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Originally Posted by Hatterasguy
Great another way for the gov to screw us.  Pressure treated wood is next, that stuff will be treated like toxic waste in a few years.
Lead paint will only hurt you if you eat it, people over react a lot sometimes. |
They've actually improved PT wood a lot already. For awhile, I think for a period of a few years ending a couple of years back, they had a new formula that wood eat nail that weren't stainless. Some guys still insist on using stainless only and I sorta go along with that.
PT wood should NOT be burned and I try to wear a respirator whenever I'm cutting it.
Problem with lead paint is that kids who eat the paint chips, which have a slightly sweet taste I'm told, suffer irreversible impairment of their intelligence potential.
Some of the big jobs I've worked on, the painters coat the existing stuff with a couple of coats of primer to make sure it's safely buried.