Well, we survived! Nick and I met his parents at the house last night around 5:30 and got to work quickly. The prep work took some trial and error at first... The tutorials say to tape the plastic on the wall, close to the ceiling and drape plastic on the floors before wetting the popcorn. What they don't tell you is that said tape loses it's stick when wet and drops all the plastic to the floor! What we ended up doing was spreading out a giant sheet of plastic on the floors and tape it to the wall on all edges, just above the baseboards. It was a messier job but saved a lot of plastic.
The entire project took us just over 6 hours to complete. Our whole house is now popcorn free!
Next on the list is texturing/painting the ceilings. The ceilings are in great condition and don't have a lot of flaws, so Nick's mom suggested that we use a textured paint roller in lieu of spreading around joint compound. It'll save us a lot of time and will be a more subtle look, which is exactly what Nick and I are going for.
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