Sooo I'm pretty sure my house has lead paint

[Capt Caveman]

Originally posted by: Xylitol

Originally posted by: Capt Caveman
Please educate yourself on lead paint. Cracking, peeling will not release any lead into the air. As long as you don't eat it, there is no issue.

I don't mean cracking / peeling is gonna kill me (That's just the start of the deterioration of the paint in the house). I'm saying that the fact that there's some paint dust in the air and dust / chips littering the ground that'll harm me (maybe, that's what I'm really wondering about).

Unless you're sanding the paint, there isn't going to be any harmful dust emitted from the paint peeling/cracking.

 

[alkemyst]

Originally posted by: Capt Caveman
Please educate yourself on lead paint. Cracking, peeling will not release any lead into the air. As long as you don't eat it, there is no issue.

Listen to this guy...he knows emo issues. If he isn't crying about it, there is nothing to worry about.

 

[Capt Caveman]

Originally posted by: alkemyst

Originally posted by: Capt Caveman
Please educate yourself on lead paint. Cracking, peeling will not release any lead into the air. As long as you don't eat it, there is no issue.

Listen to this guy...he knows emo issues. If he isn't crying about it, there is nothing to worry about.

Thanks for trolling. The only person crying is you. Now, go back to your thread and refute every single post bashing you.

 

[Greenman]

Lead paint can be very dangerous when the surface it's on is being cut or abraded. So yes, you should be concerned and you should take steps to avoid ingesting the dust. In a very old house, asbestos is also a concern, it was used in almost everything and has to be dealt with properly to avoid contaminating the entire house with asbestos dust.

You can get a lead test kit at home depot for just a few bucks, I don't know if they have one for asbestos.

 

[moshquerade]

http://www.leadtestkits.com/kits4.html

 

[alkemyst]

Originally posted by: Capt Caveman

Originally posted by: alkemyst

Originally posted by: Capt Caveman
Please educate yourself on lead paint. Cracking, peeling will not release any lead into the air. As long as you don't eat it, there is no issue.

Listen to this guy...he knows emo issues. If he isn't crying about it, there is nothing to worry about.

Thanks for trolling. The only person crying is you. Now, go back to your thread and refute every single post bashing you.

Wasn't trying to troll, you just seem to have good answers for all those types of threads I see you posting in.

I don't get your last statment though...is one just to not answer a response to a post?

You seem to know a lot about my threads and me...sorta creepy.

 

[Tobolo]

Just dont eat it. Small kids would eat it and thats been the problem in the past.

 

[Chryso]

Eat the chips. With salsa.

 

[biggestmuff]

OP, you're a kid. It's your parent's home. They are having it remodeled.

 

[PepePeru]

i knew this old man that was active in a local tennis league, he had parkinsons disease.
he swore it started / stemmed from removing lead paint in the 60s or 70s.
im sure he's dead now.

 

[Chryso]

Originally posted by: G Wizard
i knew this old man that was active in a local tennis league, he had parkinsons disease.
he swore it started / stemmed from removing lead paint in the 60s or 70s.
im sure he's dead now.

He shouldn't have eaten so many of the paint chips.

 

[Capt Caveman]

Originally posted by: alkemyst

Originally posted by: Capt Caveman

Originally posted by: alkemyst

Originally posted by: Capt Caveman
Please educate yourself on lead paint. Cracking, peeling will not release any lead into the air. As long as you don't eat it, there is no issue.

Listen to this guy...he knows emo issues. If he isn't crying about it, there is nothing to worry about.

Thanks for trolling. The only person crying is you. Now, go back to your thread and refute every single post bashing you.

Wasn't trying to troll, you just seem to have good answers for all those types of threads I see you posting in.

I don't get your last statment though...is one just to not answer a response to a post?

You seem to know a lot about my threads and me...sorta creepy.

Creepy you are.

 

[Kadarin]

Sooo I'm pretty sure my house has lead paint

Was it made in China?

 

[Kaspian]

You'll be fine. Nothing to worry about. Now if there was asbestos in the house.........thats a different story.

 

[alkemyst]

Originally posted by: Capt Caveman

Originally posted by: alkemyst

You seem to know a lot about my threads and me...sorta creepy.

Creepy you are.

Yeah, so that means something coming from me.

 

[Throckmorton]

Originally posted by: Fraggable
Well I don't know about you, but sometimes when I'm hungry late at night and I just don't feel like running downstairs to get something out of the fridge, I just grab the hammer I keep next to my bed and dent the wall a little and start peeling.





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Just keep some midnight snacks around and you'll be fine. Lead is heavy, it doesn't get airborne very easily.

Don't assume and post bullsh!t that can result in someone sustaining brain damage.

It's irrelevant how heavy lead is. The lead used in paint is in a compound that makes it white. Also, considering it's mixed with the other paint materials, of course it can be in the air. The OP has reason to be concerned.

http://www.epa.gov/iaq/lead.html

Reduce the risk from lead-based paint.

