Prep after removing crown molding

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Foretwoone

Discussion Starter · Jun 21, 2020

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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Foretwoone

Discussion Starter · #3 · Jun 21, 2020

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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Foretwoone

Discussion Starter · #5 · Jun 21, 2020

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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Foretwoone

Discussion Starter · #8 · Jun 21, 2020

It does

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