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Good ideas. I keep a roll of blue tape in my side pouch and a cheap ball point pen. Put the tape down and mark on that- easy to see. This is good to mark on surfaces that you want to keep pristine and seems to reduce tear out some. Like Danger, I also use a knife for super accurate marking.

I just took my certified renovator course today. And I've never seen so many eyes rolling toward the ceiling!

Every time our instructor presented another scenario.... What about setting up ladders on the plastic 10 feet from the house, how many holes will you have to tape up by lunch time? Pressure washing, containing and filtering the waste to 5 microns, who's going to come around and check on that? In California they don't allow you to use the EPA approved lead testing kits- WHAT- so every time you want to be sure you have to hire an expert $$$? He said the safest way is just to assume every single house before 1978 has lead and act accordingly. None of my subs have completed this training, don't know if they will even do so. Do I 'fire' all of them, even though we have a great working relationship, if they don't get this training. Does that make me an accomplice if some other contractor/sub works after me and someone gets lead poisoning/sick in a house that I have worked in? Who is the lawyer going to sue- probably both of us- even if I follow all the rules and have the paperwork to back it up. What is the biological/ecological cost of all this extra plastic- isn't that made out of OIL- how many humans die/are maimed to keep that flowing out of the ground, what the....?

You know there are a thousand other 'contractors' that will ignore or just plead ignorance about this. And you know its going to put pressure on some contractors to snitch on some one that isn't certified. Work is thin, allot of tradesmen are loosing their homes, trucks, bankruptcy. You bet people will do what's necessary to take care of themselves and their families.

I've been building for 27 years- I have never seen or heard from any of my building buddies, that they have ever encountered an OSHA or EPA inspector.

Who is going to enforce all of these rules? Like always- contractors with integrity will do the right thing- take action that makes sense, and those that play loose and free with their ethics.... well you know the rest....

My rule of thumb- If it keeps awake at night, I gotta make it right.....

Very cool! And I have to say it looks like a fine piece of furniture on the outside of the house- good work!