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This is why I stopped eating paint chips.
by TheBlight 3y ago
This is why I stopped eating paint chips.
- clumsysmurf 3y agoSome of my bloodwork revealed subclinical lead poisoning. Part of the investigation was to take the dirty A/C filter in for lab analysis of the dust. I had lead in that filter, so I moved out. No idea where it came from. EDIT: It was an apartment. FWIW, even new apartments can have other issues, like a brand new place my friend was working on had rampant mold issues (built & exposed throughout monsoon season). So you really have to be careful.
- giantg2 3y agoWho bought the place after disclosing airbourne lead dust in the house?
- brianwawok 3y agoif you are renting (in most / all? of the US), no way the next person would know.
- acuozzo 3y agoPerhaps OP had a rental with an in-unit AC unit which is pretty common here in the US.
- sokoloff 3y agoIf it was a rental, GP would never know who moved in next. (I would describe leaving a rental as "moved out" and leaving a house I owned as "sold it". Given they used "moved out", I'd wager even-money it was a rental.)
- clumsysmurf 3y agoIt was an apartment with central cooling.
- pixl97 3y agoSoils in many major US cities can have high amounts of lead. If you're not controlling how much dust is tracked in that very well could be detected.
- asdff 3y agoIn california if you sign a lease for a building built at least 20 years ago you probably get a boilerplate lead warning document as well. Its like a prop 65 situation where so many things are labelled that the label itself loses meaning.
- fyloraspit 3y agoPerhaps significant enough vaper from plumbing solder made it into AC unit or some other building or trade technique which involves some lead
- sokoloff 3y agoPlumbing solder is overwhelmingly lead-free and has been for years. Even if leaded solder was used, the vapors from soldering are flux residues, not lead.