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Popcorn on your ceilings? In North Carolina it’s usually heavy acoustic texture — sometimes painted over twice. In Rhode Island it’s usually sitting on old plaster. Either way, Patriot Drywall & Plastering goes over it or takes it off, repairs what’s hiding under it, and refinishes a ceiling that looks like it was never textured at all — family-owned, on the job for 37+ years. Covered floors. Sealed vents. Debris gone when we leave.
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Every service below is available across both of our service areas — Rhode Island, Southern New England, and North Carolina.
Living rooms, kitchens, bedrooms, hallways, stairwells
Torn paper, bad tape joints, and old patches exposed after the texture comes off
The double-painted texture that doesn't scrape like the raw stuff
Cracks, loose keys, and sagging fields on older ceilings
Orange peel, knockdown, swirl, skip trowel, or Imperial plaster
Found during removal, fixed before the new finish goes on
Scraping is the part everyone pictures. It’s not the part that decides whether your ceiling looks right when we’re gone.
Most popcorn sits on a layer of paint — some of it was never sealed. When the texture comes off, the face paper on the drywall often picks and tears. Joints that were barely taped show up. Popped nails the texture hid become obvious. And in older Rhode Island homes, taking the popcorn off can reveal a plaster ceiling that needs a real plaster repair — not a layer of drywall slapped over it.
The real work is reading what’s under the texture and deciding patch versus overlay. A cheap scrape with no skim is how you end up with a ceiling that looks worse than the popcorn did.
Popcorn texture installed before the early 1980s can contain asbestos. We don’t treat asbestos — full stop.
If your home’s age raises the question, we’ll tell you to have the texture lab-tested before anyone brings a scraper inside. Testing is a lab sample, not a guess from a photo. If it comes back positive, removal has to follow that state’s rules. We will not scrape a ceiling that hasn’t been cleared.
Rooms go back into service once the finish dries — paint timing depends on the finish, and we’ll give you that at the estimate. Scheduling is built around the house: one room is a different day than a whole first floor.
North Carolina: Charlotte, Matthews, Mint Hill, Huntersville, Cornelius, Davidson, Mooresville, Denver, Troutman, Iron Station, Concord, Kannapolis, Harrisburg, China Grove, Salisbury, Cleveland, Stanley, Weddington, Marvin, Mount Holly, Newton, Maiden, Asheville
Rhode Island & Southern New England: Providence, Warwick, Cranston, Pawtucket, East Providence, Woonsocket, Cumberland, Newport, Middletown, Portsmouth, Bristol, Barrington, North Kingstown, South Kingstown, East Greenwich, Coventry, West Warwick, Johnston, Smithfield, Scituate, Westerly — and surrounding towns
Crews who do this every day of the week, not once a year
On the same crew — the right trade for whatever’s under your texture
Areas protected before the first scraper comes out
Materials chosen for a ceiling that takes paint and stays tight
Clean job sites — debris leaves with us
Matched to the house — not a per-room number pulled off a chart
Our recommendation. Hard, dense, no sanding-dust storm; painters love it because the surface is like glass.
Taping and coating seams and screwheads followed by full skim over the board and light sanding.
Light, even texture that hides minor waves in older framing and matches walls that already have spray texture.
When the house already has the pattern and dead-flat would look like a different room
Don’t see your question here? Our team is happy to give you a straight answer over the phone.
Professional, experience workmanship and straight answers – from a family owned business working for over 36 years in this industry
