If you are sanding a popcorn ceiling wet the ceiling with water using a garden sprayer.
Sanding a wood ceiling.
In order for the stain to work it needs to be able to penetrate the wood completely.
The problem with refinishing a wood ceiling is that when you sand the wood you get a face full of wood dust and particles.
To speed up the sanding process i used my orbital sander and went over the entire ceiling paying particular attention to smoothing out all my wood fill.
Tutorial time my fellow adventurers.
When we first sat down to design our home we knew we wanted some exposed wood beams in the architecture somehow.
With two sanders you can put both hands to work and well sand twice as fast duh.
Sanding wood can get boring but you can finish this tedious chore in as much as half the time and with better results if you know a few tricks.
Start with a 4 foot 1 2 m area so the ceiling does not dry before you get to it.
This is the sanding tutorial where i go into the details about the do s and don ts of sanding your fresh ceiling.
Here s how the ceiling looked after the wood fill but before sanding all the darker spots are the wood filler pre sanding.
Do not saturate the ceiling but wet it thoroughly.
The good news is that you can refinish your wood ceiling with minimal sanding and still end up with a high quality result.
While it has certainly been a lot of work we are glad we took the time to do these things now versus later.
For the last couple weekends the latest project has been finishing rough cut cedar beams for our living room ceiling.