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How To Remove Accoustic (Popcorn) From Your Ceilings Once And For All  
by Donald Thomas
When I first started out in the home improvement business way back in 1984, Ronald Reagan was president, Boy George was making hits, Chevrolet’s Z-28 and Rally Sport was in style and so was acoustic (popcorn)ceilings. People just loved it and sometimes those acoustic ceilings would be sprayed with silver and gold looking glitter at the homeowners’ request. It was the craze all across the nation.

That was almost a quarter of a century ago and times and styles have certainly changed since then. Ronald Reagan is no longer with us and Chevrolet no longer makes Camaros, Boy George is now an afterthought and acoustic (popcorn) ceilings are viewed more as a curse than a craze.

Yes, times have certainly changed and for the better many would think. And when it comes to home improvement a lot of great changes have taken place and new exciting innovative changes have been implemented. Thanks to the ever changing technology that has made life so much better for us all…at least that’s certainly how I feel about it.

But unfortunately there are some artifacts that still linger on with us today and some are down right troubling to say the least. I have gotten many calls from irate homeowners who are just about to explode because of the condition of the ceilings in their home. Popcorn ceilings that have not aged gracefully and looks terrible are the scorn of many desperate homeowners.

White ceilings that have turned to a faded out maze color with dirt and insect bile stuck on it, and if that is not enough to ruin your day you look up again only to witness that much of it has already fallen to the floor, leaving empty patches that reveal even more dirt and stains. It’s enough to make you want to scream. But don’t, I’m going to instruct you on how to remove all that stuff from your ceilings once and for all. And the great part about it all is that it is something most homeowners can do themselves. All you need is the right information and the desire to get it done. So let’s get started.

I have been spraying on and removing acoustics/popcorn since 1984 and I have gained some valuable knowledge and experience over the years. I’m going to share this knowledge and information with you in hopes that it will relieve you of this problem and at the same time help save you a considerable amount of money.

PREPARATION

Removing popcorn/acoustics from your ceilings is really a messy job. This type of work has to rank #1 when it comes to ranking messy work. With that said let’s begin your project in earnest. First, remove as much as you possibly can from your immediate work area. Be sure and cover the furniture, drape the walls with plastic coverings and be sure to protect your floors with drop cloths that are made of durable fabric that will not allow anything to soak through. Remove window treatment, cover windows, doors and everything else that you think is valuable enough to be protected.

Make sure all electrical outlets in the room are covered and by all means make sure there are no exposed electrical wires! If you were unable to remove large items like tables and large chairs make sure they are covered and covered well. I will cover items three and four times just to make sure they are adequately covered. It’s just the right thing to do to protect us from potential lawsuits and legal issues.

Now that everything is covered and I mean everything, let me just say this as a word of caution. Acoustics/popcorn consist of asbestos! Asbestos have been proven to cause cancer. It has carcinogens that could prove to be fatal to humans and animals. If you choose to remove acoustics/popcorn from your ceilings by sanding or even dry scraping, you could open the door for all kinds of lawsuits and litigation that could possibly wipe you out financially.

POPCORN REMOVAL TECHNIQUE

Avoid sanding at all cost and remove it the safe and efficient way. All you have to do is purchase an inexpensive pump up sprayer from your local hardware store and fill it up with water. Spray the ceiling liberally but do not over saturate it because too much water can cause drywall damage and that can prove to be very expensive. So try and move the wand quickly and systemically to ensure equal coverage on the ceiling. Allow the ceiling to remain wet for about ten to fifteen minutes before you begin to scape off the acoustics.

Use a six inch or larger drywall knife to remove it. Note how easily the stuff falls to the floor once it has been thoroughly soaked. You really don’t need to apply a lot of excessive pressure. Just gently use the drywall knife to remove it and try not to gouge the drywall with the blade. Take your time and methodically cover every square inch of your ceilings employing this technique.

Once all the popcorn has been successfully removed from your ceilings, allow it to dry. And if there were some areas where the popcorn was stubborn and refused to come off; just reapply more water carefully and wait ten or more minutes before attempting to scrape it off. It will eventually come off just continue to work at it but do not saturate the drywall with water. Patience is the key to removing popcorn from your ceilings without causing further damage to your drywall.Learn More

Custom seat covers are the best, easiest, most efficient, and cheapest ways to enhance the environment inside your car. Most people tend to ignore the proper care for their car interiors including the seats. As a result car seats suffer severe damage and look unpleasant.

If you want most out of your vehicle, adequate care for the car interiors is necessary. Getting the quality seat covers is one of the most important aspects of your car care regimen. If you get the quality seat covers, you can improve the quality of your driving experience.

