Stripping paint - but concerned about leaded paint

missprice

Amazon £19.50 just googled it

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Given the age of the house I suspect the 'dark stuff' is dark oak varnish.

JustAnotherSaver

Really? Smelled just like creosote to me. What about that mustard like stuff?

mttylad

Is it really going to be that much of a problem?

Your not likely to go mad from the amount of lead in that, using paint stripper is more likely to make you ill if you breath its fumes in.

Just get it stripped, rub it down well.
Try not to take chunks out of the wood.

BTW - your scraper looks like its seen better days
P.S. - once you have it stripped - whats the chances that she decides she wants a wood finish rather than painted

JustAnotherSaver

mttylad wrote: »

Is it really going to be that much of a problem?

Your not likely to go mad from the amount of lead in that, using paint stripper is more likely to make you ill if you breath its fumes in.

But i've not shown you how much wood there is for the reason that i started this thread :cool:

I read the instructions on the heat gun & it mentioned even little amount of lead fumes can cause this that & the other. I know they've got to put all that in, but you wonder.

BTW - your scraper looks like its seen better days

Perhaps, but it's doing the job fine enough for now

P.S. - once you have it stripped - whats the chances that she decides she wants a wood finish rather than painted

Absolutely zero since that's my room for all my stuff.

She gets the other room, which is about twice as big :rotfl:

Bluebell1000

That looks like the paint layers on the original door that we stripped in our late 1930s house! We got it off with a heat gun in the end, the paint stripper just turned it gooey. In fact the bit we treated with paint stripper is still oozing brown goo through the repainted gloss about 2 years later... We thought the brown wood stain might be a shellac? Anyway, having stripped a door of similar paint to yours, I can confirm that we are still alive and not suffering any ill effects from lead poisoning

I think if we were stripping any more of the doors though, we'd send them for chemical stripping or something - it took ages to get that stuff off!

Own_My_Own

I stripped the stairs in my old Victorian house. We had layers of , white, cream, green, red and a glue substance. I used paint stripper and lived to tell the tale.

JustAnotherSaver

lol well that's good to know

That mustard like stuff was a strange substance. Very sticky/gooey but quite easy to get off once the heat was on the job.

It'd probably come up quite nice actually but it'll stand out so needs to be repainted white now. The job that was on there to start with was all patchy.


EDIT: On the topic of painting....

We have mould on one plastered wall from where a leak was. I was talking to a customer at work about this & he said we should get some mould/fungus wash on it to kill it & then put something else on top of it prior to wallpapering (i know i said wallpapering, but i imagine painting or papering on top of mould will require the same work).

Question is, what are you supposed to do with it? I found some anti-fungus wash but what is it you're supposed to do after that but before papering?

mttylad

JustAnotherSaver wrote: »

Question is, what are you supposed to do with it? I found some anti-fungus wash but what is it you're supposed to do after that but before papering?

Have a cup of tea.

If your concerned about the lead in the fumes wear a dust mask.

It will do nowt for the lead fumes but act as a placebo

JustAnotherSaver

mttylad wrote: »

Have a cup of tea.

If your concerned about the lead in the fumes wear a dust mask.

It will do nowt for the lead fumes but act as a placebo

Sorry, i don't drink tea & don't know how anyone else can :beer::D

But on the topic of treating mould before wallpapering??? I'd rather not make another thread as i've enough going on already :rotfl:

I know you can bleach it or get mould killer for it, but then there's something you apply after that & i can't remember for the life of me what the chap said. I've tried searching & can't find an answer to it.

This is separate from lead.