Most homes built before 1960 contain heavily leaded paint. Some homes built as recently as 1978 may also contain lead paint. This paint could be on window frames, walls, the outside of homes, or other surfaces. Do not burn painted wood since it may contain lead.

Leave lead-based paint undisturbed if it is in good condition, do not sand or burn off paint that may contain lead.

Lead paint in good condition is usually not a problem except in places where painted surfaces rub against each other and create dust (for example, opening a window).

 

[Kreon]

Originally posted by: Greenman
Lead paint can be very dangerous when the surface it's on is being cut or abraded. So yes, you should be concerned and you should take steps to avoid ingesting the dust. In a very old house, asbestos is also a concern, it was used in almost everything and has to be dealt with properly to avoid contaminating the entire house with asbestos dust.

You can get a lead test kit at home depot for just a few bucks, I don't know if they have one for asbestos.

Linky to Lead Paint Test kit

 

[DrPizza]

Originally posted by: Throckmorton

Originally posted by: Whoozyerdaddy

Originally posted by: Xylitol

Originally posted by: Whoozyerdaddy
When was the house built?

Before the SF earthquake of 1906

Well then... don't eat the chips if the paint flakes off. You've lived with it this long, if it was going to do anything to you it would have happened by now.

Well that's not true.. It accumulates in your body and causes mental problems. It doesn't kill you.

AFAIK, it's ok if you don't eat it. Having it in the air during remodelling is probably bad. You're inhaling all that dust. If I were you I'd contact some inspector for the city and get them to talk to your parents.

That has the potential to absolutely screw your parents over. All you need is some over-zealous inspector who insists on a bunch of precautions to decrease the risk of you inhaling even one dust particle to zero. i.e. I did an asbestos removal project in a house I used to have. Total project cost = the cost of a few garbage bags + a lot of water. Had my kids called some environmental company when I was half done (before I realized it was asbestos, really ) then it would have cost me at least 10k to finish the job.

 

[Dean]

I went through the same thing. I called emergency response and a hazmat team evacuated 4 city blocks due to the extreme vile danger in my house.

Here are two of them overcome with emotion from the life and death situation:

 

[Capt Caveman]

Originally posted by: Throckmorton
It's irrelevant how heavy lead is. The lead used in paint is in a compound that makes it white. Also, considering it's mixed with the other paint materials, of course it can be in the air. The OP has reason to be concerned.

http://www.epa.gov/iaq/lead.html

Reduce the risk from lead-based paint.

Most homes built before 1960 contain heavily leaded paint. Some homes built as recently as 1978 may also contain lead paint. This paint could be on window frames, walls, the outside of homes, or other surfaces. Do not burn painted wood since it may contain lead.

Leave lead-based paint undisturbed if it is in good condition, do not sand or burn off paint that may contain lead.

Lead paint in good condition is usually not a problem except in places where painted surfaces rub against each other and create dust (for example, opening a window).

The OP has nothing to be worried about. The majority of houses in the US were built prior to 1978 and contain lead paint. Do some research and you'll see lead poisoning is close to nil in the US.

Only if your parents are planning on renting to children under the age of 6, they'll have to delead the house.

 

[imported_Imp]

In terms of common sense, just don't eat it. If the paint's been "ground" or powderized, wear a mask. Or just live with it. My dad was a sh!thead and turned the living room into his personal one year project (read: he took 1 year to paint a 15x15 square foot room). I spent my grade 10(?) year sniffing lead paint (house is at least 100 years old and pretty sure it was painted pre-lead ban). Couldn't do anything about it cause the house is fairly small and there was no where else to bum around/do stuff. Then again, the living room is the freaking living room and can't just be put out of commission for a year. I have no stamina and attention span of crap, maybe the lead helped, maybe not, I can't remember. In short, look up the subject and don't screw yourself.

 

[alkemyst]

Originally posted by: Capt Caveman
The OP has nothing to be worried about. The majority of houses in the US were built prior to 1978 and contain lead paint. Do some research and you'll see lead poisoning is close to nil in the US.

Only if your parents are planning on renting to children under the age of 6, they'll have to delead the house.

I don't know where you are getting majority from, but after 1960 the use of lead was well known and was in the process of being reduced since the 50's and really avoided by all but slum lords and those too cheap for their own good. A lot of places stopped carrying it. In the 70's even paint with lead had only trace amounts.

1978 is when it became illegal to use and sell.

Since that's 30 years ago most walls have been recoated so many times it's a non-issue.

The problem is usually only seen in pre-teen children exposed to it...much like leprosy being a risk to them in 3rd world countries.

You can survive without event with a lead bullet inside you most of the time....a bit of paint isn't going to be tramatic.

It's really nothing to worry about in this case and better to remove the lead than keep it.