The fun and pleasure of having clean and charming car interiors is obvious. The quality of seat covers determines the quality of protection. Getting the quality seat covers is relatively cheap as well. Once the original seats are damaged, it will cost you dear. If you get the quality seat covers, that will prevent any possible damage.

Thanks to the manufacturers of repute, there are varieties of affordable seat covers available. These quality seat covers are relatively cheap than that of changing your original upholstery. However, in order to get the desired protection of your car seats, you need to select the most suitable seat covers.

Seat covers differ according to the car model and make. Custom seat covers are designed according to your car model. Manufactured keeping the specifications of your car in mind, custom tailored set covers offer perfect fit. Therefore, whether you are looking for Audi seat covers or Camaro seat covers; Mercedes Benz seat covers or Porsche seat covers; there are seat covers for every car and model.   
You can personalize the interiors of your car as well. There are several suppliers that offer customized look and feel for your car seats. The custom fit seat covers are available in varieties of colors and patterns.

Seat covers differ in material used as well. Since different fabric has different capabilities and features, when it comes to get perfect seat covers for your car, know your requirements first. Once you have defined your needs and interests, you are game for the exciting experience.

Books, tuition, and auto insurance are some of the highest expenses that students have to meet in the course of their studies. For the auto insurance there are a number of factors that determine the sum that will be required for payment. These factors include aspects like garage location, driving record, the gender, and the age. With all these in mind it may seem that getting the cheap auto insurance will be an uphill task. There is no need for concern if you do the things described below.

To begin with, students have to ensure that they learn safe driving and that they stay away from substances of abuse as much as they can – living clean is the name of the game. It is quite simple to maintain a clean driving record by paying attention to speed limits and all other driving regulations and laws. Avoiding drugs and alcohol is the best way to stay free of DUIs and DWIs. Any negative action only serve to inflate your insurance premium almost instantly and you will have a hard time getting the rates down for a couple of years.

The next thing to do is to be a good performer in class – your excellent grades will make life much simpler for you. Insurance agents require actual proof that your grades are exemplary in order for you to be granted the discounted auto insurance rates. For this reason, your average grade needs to be a B or higher.

Another good and advisable thing to do is to make the correct choice of car model. Sure, you may love the flashy Camaros and Mustangs but these cars will only inflate your insurance. As a student your car should be somewhat dull so as not to attract the attention of car thieves.

It will be better for you if you have a high deductible. This will ensure that you make up to 40% savings on the required insurance premium. Last but not least, make good use of the internet to find the best rates especially on reputable comparison websites.

There comes a point in your power buildup where you may consider adding nitrous oxide injection to your supercharged car. This point typically coincides with reaching a level of performance that means increased investment and diminishing returns from your supercharger. For example, my car comes from the factory with a 5th generation Eaton MP45 supercharger. This supercharger is limited to about 230hp worth of flow rating and so no matter what I do with bolt-on upgrades on my engine, my peak horsepower will not exceed 230hp limit because that is the point at which the supercharger becomes the bottle neck in my system.

As we’ve talked about in previous articles there is still the option of porting the factory supercharger for a 10 to 15% gain in capacity (which in this case would be another 23 to 35 horsepower). There is also the option of retrofitting a larger supercharger such as the Eaton M62 to gain potential up to over 300hp depending on the final choice of a supercharger.

This modification path (porting or replacing the factory supercharger) can prove to be complex and costly, especially if the supercharger is integrated into the intake manifold (and possibly an air to water intercooler) as the case is with many factory supercharged cars.

A possible viable solution for this situation is to use nitrous oxide injection to supplement the power delivery when racing, and being satisfied with a reliable lower powered car when the nitrous is off and we’re not racing.

The reason why nitrous oxide (N2O) becomes a great power adder is twofold:

1- Nitrous is cheap as far as horsepower per dollar goes, and especially in the situations where we’re already supercharged and so will only be using it on the rare occasions when we do hit the track.

2- Nitrous oxide is a great ‘chiller’ as it comes out of the bottle at a temperature of negative 127*F and is capable of cooling the overall supercharged air charge mixture by over 100*F as reported by enthusiasts, this is an additional temperature reduction over the effects of whatever intercooler you have fitted. This in-fact makes nitrous a great proposition for cars that have already maxed out their superchargers, where the supercharger is running at peak rpms and producing very high outlet temperatures. The nitrous oxide injection can effectively boost the thermal efficiency of the supercharger when it is most stressed out and give us a nice, cool, and dense mixture.

