[Foretwoone]

My place has crown molding in every room so I removed it and want to paint the walls and ceilings. It looks like the walls have been painted a few times without removing the molding so there is now a line of paint where the bottom edge of the molding rested. There’s a pretty noticeable lip, probably almost as thick as a dime. I’m guessing from the numerous color changes over the years. How would you smooth that and prep it for paint so that it doesn’t affect the new paint?


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[joecaption]

Got a picture so we can see what your seeing?
No one has a clue if you took the time to cut the paint and caulking line before removing the molding so it did not rip the paper off.
All the old caulking needs to be removed, any loose paper needs to be cut out. any bare areas need to be primed, once dry it's going to take at least three layers of drywall compound applied with an 8" knife, sanded, primed, then your going to end it having to repaint the whole wall to get it to match.
But you now wish you have of left the crown up.

 

[Foretwoone]

There was no silicone on this molding. Came off super easy. It’s really just a perfectly straight line where they makes the bottom of the crown and there’s a lip from the built up layers of paint. I was planning to scrape the lip with a 6” spackle knife and then mud over it but wasn’t sure if that’s the preferred method.

As for the crown molding..... it was excessive lol. Probably expensive but not my thing.

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[mark sr]

I'd scrape what I could, skim over it with joint compound, sand and then texture it to match the wall. I couldn't tell from the pic - is the ceiling texture ok?

 

[Foretwoone]

That picture was taken mid removal of popcorn. We scraped the painted popcorn with a dry method and it left a little texture and then I lightly sanded it. Gave it kind of a knockdown texture. For some reason here in Texas they texture everything including ceilings so we just left it instead of skim coating.


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[mark sr]

Textured ceilings are popular most everywhere. The texture helps to lessen the view of any discrepancies in the ceiling. I like knockdown but detest popcorn - probably because of all the ceilings I've painted over the yrs.

 

[huesmann]

Does the wall texture extend above the paint line?

 

[Foretwoone]

It does


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[mark sr]

The texture above the caulk/paint line will be gone once you skim with j/c.

 

[huesmann]

Maybe you can level off the old paint line with a rasp or something?