Long Valley advocate. (Lardo, Idaho) 1904-1907, 1906-10-11
A DANGEROUS Practice
Burning Off Paint Makes ,r.n
Void. a"ce

burning off old paint before na OF
ing. The question has lono h pant
subject of debate in the tooS
Journals, and now householders D n
the newspapers have begun to diso auu
IL. lhose OF us who, with tremh,;S"
nave watched the painters hlom
merry blast from their lamns oaa'-
our houses, and have looked ooS,.- "''
the size OF our painting bill becaus"
OF the time wasted on this prelins;S
airy work, are interested in tbo -
vestlgatlon by the Greenfield CMooa
Gazette and Courier, which gives oon
siderable space to the reasons fon a.
practice, questions it's necessity ons
suggests ways to prevent the risk ~
burning down ones house in ordor ~
get the old paint off. 1t says:
There is good deal of discusSio,
among househOlders as to the dasir
ability, in painting houses, of BURNING
OH the old paint, a practice that has
grown very common of late in Green.
held and elsewhere. Insurance man
are strongly opposed to this method
1t makes void insurance policies for
fires caused in this manner. Several
houses in Greenfield have gotten afro
as the result of this method and in
some places houses haYe burned as
result.
1t is undoubtedly true that when
a house has been painted over and
over again there comes to be an AZ.
cumulatlon of paint in punches. If
new paint is put on top of these &C.
cumulations it is almost sure to Bills.
ter. To burn it off is the quickest
and cheapest and perhaps the surest
method of getting rid of this old
paint"
The Gazette and Courier quotes GER
tain old patrons to the effect that &C.
cumulations of paint are unnecessary.
These old-timers lay the blame partly
on the painter who fails to brush his
paint in well, partly on the custom of
painting in damp weather or not allow
Ing sufficient time for drying between
coats, and partly to the use of aduter-
ated paints instead of old-fashioned
linseed oil and pure white lead. The
paper says:
Many of the old householders say
that II care is taken at all these points
1T is absolutely unnecessary to have
paint burned off. They advise that
people who have houses painted should
buy their own materials, and to have
them put on by the day, SO as to be
sure to get good lead and oil. or
course the burning off of paint greatly
Increases the cost of the job"
The trouble householders everywhere
nave with paint is pretty well summed
up by our contemporary, and the
causes are about the same everywhere.
BY far the most frequent cause OF the
necessity for the dangerous practice
II burning old paint is the use OF poor
The oil should be pure lin
seed and the white lead should be real
White lead. The latter is more often
ampered with than the oil. Earthy
and pulverized rock and
luartz, are frequently used as cheap
,ners, to the great detriment of the
)aint.
Painters rarely adulterate wnlIe
cad themselves and they very seldom
lse ready prepared paints-the most
requent causes of paint trouble. But
hey do often buy adulterated wnlIe
cad because the property owner III
lists on low price and the painter
as to economic somewhere. Inc
uggestion is therefore a good one
hat the property owner 1nvestisa'0
he subject a little, find out the name
f some reliable brand of white Lead
nd see that the keg is marked Will
hat brand