Our neighbor has started sanding his 1875 house, I assume in preparation to do more exterior painting. I see people with hand sanders on ladders and I don’t see any machinery that indicates there is a collection of paint chips…
Lead is all around us. Prior to 1978, lead was in many everyday products like paint and gasoline, but it also was the pipes and solder feeding us water and in the glazes that covered ceramics and cast iron fixtures.…
Each year our houses get a bit older; parts continue to wear, fall off or just stop functioning all together. A house has parts meant to protect and parts meant to operate. Windows, especially ones over 100 years old, operate…