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Originally Posted by daArch
Jim,
You may want to consider whether ANY stripping from pre-78 housing will fall under the RRP rules.
I just bowed out of stripping a small bath in a 1976 house. We all know the chance of lead paint being used to prime sheetrock prior to hanging in 1976 is about 0%. I know the orig painter, and he was not using lead paints. Lead interior paint had been phased out by the majors by then. YET, the test kits are not reliable on walls (or so our instructor said). I would need to proceed with the assumption there is lead on the walls. Even washing the residue paste from the primed walls would be designated as "disturbing" the primer.
This is a process that I am not ready to ignore.
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Mr. Archibald, I just send the latest
parodi on paperhanging to the publisher. The subject this coming issue is about how the RRP affects paperhangers specifically. Instead of making stuff up as I usually do, I actually was in direct contact with the EPA in Washington. I got a direct response from the national spokesman concerning the concerns in your quote above. This important aspect of
wallpaper removal as it concerns RRP and what the EPA thinks about is dealt with in the column...don't miss it.
(If you or anyone else does not subscribe I will send it do you free of charge.) Unfortunately I never make a column public until I have been paid and the publisher takes their sweet asss time about sending checks. So what else is new.
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