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I am a Maryland Home Improvement Contractor. I went to a job today on a porch in a historic district. The floor is T & G fir with multiple layers of lead paint. Porch needs a few strips replaced, paint removed, and then repainted. The porch is 8′ x 22′, which is a lot of paint to remove. I went to the EPA site and couldn’t quite figure out if I’m even allowed to remove this much lead paint. I’m afraid wearing a good respirator and using a floor sander could possibly start a riot in the neighborhood. What would you guys do? Any ideas? I’ll probably call the Home Improvement Commission tomorrow………I hate calling that place…..
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I am a Maryland resident and, to the best of my knowledge, after several phonecalls in the past months, was informed that it is OK to take lead paint laden "boards" to the dump - Montgomery County. I also took softened lead paint chips by the bag full.
If you find out something different, I would love to know. I have been "burning" my trim paint off with a heat gun and it goes OK - pretty slow but hey what can you expect on curved surfaces and rake moulding. For the flat surface you have, you need one of these: (about $95) http://www.warnertool.com/
I tried renting one w/ no luck because I have seen it in action and IT WORKS. No one around here knew what I was talking about including the paint stores. I ended up sticking with the heat gun and, as strange as it may sound, the less expensive heat gun was better.
Now, if you want to practice those skills .......(grinning)
*Did a quick Web search. A lot of hits on lead paint removal, but only found two that dealt with actual removal. However, I only looked at a couple of pages of listings:http://www.hc-sc.gc.ca/english/iyh/leadpaint.htmlhttp://www.oldhousechronicle.com/archives/vol02/issue09/technical/lead2.html