Re: Lead Paint Regs

Nobody gets a permit to paint a house, and nobody cares, the sky isnt falling and wont fall. You are out of touch with reality.

Nothing bad will happen for a homeowner, In apts bad stuff does happen with inspectors.

No, it assumes most people don't get permits for DIY renovations to begin with, and inspectors don't have the time or desire to go around revoking occupancy over minor home renovations.

Seriously, go to one of the big box stores, look at all the water heaters in stock, and tell me you honestly think most consumers take out a permit to replace their own water heater.

Look at all the drywall, paint, and paneling in stock, and tell me you honestly think most consumers get a permit to spruce up the pantry.

Unless this new rule is backed by substantial new enforcement funding, it will join the long list of rules that are routinely ignored by homeowners working on their own homes.

The putty in windows was almost pure lead. My father swore by lead putty, and he was a chemist. He worked it in his hands to keep it flexible. He died at age 90. It must have shortened his life.

Lead putty, when was that used, Lead isnt flexible until near 600f, I know lead was in paint but putty? The problem is these hungry kids eat paint chips and suck on chinese toys painted with lead paint, so when they dont achieve in school they are tested and the parents can sue the lanlord. It doesnt matter if the mother drank a gallon of booze a day in pregnancy or that the kid got it from toys. Lanlords have gotten screwed from kids testing positive for lead.

Lead putty, when was that used, Lead isnt flexible until near 600f, I know lead was in paint but putty? The problem is these hungry kids eat paint chips and suck on chinese toys painted with lead paint, so when they dont achieve in school they are tested and the parents can sue the lanlord. It doesnt matter if the mother drank a gallon of booze a day in pregnancy or that the kid got it from toys. Lanlords have gotten screwed from kids testing positive for lead.

Yes, lead-based putty. He swore by it. Said lead-based paint would chalk, but not peel, thus providing for a long life. Of course, we grew up with lead-based paint and no one thought much of it.

Locally we had a scare this year when the water works changed to ammonia and chlorine combinations which, it turned out, leached the lead out of copper tubing joints. Kids started to show up in school with symptoms. They tried to hide the fact that they had picked a bad mixture, and eventually quietly changed it, and we have no heard a word about it since.

It's not solid metallic lead, it's "white lead" or lead carbonate [(PbCO3)2·Pb(OH)2] powder, generally mixed with calcium carbonate and linseed oil.

I read this year of a woman who ate food which her group (husband?) hunted. Her appendix was full of lead, a lifetime accumulation from eating water fowl shot with shotguns.

Shot collecting in the appendix is apparently not uncommon. If it's lead shot then lead toxicity can result.

Everyone has a story about some relative about how they drank a quart of booze a day/smoked 5 packs/cleaned their hands with solvent every day/turned brown from the sun from working on a tuna trawler/mined uranium etc and they lived to some ripe old age so therefore it is evidence that that activity is OK.

All of the wisdom about causation of cancer pretty much points to having a genetic predisposition which is "switched on" by a stimulus such as radiation (nuclear or UV), exposure to chemicals or whatever. So the reality is handle/expose yourself to whatever you want with abandon only if you feel lucky.

I know lead is not a good thing to work with.

ransley wrote in news: snipped-for-privacy@i76g2000hsf.googlegroups.com:

Uh, Pat isn't the one who wrote/passed that regulation...he is adressing potential propblems arising out of the regulation. In what way is that "out of touch with reality"?

ransley wrote in news:42705436-bcde-4982-a636- snipped-for-privacy@e39g2000hsf.googlegroups.com:

Ever look into buying a house that turned out to have major renovation work with no permit? What a mess - best to pass it by as fast as possible.

Frst, Pat had mentioned that the reg. applies to houses built prior to

Even if the bozo gets away with it for a while, I have seen that very sort of thing put the kabosh on selling the place.

Pat wrote in news: snipped-for-privacy@34g2000hsh.googlegroups.com:

The Romans used to use lead as a flavoring.

Learn something every day. That explains much. And it's much more compelling than the "lead pipes" theory.

"J. Clarke" wrote in news: snipped-for-privacy@news4.newsguy.com:

I actually don't know how much lead (from pipes) would eb dissolved into water - I'd haev to aska chemist. But they used lead fro pretty much everything it seems, fromlining cups and other food vessels, to everyday items and utensils, and so on. It might not have been any one thing, but when you add it all up together, what's most amazing to me is that *any* of them survived.

I also heard or read that the ROmans has double-paned windows - they weer very rare (expensive item, glass), but still fascinating.

Considering it took Rome longer to fall than the U.S. has been in existence, the alternative explanation is that the hype over lead is, um, exaggerated.

"HeyBub" wrote in news:xrGdnROsJaei0QLVnZ2dnUVZ snipped-for-privacy@earthlink.com:

Huh?? Even despite contradicting even contemporaneous accounts, never mind history, that doesn't make sense logically. In many ways, an empire functions from the bottom up - even if the upper classes were having some level of brain damage from ingestion of lead acetate, there are a lot fo people in the lower classes still doing things as they'd alwasy doen, IOW, in ways that had worked for hundreds of years.

Again, I don't know how much lead dissolves in average (i.e. undistilled0 water, but the thinking is that the highest lead levels occurred in those who were ingesting luxury foods, a category whihc includes specially- prepared sweetened wine and foods (i.e. sweetened with the syrup that was created by reduction of the solution created by heating wine with lead).

OTOH, you're more than welcome to start ingesting as much lead as you wish, if you *really* want to prove your point. MEanwhile, the effect of lead poisoning was well-known to the Roams, and their successors (such as Lucretia Borgia); additionally, in more recent times, the effect of lead upon the neurological development of children has also been studied and is well-known. So take all the risks with your own health taht you wish - meanwhile, the rest of us will continue to try to avoid ingesting lead.