I got no choice, son!
The cheap bastard could afford to hire an EPA-certified professional a hundred times over if he cared.
Edit: He stopped after I got physically violent, though I suspect he’ll resume when I’m not home.
tbf lead is part of the boomer food pyramid
don’t forget the soil is contaminated now too so anything you grow there could have lead
It’s five feet from our backyard garden!
Edit: I guess it’s our “former” backyard garden.
ugh I hate this for you. I’ve lived in an area where basically all the soil is contaminated from lead paint peeling plus nearby factories and metal processing releasing metals in the air. so fucked
Grow sunflowers, they uptake heavy metals in the soil.
Hemp is also really good for heavy metal uptake
Buy a lead test pen at a hardware store for like $8 and test it. That way you know your getting the good stuff. Or he might listen, who knows?
It was positive for lead when Lowe’s tested it two months ago prior to a window installation. The house was built in the 50s/60s.
My sister already has a bunch of lead test strips she got for her firearms that we could use.
It’s better to encapsulate it unless it’s on a high friction surface, or if you have small kids and they’ll chew there like a windowsill
How are your lead test pens so cheap, I paid $40 aud for mine
i dont know if someone has mentioned it but if there is paint on the house from the up until the late 1970s when lead paint was outlawed, there is a greater than zero chance that the house also has asbestos siding.
Im not saying that is the case. Its just as likely as not to be.
But there is overlap. Asbestos was used until the 1960s I think. So tell your dad to make sure its not that.
also, why are you getting violent?
also, why are you getting violent?
Probably because permanently poisoning you and the environment you live in is a form of violence, and the person doing this violence did not respond to peaceful ways of making them stop? Physically violent could just mean holding someone back or forcing their arm holding the sander down.
Don’t answer for them.
It’s a public forum for public discussions. It was clear from “probably” that I was answering in the general sense and not for him.
I acknowledge that I was speculating on the nature of violence, but truthfully I think that in general OP wasn’t wrong regardless. With this type of attitude, it can be impossible to stop people from poisoning you without physically preventing them from continuing.
Public discussion is not answering for them.
Also, you should really spend some time thinking about the response you gave.
I don’t know why you think this person shouldn’t have been allowed to comment
Commenting and answering for someone aren’t the same thing.
Do better
why are you getting violent?
Probably somewhat justified, but it felt like a weird way for OP to phrase it. Was it like violent violent?
Its just the lead doing its thing
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It sucks to have to do it but not as much as letting your whole family getting lead exposure. Even if it wasn’t an issue for OP it’s probably still justified to keep his dad from killing himself
What a bizarre way to view that.
You should do some thinking on that.
I assume he is raw dogging that dust straight into his respiratory system too, right?
He wore an N95 (which he also took inside), which was the complete extent of the precautions he took.
I’m surprised he even took tho precautions honestly. I would have figured being outside meant there was ventilation therefore no risk.
The fact that he wore it, already dusty, into the house is definitely expected tho. I’ve found that most people, even if they do wear a mask for whatever reason, they don’t fully grasp why they are doing so…
Can you either get your dad some appropriate ppe, or high the guys to do it yourself, and subtract the cost from any rent or whatever you contribute to the house?
alternative, consider moving out, but thats my trauma speaking
little flash back of my dad
getting drunkenly violent with me about sparklers in my birthday cake when i was a teenager because he was convinced they’ve got lead in them (theyre aluminium, which is also poisonous iirc), but also my dad was a big fan of pesticides in the house so you know, thanks dad
anti-lead wipes. tyvek suit. respirator.
God made lead, and lead don’t…
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head!That sucks. Especially when you can get a tyvek suit cover-all on amazon for around $25 and take that off before entering the house or at least rinse it down.
Off the top of my head I’d surmise a bad (but still way better than this) cheap way to do it would be to use one of those, a respirator with p100 cartridge ($35) and plastic tarps you use painters tape on to apply against the bottom of the wall, then collect the results by rolling the tarp up, slide contents into garbage bag and re-use tarp. Nowhere near safe (and so much dust would float beyond it but what can you do) but would cut down on soil contamination and other things. Of course if he’s fine breathing it in you could forget the respirator because he’s fine with it. But if you did it yourself that’s about what it would cost to mostly protect yourself (shaking/brushing off the suit, ideally using a garden hose to rinse it away from the house of course and then removing the suit outdoors, leaving it outdoors and then going inside to quickly shower/rinse your face). Misting anytime you’re creating or moving dust would also be advisable but may not be practical and risks creating run-off if you’re using anything but very light amounts of water (though done away from the house you’re at least removing the risk to your garden and such). Of course the proper thing to do is not this. It’s a lot more involved and expensive.
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Good job getting physically violent with your father, comrade. Parental violence is good practice for violence against the system.
I mean, lead exposure is correlated with violence, soooo…
