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One thing to remember when you are painting an old house is that you are probably painting over some lead paint somewhere. Lead paint was very popular 30 years ago (banned in 1978 for household use) and is still very popular in other countries &#821 [Read More]

The room is done! And now, for your enjoyment, some housey goodness....This is the two doors, on the left, the main door, on the right the closet.With the doors closed. This one also shows my mad skills with a miter saw. The quarter-round was not ori [Read More]

Unfortunately, it is work on one of our rent houses and not our own house   The Alexandria Housing inspector tested the exterior paint on one of our bungalows and it tested positive for lead paint.  Bleh…..  I scraped and painted one wind [Read More]

That I really enjoy stripping paint? I mean, don't get me wrong, the dangerous lead issue is no fun. However, watching the paint bubble up, and then scrapping it off in ugly, lead infested ribbons makes up for the hassle. It's a little like Christ [Read More]

In talking about scraping paint off woodwork, especially woodwork on a 130-year-old house, it is important to keep in mind the presence of lead in a lot of old paint. I think this is something that comes and goes in our awareness, and it's definite [Read More]

Old-house owners of the world, there's a must-read in today's New York Times, whether you're a New Yorker or not: The lead-paint liability medicine show is gearing up to come to a town near you. If you work for a paint company, this should [Read More]

I went to the house after work last night with three goals: Measure the windows Measure area for fixing erosion problem Take more photos and visually assess our lead paint problem I accomplished two out of three. Didn’t get to the erosion pr [Read More]

Well, the real Step One involved lots of hyperventilating and false starts and panic attacks. So, the next step was to take the windows out, a room at a time, and take them offsite to be stripped down. All the way down. No paint on them. At all. [Read More]

(Since I have so many of both, I'm going to mix up my window-related entries with my being-outta -town-related entries over the next few days...) There are not many things that make my heart seize up like a clenched fist. But lead paint is one of t [Read More]

Okay, our exterior windows are alligatoring, (is that a word?) I know they have lead paint on them. (Thank god most of the exterior is brick!) I had planned on using SoyGel on them, and let's just say that didn't go too hot. So I bought me some P [Read More]

One evening, as I lay in bed looking up up at the ceiling in our bedroom and listening to my son breathing, I was thinking about lead paint. My wife, ever the concerned parent, took home a lead paint test kit that they were giving away free at the s [Read More]

The Wall Street Journal made brief mention today of new proposed regulations from the Environmental Protection Agency that address contractor work in houses built before 1978 that may involve lead.It's an interesting read. The Cliff Notes version is [Read More]

I was reminded that I hadn't followed through on my promise to explain why we went with white trim in the back hallway, two back bedrooms and kitchen from an earlier post.It seems like an odd choice, doesn't it, after all of the hard work we put into [Read More]

I just can’t stick to my shopping list at the hardware store. I stopped in to get some polyurethane for a stepstool I’m finishing for my son and I picked up a home test for lead paint on impulse. The test was probably a good impulse be [Read More]