I just had a friend tell me he's buying a house that was built in the 1890's. It has all wood floors and walls, but everything has been painted. He wants to hire me to help restore it as much as possible to original condition. The wall boards all have to come down for wiring, insulation and ductwork. My idea is to take the boards off the wall as carefully as possible, then run them through a drum sander to take off the paint. I have a single stage dust collector with a 1 micron bag that does a good job with the sander. I'm just wondering if anyone knows whether or not that's a good method to contain the paint, which more than likely has lead in it. The bottom bag is a heavy duty plastic garbage bag, so it wouldn't have to be dumped into anything else to take it to the appropriate waste facility. This seems to me a better way than taking it off the boards while they're still on the wall, then having to try to collect the paint scrapings, chips, dust, etc.
BTW, I plan on wearing a respirator no matter what the method.
For the floors, the only thing I can think of would be a floor sander with good dust collection capabilities.
Any comments? I'd especially like to hear from anyone that might have experience with remediating lead paint.
Thanks in advance,
Greg