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| Using a heat gun to strip old paint |
Whether you grew up watching "Perry Mason," "The Paper Chase," or "Law and Order"; chances are that you've been given the impression that lawyers are the smartest people in the room. All it takes, however, is serving on one jury to realize that's a mistaken impression. Maybe lawyers know about legal jargon, but get 'em in a room with a plumber or an electrician and they're sunk. That's why we were amazed that eHowian
George Lawrence J.D. (yes, he includes the "J.D." in his byline) stepped away from the thousands of semi-legal queries at the mother site and took on "
Non Toxic Ways to Remove Paint from Woodwork."¹ He should've kept dancing with the one what brung him...
We won't go into great detail about Lawrence J.D.'s findings, except to point out that he should probably read his resources more closely. For instance, he says that
"...[a mixture of] three parts rubbing alcohol with one part lemon juice[is] able to remove dried latex paint from wood floors..."
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Had he actually read that article, he would have noticed that this article is about removing splatter from painting walls... George then goes on to wax ecstatic about two commercial products (neither of which he had ever heard of before, one can be certain), both of which he assures his readers are "all natural and 100 percent biodegradable." Apparently George forgot that "natural" has no legal definition... That's not to mention that one of his "references" is a press release. The MSDS for that product states that the chemical involved "causes skin burns and severe eye damage." We don't think that lye is considered "non-toxic" by most people... |
George didn't bother to do the research, but there are non-chemical methods of removing paint. One is scraping and sanding (though not necessarily a good idea if there is lead paint). A second is a good old-fashioned heat gun. Yes, people, a super-powered hair dryer may be just the ticket!
You'd never know any of that from reading this guy's post. Perhaps Lawrence, J.D., should have stuck to writing about "how to become a car dealer in Canada" instead of branching out into DIY paint-stripping. But he didn't, so George is now the proud owner of another
Dumbass of the Day award;
his third.
¹ The original has been deleted by Leaf Group, but can still be accessed using the Wayback machine at archive.org. Its URL was ehow.com/way_5556699_non-ways-remove-paint-woodwork.html
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