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June 17, 2005
Glass Panel Door for the Master Bathroom
Another design choice to offend the more modest: Here's a salavaged glass door we picked up at Eddie's Salvage last weekend for $20. It came out of a house on Vanderbilt Avenue. It looks like it's in worse shape than it is. The peeling paint is all bark and no bite. It actually a very nice, old door that should fit in rather well. And the price was right.
Comments
I look at that and all I see is lead paint. I hope they don't try to strip it on site.
Posted by: Anonymous at June 17, 2005 10:34 AM
I stripped a ton of 100 year old lead painted moldings and doors with a heat gun. A coworker insisted I get my blood lead levels tested, and everything was fine. One household worth of lead paint stripping is not going to get you!
I'm sure you'll clean up right and seal everything in with tung oil or varnish . . .
It's a lovely door.
WHERE IS EDDIE'S SALVAGE?!
Posted by: LG at June 17, 2005 4:03 PM
Were you under 10 years of age when you did that stripping with the heat gun? Because lead is a threat to the under 10 set, mainly. And really, before you give advice on this -- look it up. There are just heartbreaking stats on this, especially in cities with older housing stock.
Posted by: Anonymous at June 17, 2005 6:12 PM
Of course lead paint is a problem, but could you get off the high horse for just a minute?
Responsible lead abatement is not a big deal and need not be approached with alarmist fear. You get rid of the paint or seal it in, VERY doable especially on the scale most of us are dealing with! I'm going to guess we've all read about brain damage and test scores and the rest of the stats and are aware that lead damage results from kids breathing in the dust or eating peeling chips.
I was sharing my personal experience of this process, and I think that is constructive. I really get tired of anonymous flamers/haters/smartypants/holier-than-thou types that clog the internet . . .
(turning off the computer for the weekend now!)
Posted by: LG at June 18, 2005 1:41 PM
... says the guy who posts every 10 minutes about his "personal experience".
Posted by: Anonymous at June 18, 2005 11:24 PM
I am the parent of a child who had a very scary lead issue just by living in a house that had recently been renovated. Never underestimate lead risk!!!!!!!!!!!
Posted by: DT at June 19, 2005 9:57 PM
DT and others who have dealt with this first hand,
I would love to hear more about your experience. What method of lead removal did you use, and how did the negative exposure take place (if you know) ?
We did the paint stripping ourselves, using a heat gun. We were really careful about getting rid of the chips/dust, then sealed everything up with varnish and paint. Then a friend (and cancer survivor) raised the issue of the fumes, and aerosolized lead so we had blood work done. Nice to have health insurance!
We didn't allow kids or pets in the renovation area, and the adult blood work came back clean.
Posted by: LG at June 20, 2005 5:11 PM
We didn't remove the lead ourselves. We moved into an apt. that had been renovated. From what we can tell, the lead expusure can from residue on the floor or rugs. Everything looked clean and we cleaned ourselves, but lead dust is very hard to get rid of.
Posted by: DT at June 24, 2005 11:30 PM
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