i was in 290 and one of my teachers was talking about cottage cheese ceilings, but was referring to the wrong type of ceiling - the grid kind which are common in offices, schools, & hospitals, where you can push out panels of the ceiling and hang stuff between the framework and the panel. i thought maybe i was wrong about what cottage ceilings were but alas i google and i am not wrong.
i don't really like cottage cheese or "popcorn" ceilings because they really freak me out and make me feel uncomfortable, although I can get used to them. people say i have a minor case of claustrophobia and these ceilings dont help that at all. im also freaked out by the fact that a lot of them have asbestos. in my old house, the one i lived for in over 18 years of my life or whatever, a lot of the ceilings were "cottage cheese." and in my apartment that i live in now, (the pad, conquest student housing), they are "cottage cheese" as well. so basically, i'm used to the ugly crap, but they still give me the heebee-geebies.
well, after verifying what exactly cottage cheese ceilings were using google, i found a link to a blog on google, and there was this deriding entry about how much cottage cheese ceilings suck, and i found this comment to that blog entry, that involves film (hence why i post it in this blog)
"My favorite cottage cheese ceiling film moment:
In Raising Arizona, when HI raises his fists over his head in a ready-to-conk-you-on-the-head-wrestling-move and accidentally scrapes his knuckles on the popcorn/cottage cheese ceiling.
Now that’s pain. "
Now, I haven't seen the movie, but I know from personal experience, the cottage cheese ceilings dont hurt when you scrape them. But that's what makes the idea of the scene so comical for me because the ceiling looks so damned ominous and dangerous looking that u wouldn't be surprised if it could easily rip off your knuckles or consume your hand like the blob if you were to attempt a frustrated, rebellious punch at it.
I dont really understand the purpose of such ceilings. They're ugly, horrifying, unpleasant, and worse of all, if you hit it, it literally sheds off. But unfortunately for me, I have to continue to live with the poop. I think i've had too many a nightmare of eating cottage cheese in my sleep that next time i look for a place to live, the absence of a cottage cheese ceiling will be mandatory.
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I cant believe I just made this post without posting anything about my most personal experiences with cottage cheese ceilings! In my apartment, in the bedroom, there is this patch in the ceiling. When we first moved in to the place, the management was like ooooo, it's fine, it's nothing. Then of course when it started raining it started leaking. So over the course of many many months, they've had to redo the patchwork in the ceiling a few times.
To redo cottage ceiling, all they really do is spray stuff on there and manipulate it a bit. That's it. That's all cottage cheese ceiling is. But the last time they redid my ceiling in the bedroom, they had to do like a massive job, and even though they had a hugemongous amount of plastic covering a lot of the room, i still got a lot of sprayed cottage cheese all over my stuff in my room. (the workers who were spraying the cottage cheese on the ceiling were absolutely drenched in it by the time they were done) Good thing that after it hardens, you can just flick/scrape it off or else I'd be quite angry. But considering how easy something is to scrape off, I wouldn't want that on my ceiling. So my advice to all is... don't buy/rent a place with cottage cheese ceiling! Thanks for listening.
-Andrew
Posted by Andrew Corpuz | January 30, 2007 11:18 AM
Posted on January 30, 2007 11:18