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Remodeling doesn't sound like a healthy activity.
by rzzzt 5y ago
Remodeling doesn't sound like a healthy activity.
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- eropple 5y agoIt can be. It's physically taxing work but that's not a bad thing. Living where you're remodeling at the same time is stressful.
- rzzzt 5y agoI have no doubt that it is very fulfilling, but was thinking more of the dust, solvents, VOC, ie. the tiny things that are out to make you sick.
- eropple 5y agoAll those absolutely exist and you absolutely have to pay attention to them. And that is why your good friend Keen makes comfy ceramic-toed boots and your other good friend, the Minnesota Mining and Manufacturing Company, makes respirators with high-flow P100 filters and WorkTunes Bluetooth headphones/ear protection. I'm thankfully mostly done my last (for a while) remodel, but I spend a bunch of time in my wood shop, and I'm always struck by how much longer I can do stuff when I'm even just wearing an RZ mask even when I have the dust extraction on and the overhead filters going. Dead trees just make a lot of crap, let alone gypsum boards and the like.
- _3u10 5y agoStress and sitting at a desk all day kill just as effectively as gypsum dust. However it’s a lot easier for a remodeler to put on a P100 mask.
- swayvil 5y agoThe greatest danger is prolonged intellectual concentration. It will drive you stark raving bonkers and that's no lie. And it's so slow and gentle that you'll never know it. And when everybody around you suffers from the same derangement, it's considered perfectly normal
- JKCalhoun 5y agoIt can be physical too. Pretty sure my GI issues were caused from the stress of shipping software.