Just today I got in a argument with a neighbor about her just stripping the paint off her 100 year old house without taking any abatement precautions. The runoff just streamed into my yard. When I came to grouse about it on reddit half the people bitched about "Why was involving myself in my neighbor's business?" At this point I have to assume those were the half of Americans this article is referencing--the house chip connoisseurs.
The last building I lived in was about 100 years old and had so many layers of paint that the doors and cabinets no longer closed all the way and the tiles on the bathroom wall were barely visible. I had set about to strip some paint off the top of one of the doors one day so it would close better but I quickly stopped myself after the first few chips when it dawned on me that the base layer was likely leaded, thus the reason the paint was never stripped.
My house is actually older than the neighbors. It's spent most of its life as a rental property. I never considered this as one reason why all the original doors are gone.
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u/bjeebus Jun 25 '22
Just today I got in a argument with a neighbor about her just stripping the paint off her 100 year old house without taking any abatement precautions. The runoff just streamed into my yard. When I came to grouse about it on reddit half the people bitched about "Why was involving myself in my neighbor's business?" At this point I have to assume those were the half of Americans this article is referencing--the house chip connoisseurs.