u/remosiracha

TLDR, sorry for the wall of text, I'm bad at summarizing my thoughts on here. But there is probably lead paint in my house and I want actual advice on how to remove it or test it without hurting my pets and hurting my chances at selling in the future.

I've searched every thread and article about this and I'm sure people are sick of talking about it, but I feel like every thread just keeps saying the same thing.

"Well if its not peeling leave it alone and don't eat it"

Every thread is just people giving absolutely no real advice and I would like some help if anyone has ideas.

Just moved into a 1926 home with landlord special paint covering every surface. We are grateful that most of the house is in good condition and we would love to try and renovate and get it back to its historical charm, which means getting the white paint off the walls, doors, hardware, trim, and baseboards. I'm not great at making these posts concise so I'm gonna try to list my questions below.

1. Should we get our house professionally tested? I know it has lead paint but I would like that verification of which rooms it is in and if the previous owners actually got rid of some of it. I read a few threads saying if you get it tested, you now have to disclose that information and it could affect you in the future. I have small pets and would feel much better at least knowing if we are being exposed or if we are safe.
2. Every thread says "if it isnt peeling just dont worry about it" but my paint IS peeling. There are small worn out spots all over the house that I can see bare wood underneath. I would love to get everything back to bare wood and want to know the best way to actually remove all of the paint instead of slapping more paint on top to cover it again.
3. The walls are painted horribly and need to be sanded/filled with a lot of prep work to repaint. There are spots it dripped and dried, cracks, thick and thin spots, and obvious repairs. If it is lead paint on the walls, what is the best way to paint over it or remove it completely to avoid just painting over a bad paint job which will reflect through. I assume if I paint over a dripping paint line it will look like I just painted over a dripping paint line.

Thanks for the help if you made it this far.

New to the area and definitely not from an extreme pedestrian utopia, but I'm still used to most people stopping and letting you cross the street.

If I stop to let someone by, the person behind me flies around and almost hits the person and doesn't want to wait 30 seconds.

When I'm walking, I'll be standing at the intersection for several minutes waiting for a clearing or hoping someone stops to let me cross. There have been a few times where I'm already crossing when it's clear, then multiple cars turn down the road and just keep driving and forcing me to stand in the middle of the street while they all go by.

I just don't get it. This town feels very walkable and nice but in addition to the lack of stop signs throughout the neighbourhoods, it feels so dangerous and unfriendly to try to walk around 😂

Just bought my first weed whacker. Im not going to be a lawn guy, more of a garden guy, but I officially have a regulation backyard to work on for the first time 🤙

Cheers to wackin'

Annoyed trying to find a desk that isn't in the thousands of dollars and think I settled on flexispot to try out. I'm tired of cable nests and wanted some kind of integrated cable management to see if it helped.

After deciding on the E7 pro, I noticed they had a new looking model with integrated power outlets on the leg. Does anyone have any insight? No reviews yet online.

At this point I'm about to just buy the cheapest desk at office depot and give up 😂

Just wanted to point out the obvious that the las Vegas golden knights are not just made up of people that live in las Vegas and also as someone that lived in las Vegas and played on Nevada's first high school hockey team. There's definitely a hockey community there.

But also f*** the knights 🤙🤙

Memorial service? Parade for memorial day? Can't find any info about it. Went on for a few minutes

Hi!

Moving to town from a place that basically has zero restrictions on anything. Every place we've looked at is 100 years old and has a fireplace inside and the last owners had a backyard firepit. I was excited to finally live somewhere again where I could have my own fireplace but then started seeing rules and laws about smoke.

Every law I saw mentioned wood STOVES and not fireplaces. The only info I could find was saying you can't use your fireplace during a burn ban, which I'm assuming means indoor and outdoor fireplaces or firepits.

It seems like there is a distinction between older stoves and that those rules don't apply to normal fireplaces in a house.

Just wanted to get some input on if we buy a house with a fireplace or a nice area to have a backyard BBQ and fire, will we have a swat team arrive and carry us away 😂

Every morning it feels like I'm waking up to another shooting and murder, another war starting, another animal going extinct or a policy gutting environmental protections and promoting corporations over communities and I wonder how this keeps being allowed to happen

Then I read the comments...

I know comments aren't representative of a community as a whole and should only represent a vocal minority online, but I hear them in person when going to the store, and I hear my coworkers echoing the same ideas.

Like the mosque shooting today, every random person in my town seems to be commenting on the local news post about it saying they deserved it and this country is better without "those people". Clicking on their profiles and it's someone that works at a car dealership, or a school, or a local construction company. This hate has infiltrated everything. It is no longer a fringe belief that people try to hide. They're totally fine with publicly admitting what people they think deserve to live.

Sort of a rant. But it's exhausting to keep seeing this every day knowing nothing is going to change and people are just getting worse.