a special dust collector. Then it will be not only high quality and fast, but also purely. Only there is one "but", the cost of such equipment is too high and if you do not plan to do this professionally, then there is no need to spend money. There is another option, cheaper - this is the use of a grinder or drill. Instead of drill in an electrical appliance, a metal brush is inserted, which will help to quickly remove whiten from the ceiling.

Regardless of what method you decide to choose, you can check your work as follows: Spend with dry fingers on the ceiling, if there is no chalk or lime on your fingers, it means that you worked well. Now you can proceed to the next stage of repair, just do not forget that before applying a layer of paint or a new whitewash, you need to cover the ceiling by primer. She "takes" all the dust on itself and will reduce adhesion, which means that the flow rate of the new material will be smaller.