Hazards of hiring tradies on a house with lead paint

Ugh. Seriously. The lead concerns are NEVER ENDING in our house. If you know my background, we spent years and incredible stress to renovate the lead hazards in our house. Then we worked our butts off and spent months and thousands of dollars to deal with the contaminated soil.

So last week we had some builders come over to finish the window frames and scribers around where weatherboards were replaced. Inside I thought I heard/saw scraping on the window frame. But I was confused since I knew there wasn’t any original window frame left on the sides there. My husband also confirmed this. So, we literally had no idea why this would happen….

But yesterday I went to check and found lead paint chips underneath the windows. On the ground. Mixed into the mulch/soil that was supposed to be clean now. Where my kids play sometimes messing around with whatever bits of wood and loose parts are there. 😔

So even when you think you’ve taken care of the vast majority of the lead paint in these old houses, it somehow finds a way to be exposed by builders and make fresh hazards!!!! 😡😭 I’m just beside myself.