Lead Safe Work Practices Pictures

[paulie]

Had some photo's of today of lead safe work practices. I am working on a article to help some of my fellow remodeling contractors out with some "tricks of the trade" to lower man hours and costs. I should say I was in lead abatement for 5 or so years. Got out because of insurance. Anyway here are some photo's of today. The job is removal of horse hair plaster due to roof leak and re-drywall. Two small girls in the home. The air mover is HEPA filtered. You might notice the blue filter and that's not a HEPA. You are right. that's one of the tricks I learned. Put a coarse cheapo filter in front of the HEPA. It filters out 90% of the dust and saves the HEPA from clogging up every 5 min. After the job is done toss the cheapo and vacuum the HEPA and store in a garbage bag. This might not be news to some of you but I've got more time and cost savers that I will share as I go or read my article, hopefully next week.

[Blue]

Good idea on this thread Paulie.

I like your jacks, but because I am cheap I use pvc pipe precut and 90's. Wrap the plastic around the tube and force it up to the ceiling.

There is a chemical that I can't spell right (trimonium phosphate ?) in Spic and Span which is the absolute best for cleaning up flat sufaces like linoleum for example. Especially if there has been a smoker living in the property. That tip came from my friend that is a lab tech that does risk assesment for lead and testing.

[naptownCr]

It's trisodium Phosphate
It is in lots of products and can be bought at most paint stores.

[paulie]

Ya know I used to use all sorts of rigged poles (I'm not saying you are) but I got tired of them. I found these at HF. There aren't many things I will ever buy there but these. They are 9.99/pc. I found out something about HF in buying these. If you pull a picture/ad off the internet site they have to honor it if you present it. The price on the counter was $16.99. I got them for the 9.99 price. I have about 16 of them now. PS I'm a cheap bast***d too!

[nEighter]

Awesome Paulie.. thanks for the pics muh brothah!

I still need to digest your contraption for clean air. Either way I need to get a better setup. I was thinking (prior to this lead debacle) of making a window setup that had a tube hooked to it so I could evacuate the paint/fumes/drywall dust to the outside.

Where did you get that clear tubing for your air ducting?

[paulie]

yo brutha,

Ya know that was the hardest item to find. I got it at a abatement house around here. They also sell plastic tube rolls that are 12" wide by 100' long. They are nice in that you just cut the length that you need for that job and roll it up in the poly and throw away when you're done. My homemade unit is all made out of furnace parts. The 8" round tube is the only one I could find to fit a standard HVAC part. I looked into buying a unit made for this kinda thing and all I remember is that I clicked the computer off and started planning a homemade unit. It was PRICEY. I think I have 60.00 into this one.

I should say that this job was not tested for lead. I advertise on my website for a dust-free process that people hire me for. With the two little girls there I just PRESUMED lead.