 so i think once you get the spider webs and things off of it you might be better off just painting it and giving it a fresh coat to just you know sort of freshen up the ceiling space a little bit but if you do decide to paint the popcorn ceiling you have to get a very specialized roller it looks like a um it's a foam roller that has like a spiral cut to it and that will open up to sort of accommodate the popcorn ceiling texture if you use a regular roller