Re: New Baby/Mass. Lead Law - Landlord Forum thread 342832

Re: New Baby/Mass. Lead Law by Garry (Iowa) on February 6, 2016 @10:57

OK. I learned something new today. But the "special liquid coating" simply means a special type of paint with certain chemicals in it that does not allow lead particles to come thru the coating. You will still need to "paint" it on, using brushes, rollers, or spray-on equipment. There are many specialty type paints and varnishes on the market, so which one to get, depends on the job you are doing. But I doubt you will need to strip down any doors, walls, or woodwork, to get down to bare plaster or wood. That is called lead abatement, and most states require a licensed person or company to do that, using strict methods of removal procedures costing thousands of dollars. That's why states allow people to encapsulate (cover over) lead, rather than abate it. So what you may have to do is re "paint" the whole apartment, using a "special" paint to do it. If you are watching the Flint, Mich. water problem, when they switched water sources, they did not put a certain special chemical in the water to keep coating all the leaded pipes in the city, which caused their problem. They are now doing that, and are slowly re-coating the lead pipes again to make them safe. You will essentially be doing the same thing. Apparently your state is more progressive than Iowa. We can use any kind of indoor or outdoor paint to cover the lead problems, as long as the scraping and cleanup of the surfaces are done correctly.

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