The other day, I was cleaning 100 year old windows in a 100 year old home, as I normally do. As always, there was 100 year old glazing on the french panes, and a lot of them were peeling and falling apart.
When I bought up the fact that the glazing was falling apart to the homeowner, her first question was "Do I have to worry about lead poisoning?"
I told her I could not honestly answer that question. There was at least a half dozen layers of paint visible on the peeling glazing, and it was, in fact falling apart.
This got me thinking...
For guys like myself who work in a very old area, we see this every day. We are constantly pulling old paint chips out of sills, scraping ancient paint off of windows, and going about it willy nilly without a care in the world.
I'm not even touching the subject of leaded glass either.
So, I did a little research on the subject, and do think that I will make an appointment with the good Doc to get tested for lead exposure. It is only as a precaution though.
But, hypothetically, if there was an abnormal amount of lead in my system, would it change the way I do business? Would it change what types of windows I was willing to tackle? Would it change your modus operandi?
Just a rant here. I never thought of this in the past.
When I bought up the fact that the glazing was falling apart to the homeowner, her first question was "Do I have to worry about lead poisoning?"
I told her I could not honestly answer that question. There was at least a half dozen layers of paint visible on the peeling glazing, and it was, in fact falling apart.
This got me thinking...
For guys like myself who work in a very old area, we see this every day. We are constantly pulling old paint chips out of sills, scraping ancient paint off of windows, and going about it willy nilly without a care in the world.
I'm not even touching the subject of leaded glass either.
So, I did a little research on the subject, and do think that I will make an appointment with the good Doc to get tested for lead exposure. It is only as a precaution though.
But, hypothetically, if there was an abnormal amount of lead in my system, would it change the way I do business? Would it change what types of windows I was willing to tackle? Would it change your modus operandi?
Just a rant here. I never thought of this in the past.
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