3- Nitrous oxide fuel delivery is fairly straight forward to setup and to tune, especially on newer model cars with return-les fuel systems, or difficult to crack computers that make it difficult to upgrade (and properly tune) a much larger supercharger setup. Nitrous oxide fuel delivery can be set-up totally independently from the OEM ECU and fuel system and thus makes nitrous a possible application for German cars with stubborn computers.

4- This is a racer technique… most cars seem to perform better during the winter months because the air is cooler, horsepower is elevated, and the tracks although cold, can be prepared for traction and will heat up enough during the night to allow for traction and to give people the ability to exploit the cold dense air to post their best times of the year. As the weather gets warmer, traction increases because the asphalt is warm and sticky, but horsepower is reduced due to warmer, less dense air. Typically racers find that their cars vary in their quarter mile performance by as much as a half a second between their summer tune and their winter tune, especially if you’re using a supercharger or turbocharger that compresses (and further heats) the incoming air.

The solution to on-track consistency, racers have found, is to combine the use of nitrous oxide (which is summer friendly) with forced induction (superchargers and turbochargers) which are winter friendly. In the summer time, the outside temperature is high, and so the nitrous bottle pressure is maintained at a high level above 1100 psi. This allows for a generous nitrous flow rate under the sustained pressure (even without a bottle heater) which gives great summer performance for nitrous assisted cars. While in the winter, the outside temperatures drop significantly, the nitrous in the bottle contracts and the bottle pressure drops, subsequently, the nitrous flow rate drops and nitrous assisted cars show worse performance in the winter times.

The complete opposite is true for supercharged cars that produce great horsepower in the winter from compressing cool dense air, and poor horsepower in the summer heat. When you combine these two power adders you get pretty flat and consistent horsepower production year round because the supercharger shines when the nitrous is weak, and the nitrous shines when the supercharger is weak, and thus together, they give consistent power deliver year round.

Pre-cautions:

Now we have to consider that nitrous oxide is an oxidizer and thus not only does it increase the amount of air and fuel combusting in the cylinder, but it also produces a faster moving flame front due to the oxidizer properties of the nitrous oxide. This means that additional timing retard, great octane fuel, and possibly colder spark plugs will be required to run spray on a supercharged car. Furthermore, because of its cooling effect, a 100hp shot on a supercharged Camaro can very easily put down OVER 120 rear wheel horsepower of additional power. This means that the ‘out of the box’ jetting of a nitrous kit may not be adequate on a supercharged car and you’d have to make sure to monitor and possibly increase the fuel jetting to match the final horsepower figure of your car). Last but not least, if you’re running a 500hp supercharged car with an additional 120hp of nitrous oxide injection, then you must make sure that your fuel delivery (fuel pump and fuel lines) are able to flow the total amount of fuel required to deliver 620hp.

Applications scenarios:

1- You have a car like mine, a 2005 C230 kompressor that comes with a 230hp limited Eaton MP45. ECU on the car is a Siemens ECU that very few people know how to tune, and the fuel system uses a return-less setup with an in-tank fuel pressure regulator. With this kind of setup all forms of dry nitrous injection are out of the question because we can neither compensate for fuel through flashing the factory ECU, nor can we elevate fuel pressure during the nitrous injection because the fuel pressure regulator is in-accessible….

Recommended kit:

A wet nitrous injection kit that injects both fuel and nitrous oxide from the injection nozzle.

Injection location:

After the supercharger, after the intercooler, and into the intake manifold of the car.

Maximum recommended injection:

25% of the original total power figure which corresponds to around a 50 hp shot of nitrous on our example.

Expected final horsepower:

60 to 65 wheel horsepower and possible about 130 ft-lbs of additional torque!

2- You have a car that has an accessible fuel pressure regulator, or an ECU that can be re-flashed for nitrous oxide or a ‘dual tune’ setup. In this case it is recommended to use a dry nitrous kit for two reasons:

First: Dry kits are safer on supercharged cars (as long as the fuel delivery through the injectors or raised fuel pressure is adequate) because they hold a reduced chance of intake backfires because the intake manifold is dry of fuel.

Second: Dry nitrous injection contains no fuel, and so we don’t need to worry about fuel falling out of suspension from the injected air. This means that we no longer have to spray the nitrous right before the intake manifold and we now have the option to move the point of injection much farther back. Spraying nitrous BEFORE the intercooler, right after the supercharger gives the nitrous stream more time and more contact with the compressed air coming out of the supercharger which results in more cooling and further increased horsepower.

Recommended kit:

A dry nitrous injection kit that injects only nitrous oxide from the injection nozzle.

