Cover the floor with plastic and find a good pair of goggles drips are a fact of life when painting the ceiling.
Ceiling paint to cover water stains.
Follow these steps when covering over a water stain on your ceiling.
Water stains are more common to be found on ceiling.
This product worked extremely well to cover a water stain on drywall.
Most people tend to assume that water stains will simply disappear just by painting over the stain.
If you have a smooth ceiling roll the primer over the water stains using a paint roller with an extension and a inch nap roller cover then let the primer dry for two hours or as instructed.
If your ceiling has a texture you ll find using an aerosol.
Polycell stain stop is a highly pigmented paint which permanently prevents stains reappearing through paint.
No need for a brush just spray the water stain wait until dry and apply a second coat.
It provides one coat coverage over water stains grease nicotine crayons rust and soot.
In any case the best way to eliminate water stains on your ceiling is to fix the damage first.
This means you can still get water stains on your ceiling even if you ve covered the whole surface.
No matter how many times you paint over that stain it will just keep coming back again and again after a few days or weeks.
If you don t have time to restore and cover up the stain here are some alternative ways to remove it without using paint.
Permanently prevents existing stains reappearing through paint.
How to remove ceiling stains remove water ceiling stains.
Zinsser also manufacture a spray paint to cover stains zinsser primer stain killer aerosol perfect for situations where you have a small patch or patches of water stains.
I have some bad news if you were thinking of doing the same.
Water stains on a ceiling are usually caused by roof or plumbing leaks.
Use shellac based stain blocking primer or an equivalent high solids latex primer.
Cover everything though seems to be a fairly heavy paint particle that comes out and i found a light coating on stuff that was 10 or more away.
You need to cover the stains with primer before painting and drywall primer won t do.
Start by finding the cause of the leak and repairing the problem to prevent damage in the future.
Suitable for use on plaster concrete stone masonry plasterboard and wood.