Stucco ceilings suck.

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The entire condo has stucco ceilings. And for the most part it's OK, the stucco is the typical fairly-easy-to-paint variety. But in the kitchen there's a different type, which crumbles as soon as you touch it. So painting takes forever, since the roller gets covered in stucco almost instantly. I was getting about four square feet per hour painted. And that's just the bad first coat.

How to make a big mess: decide the loose stucco's gotta go, and scrape the entire ceiling with a putty knife. Goodness what a mess. The ceiling is better (I hope), but so much for the nice clean anything. :)

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"Real" stucco is meant to be painted, but it soulds like the stuff on your kitchen ceiling was the "spray-on" variety, which is what was on our walls. It's evil crap.

If I remember 70's/80's style guidelines correctly (and I'm not suggesting I do), stucco ceilings were generally restricted to bedrooms, livingroom, halls and the like. Kitchens and bathrooms were rarely stuccofied. Maybe the previous owners just decided they wanted stucco everywhere and stuck you with this problem. No pun intended.