Anyone remember the lead paint hassle? Supposedly children would eat the paint and have all sorts of problems. Lead poisoning became a big issue but I never knew of any kids that ate paint. I guess anything is possible but nicely painted furniture became a thing of the past.
I'm showing a picture here of my kitchen table from about 12 years ago. My neighbor had dismantled it and was going to throw it away when I got it from him. The problem was that his wife babysat children and the table has lead paint. I took it gladly and missed a nights work putting it all back together. Years ago my parents got rid of nicely finished antique-like tables for the same reason. OMG! A kid might chew on that table and eat this paint. Maybe at your house but not at mine.
Changes in this scene over the last 12 years start with the ugly mobile home visible through the window being replaced with a single story 3 unit apartment building. Also the table is not used for dining any longer. I sit at the window and use one of my computers from the floor of that area and the center of the table holds my Emerson 40 inch TV monitor. This is like my kitchen office. I eat pretty much anywhere I damned well please. The front of my place has a totally different view once I got a lot of the trees cut.
Has anyone had experiences with lead paint or like older painted furniture?
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Feel free to reply to any comment by clicking the "Reply" button.It wasn't paint, but the lead water pipes to our home that were the concern when my kids were young.
Julie808
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May 22, 2023
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It was not so dangerous in limestone and chalk areas, like much of Europe. Because the lime in the water formed a protective layer on the inside of the pipes, but if your ground and tap water is slightly acidic, as I think yours will be on a volcanic island, then it could cause a lot of health problems.
@Fernapple This was actually when I lived in Washington State, and had copper pipes with lead fittings or soldering or something, somehow that was deemed dangerous until the county changed our pipes.
I honestly don't know anything about what kind of pipes go into my condo building here on Kaua'i, but seeing how the building is 50 years old, it might be smart for me to ask about the pipes.
There is a huge problem with water on Oahu, with military fuel leaking into the water system in certain areas. Thousands of people are still using only bottled water or staying in hotels, so as not to sicken themselves further. Still a few months away from cleaning up that fuel spill. Glad I don't share that same water system on my island.
It reminds me of the scam involving asbestos home siding that so many houses had in the 1950s they say is dangerous and charge a fortune to remove .it’s not at all dangerous because it’s mixed with a type of cement to make it rigid.It was a good product
richiegtt
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May 21, 2023
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Reportedly children would chew at the lead paint because it was sweet. How you would know this without having at least chewed it once is beyond me. My stepdad became a professional painter and denied me a wonderful old wood table for fear that my young girls would chew the paint. This was many years before my table pic above, but dad destroyed and burned that table. My neighbor was going to let the trash service dispose of the table I have now.
Now if we want to talk about paint, my opinion is that paint was never the same once the lead was removed. Lead is poison but so is fluoride. Lead was also removed from gasoline.
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