Product Endorsement and Lead Paint Blues

I've never endorsed a product but I can heartily recommend Peel Away paint stripper! This stuff is great! Paste it on like you are icing a cake, cover with paper, wait a day or so, remove the paper and all the crappy paint comes with it!

Hell, you can't even drink it and believe it or not it smells nice too!!

Aye! It's a pleasure owning an old house but it can be a pain in the arse as well! It turned out that most of the old paint in the house has lead in it so it all has to come down or get encapsulated! Lead paint in itself is not a major hazard if left undisturbed but a lot of the lead paint in our house is flaky so it has to go.

This is what I have been doing for the last couple of weeks. Working on the bannister in our hallway and I will soon start working on all the beading and door frames. The attic is progressing nicely and hopefully will be finished by the end of the month. Because of the lead, all the high-friction areas have to be done before the baby gets here.

They say the lead can cause behavioural problems in kids and it can lower your i.q. if you are an adult and you get overexposed to it. Yeah? Well, beer makes you stupid too and all the adults I know were kids when all paint had lead in it! Doesn't it seem that kids were so much more polite back in the old lead paint days!

No, I'm kidding... It's a serious problem and I am treating it seriously which is why Peel Away has been a godsend! The paint stays wet when it peels off so it is easy to clean up and more importantly, there is no dust!

Next week we find out if the baby is a boy or a girl. I'd prefer a girl but Alma wants a boy. We'll see happens...............