Popcorn Ceiling Removal Cost Atlanta: 2026 Per-Room and Per-Foot Ranges

What You Can Plan to Spend

Pricing out popcorn ceiling removal cost in Atlanta for your home? Plan on roughly $1 to $2 per square foot, or about $1,000 to $3,000 per room in 2026. That textured ceiling showed up in Atlanta homes built between the 1960s and the 1990s, and stripping it away leaves your rooms looking clean and current — an update that frequently lifts your home's value.

Per-Room and Per-Foot Ranges

Here is how the work tends to price out. A standard bedroom usually runs $1,000 to $2,000, while a larger living area lands around $1,500 to $3,000. Measured by the foot, that comes to roughly $1 to $2 per square foot. Each of those figures covers the entire job — dampening the texture and scraping it off, troweling a skim coat to level the surface, sanding it flat, then priming and painting — so what you're left with is a finished ceiling rather than a bare one.

What Drives Your Number

Two things move the price most. The first is how the original texture was applied: some scrapes off easily once it is wet, while texture sprayed over paint clings harder and takes more effort. The second is what is hiding underneath. If the builders never taped the drywall joints properly, those seams reveal themselves once the texture is gone and need extra skim-coating to disappear. During your free estimate we check both the texture type and the drywall hiding under it, which keeps surprises from cropping up later.

Asbestos Testing for Older Homes

In any home built before 1980, the responsible first move is testing for asbestos, which tacks on about $200 to $400 to cover lab analysis. Should that test come back positive, certified abatement runs roughly $3 to $7 per square foot and has to be finished by a licensed specialist before our paint work resumes. We will always flag this before any scraping begins.

What's Included and How to Get Your Exact Price

Every ceiling project is handled by our in-house crew — never rotating subcontractors — with a project manager on site each working day, premium paint, a free color consultation, and a fixed written quote you approve up front. Your finished ceiling carries a 5 to 10-year written warranty, and our work holds a 5.0 rating across 135-plus reviews, 250-plus finished Atlanta homes, and the personal oversight of founder Sebastian Thomas. To turn these ranges into your real number, we walk your ceilings in person and write a fixed quote on the spot, free and with no obligation.