WTF
WTF? I just read an article in the paper about this EPA regulation for lead-safe work practices…the way I read it, I can’t paint the walls in my pre-1978 house? I could get fined up to $37,500 per violation per day??? Who would want to paint their house for $37,000 or more plus cost of paint and labor? Nobody. We’ll all be sitting around in our peeling-lead-paint homes instead! If it’s so dangerous to disturb the lead paint by painting over it, why isn’t it dangerous to live in a house with peeling lead paint? (Oh yeah, it is). Will we even be able to buy paint? Or…does this regulation only apply to contractors? The ones I talked to so far don’t like this one bit. The firm has to be “certified” by the EPA at a cost of $300 (payable directly to the EPA) plus the fee for the individual to be trained as a certified renovator (whatever that is $?)… There’s a lot more to it, that’s just the beginning…the government just moved into your house people…do you think they will like the color of the toilet paper in the guest bathroom? You know…the one with the peeling paint?
April 26th, 2010 at 11:42 pm
Don’t be silly Mom! Everyone knows that only white toilet paper is allowed under US Code Title 27 Chapter 6 § 124.
All kidding aside I doubt that the paint Nazis are going to kick in your door if you throw on a new coat of paint.
April 27th, 2010 at 6:39 am
yeah, probably not. anyway in my opinion the only way the EPA could enforce this for the individual home owner is to hire all the unemployed people in America, plus all the illegal immigrants, plus ??? They might be able to fine any contractors that they find out about, but unless they ban the sale of paint I don’t see much of a problem. And yeah, my toilet paper is white! LOL
April 27th, 2010 at 9:38 am
that’s similar to Jean’s situation in her plans to remodel her home. It’s HER home, yet the historical society wants to tell her what she can and can’t do!!
I’d paint anyway. (I will come visit you in jail if they catch you, but I guess I won’t be able to bring you a lead file).