Injection location:

After the supercharger, before or after the intercooler and not necessarily right at the intake manifold of the car.

Maximum recommended injection:

25% of the original total power figure which corresponds to around a 50 hp shot of nitrous.

Expected final horsepower:

70-75 wheel horsepower and possible about 130 ft-lbs of additional torque!

3- You have a car that has an accessible fuel pressure regulator, or an ECU that can flashed for nitrous oxide or a ‘dual tune’ setup. You also want to make as much horsepower as possible from your nitrous…

In this case it is recommended to use a dry nitrous kit injecting before the supercharger. As we mentioned in our articles on twin charging (combining turbochargers with superchargers for added performance), when two ‘chargers’ are chained in series where one charger feeds the next, then the two pressure ratios of the charger combine because the second charger compresses air that is already compressed by the first. For example two turbochargers set for a 1.5 pressure ratio (or 7 psi of boost), running in sequential mode will result in a final pressure ratio of 2.25 bar (or 18psi of boost) which is more than the ‘expected’ 14psi that is the sum of the two boost levels.

Similarly, injecting nitrous oxide before the supercharger, delivers already compressed air. This is true weather we are talking about nitrous being compressed because it has twice the oxygen concentration as normal air or we’re talking about the nitrous cooling and compressing the incoming air. The final amount of compression observed by the supercharger inlet will vary depending on the ratio of incoming air to the size of the nitrous shot, and can result in an increase in boost of between 0.5 to 2.5 psi!

This boost increase is in addition to the power increase of the nitrous oxide injection and so it can be an additional 5 to 25 hp.

Recommended kit:

A dry nitrous injection kit that injects only nitrous oxide from the injection nozzle.

Injection location:

Before the supercharger inlet.

Maximum recommended injection:

25% of the original total power figure which corresponds to around a 50 hp shot of nitrous.

Expected final horsepower:

75-100 wheel horsepower and possible about 160 ft-lbs of additional torque!

Things to avoid:

1- No matter where you setup the nitrous injection, make sure not to spray nitrous into your MAS air flow sensor or your intake air temperature sensor. These temperature dependant sensors, tell the ECU to advance the timing in colder conditions. As we mentioned earlier, nitrous is an oxidizer that increases the speed of travel of the combustion event and thus requires maintained (if not retarded) ignition timing compared to a supercharged only setup. Avoid spraying on these temperature sensitive sensors to prevent accidental timing advance from occurring.

2- Avoid spraying a wet kit (fuel) before your supercharger, as the wet fuel mist will damage the supercharger rotors and strip their coatings.

3- Make sure you check your air fuel ratio on the nitrous and don’t stick to the ‘out of the box’ air to fuel settings with the kit. For example an extra 2.5 psi in your intake may or may not be compensated by your stock ECU and so depending on how well the ECU reacts you will have to adjust the fuel jetting on the nitrous kit.

When planning your wedding day, one of the most important elements are your wedding pictures and videos. These items will cost you a lot of money, and you will want to make sure you are capturing the best images. With all of the different themes and styles of weddings that are common these days, one way to set yourself apart is by having a unique wedding car.

There are many wedding car transport companies that can provide you with access to vehicles that are normally reserved for the wealthy. You can typically hire the cars for the day or for the weekend. There are many different types of vehicles that you can choose from such as a classic muscle car like a Mustang, Camaro, or Corvette. For expensive cars, you could rent a Rolls Royce, Bentley, Ferrari, Lamborghini and many more. You can even go ultra classy and have a horse and carriage in your wedding.

No matter what type of wedding car hire you choose, you need to make sure you are choosing the right company and vehicle. There are plenty of wedding car companies that provide their customers with top notch service and access to quality vehicles. However, there are some wedding car transport companies that have a bad reputation, but you can easily avoid them by searching the Better Business Bureau website.

A great way to locate a quality wedding car company, is to talk to your friends and colleagues about any recommendations they may have. Referrals are the best way to locate a vehicle and can usually lead to a discount. Another way to locate a vehicle company is to attend the next bridal show in your area. These shows not only have vendors who can supply anything for your wedding, but also have quality wedding car hire companies. At the show, you can see a list of the vehicles in their fleet and they may even have some of them right there for you to try out. The company may even offer you a special price for booking early at the show.

With price being a factor in the type of vehicle you choose, you will need to shop around for the best deal. You may find that you can get a better price on a different car than for your first choice, which is important when you want to stay within your budget.

Including a wedding car in your pictures or wedding video, is a great way to create the lasting memories you are looking for. You will be able to have the wedding of your dreams.