[stelzerpaintinginc.]

Started a fire resto about 2 weeks ago and this is 1 of 3 spray stations set up in targeted areas, and the previous buckets were dried, stacked & tossed 3 days ago. Approx 60-80 gals/day on average. That might not sound like much until you consider the bulk of what's being sprayed are studs, beams & trusses. Having to seal up all framing after the buildings have been stripped of sheetrock, insulation, etc. I've sprayed more shellac in the last 2 weeks than the past 30 years.

 

[Wolfgang]

Yep. And that's how it is with fire insurance resto. Hated doing the fire damage jobs. Actually go to the point I hated any job that required any type of shellac based sealers.

Wasn't out of the normal to go through a case of filters and canisters. And, the regular 3M filter and canisters aren't designed to filter these products. You'll have to go with an insecticide type mask.

 

[Woodco]

I've only had to do that a couple times. Crawling in a nice hot as hell attic and spraying studs with insulation blowing all over and sticking to you, sucks really bad....

 

[jennifertemple]

Makes me glad I'm semi-retired! I wouldn't do a job like that unless my life did depend on it!

 

[lilpaintchic]

I dont miss that at all.. state farm used to require that it be done with kilz. what a nightmare.

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[PACman]

all of the fire restoration places around here use Kilz alkyd. None of them use a shellac product even though almost all of the insurance companies require shellac. I had a customer in Columbus that did nothing but fire restorations. They gave us copies of the actual "specs" from about 20 insurance companies when we were working up pricing from them. Every one of them required a shellac based primer and several even said that any jobs not done with a shellac based primer would not be paid. But here, not one fire restoration place uses anything but Kilz. I don't know how they get away with it.

 

[stelzerpaintinginc.]

all of the fire restoration places around here use Kilz alkyd. None of them use a shellac product even though almost all of the insurance companies require shellac. I had a customer in Columbus that did nothing but fire restorations. They gave us copies of the actual "specs" from about 20 insurance companies when we were working up pricing from them. Every one of them required a shellac based primer and several even said that any jobs not done with a shellac based primer would not be paid. But here, not one fire restoration place uses anything but Kilz. I don't know how they get away with it.

There's no way I would've taken this job on if Kilz had to be used. There's already no heat and very minimal temp electricity, so getting it to dry and stop stinking would've taken forever and been downright unbearable in the interim.

The most time consuming task on this whole project is having to constantly figure out how to run enough power to the areas in need for lights, fans, blowers, sprayers, and then some a-hole sider redoing the exterior comes in and effs it all up by tapping off your power to run his compressor.

Side note...the smell of ammonia has now begun to trigger my gag reflex.

 

[Wildbill7145]

On a positive note, this thread has lead to the addition of one item to my list of things in the world of painting that I'll never do if I'm ever asked. Troy, you're definitely a trooper for having pushed through to the end zone on this one. Congrats.

 

[Lightningboy65]

Ahh yes. I do miss those jobs where every time the compressor kicks on the power kicks off!