I’m a General Contractor and have a bunch of Festool tools because of the dust control system. The tools are expensive but not putting dust everywhere in an occupied house or business is priceless, not to mention the health of my guys.
I'm currently sanding and skimming a painted heavy stomp textured ceiling. Using a power sander (not a planex) . It's doing it, but it is slow going. Is this something the planex excels at? I didn't expect this stuff to sand this hard
Wow! I did not expect to see instant results like that. I’m actually here because I’m doing some research on this since I plan on buying one. How well do you think it’ll work on what’s called a stipple textured finish ceiling?
I can do the exact same thing with my Dewalt sander and a Rigid shop vac for a fraction of the price. I also use a dust separator to save the filter on the shop vac. I can buy all this including two dewalt batteries, the dust sperator and the extra hoses and extra sand paper for less than the price of the festool sander alone.
Where can you purchase the Festool Planex 2.0. Can you put the details on where to purchase everything you used (including the sand pads) in the video description? Thanks this was extremely helpful!
I own some Festool items and they are incredibly well engineered. Have you tried one of the (non-Festool) dust cyclones to collect the material removed? Those vacuum bags are not cheap, and some of us don't have the auto-clean feature on our vacs. Thanks for such an informative episode.
Textured ceilings are not done to the standard that a flat ceiling is done, so you will probably have to skim coat it to fix all the imperfections that are left on the textured/popcorn ceilings. The whole point of textured ceilings is to hide shoddy workmanship and save the company money.
Have you any experience with the sphir 36 grit sheets? I have a small job coming up with some horrendous looking textured walls that have a hard gloss paint over it and I'm not sure how hardcore I should go with the discs, especially when that saphir is much more expensive and things take two weeks to get where I live. Great job btw!
Currently I am having great success with 60 grit Granite and a light once over just to knock down the high points of the texture rather than trying to take it all the way to the paper which abrades the paper anyway. Then I roll on a coat of thinned all purpose mud and getting great level five result using a 30 inch Level 5 brand knife. Then I go back to the 9 inch sander for a light once over using 220 grit just to be sure that all the knife edge marks , if any are eliminated. This method has been giving me really great results with minimum effort. And , I am using a cheap knock off sander, not a planex.
@@frankchordas7456 I ended up ordering 24 grit saphir and 80 grit granite. There are some really bad patch jobs on the textured wall so I'm going to use those as my test areas and if it comes off okay, I'm going to do the whole wall. Not sure how the corners will be if I cant get in there with the planex though. A sturdy scraper maybe? It's also connected to a smooth finish transition I'll have to blend that really well. I happened to buy a used 24" tomahawk so I'm hoping that will be the ticket!
@@strawberryme08 it worked up until a point. I had like large bumps to take down on some stairwell walls and this would take down the high spots quick with no problem but that last little bit refused to go down. Which wouldn't have been too bad if it wasn't a glossy hard paint that remained. I did one round of the 24 grit pad and then one round of the 80 grit. It took me 3 full skim coats plus touch-ups to get everything looking smooth which is one more than I was hoping ahah. Despite the extra work, I still think it was my best option, just wish there was some kind of attachment or accessory for corner sanding!
What’s the cost for this set up ? Would like to star up a popcorn removal business. Just go round and remove popcorn from ppl ceiling. Can it remove nock down too?
The ceiling on my grandparents house is really thick swirl. We want to buy it but we are trying to figure out what to do about the ceiling. We could get it re dry walled but man that is pricy there had to be another option. It I’m not sure this would work with the thick swirls they have in 1979 ish house. Any thoughts of this would work? One room has cracked ceiling and that room connects to the dining room and kitchen and halls etc :/
That Festool Planex sander works good when you do a smooth finish wall? When the disk is spinning and you are about to apply it to the wall it doesn't cut on the surface or is there any way to avoid that?