Popcorn ceiling - Wikipedia Popcorn ceiling Popcorn ceiling texture close up A popcorn ceiling ( slang ), also known as a cottage cheese ceiling, a stucco ceiling or formally an acoustic ceiling, is a term for a spray - on or paint - on ceiling treatment. It was the standard for bedroom and residential hallway ceilings for its bright, white appearance, ability to hide imperfections, and acoustical characteristics. In comparison, kitchen and living room ceilings would normally be finished in smoother skip - trowel or orange peel texture for their higher durability and ease of cleaning. In early formulations, it often contained white asbestos fibers. When asbestos was banned in ceiling treatments by the Clean Air Act of 1978 in the United States, popcorn ceilings fell out of favor in much of the country. However, in order to minimize economic hardship to suppliers and installers, existing inventories of asbestos - bearing texturing materials were exempt from the ban, so it is possible to find asbestos in popcorn ceilings that were applied through the 1980s. After the ban, popcorn ceiling materials were created using a paper - based or Styrofoam product to create the texture, rather than asbestos. Textured ceilings remain common in residential construction in the United States. See also Artex References Jump up ^ http://www.epa.gov/asbestos/pubs/ashome.html#example Asbestos in Your Home at EPA.com This architecture - related article is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by expanding it. Retrieved from `` https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Popcorn_ceiling&oldid=829611044 '' Categories : Architecture stubs Ceilings Hidden categories : All articles with unsourced statements Articles with unsourced statements from April 2017 All stub articles Talk About Wikipedia Català Español Euskara Edit links This page was last edited on 9 March 2018, at 18 : 15. About Wikipedia

Question: when did asbestos stop being used in popcorn ceilings
Answer: 1978