The Idaho recorder. [volume] (Salmon City, Idaho) 1886-1927, 1906-10-04
A DANGEROUS PRACTICE.
Burning on Paint Makes Insurance
Void.


II seems that considerable danger to
property exists in the practice of
burning on old paint before re-paint-
ing. The question has long been a
subject of debate In the technical
journals, and now householders and
the newspapers have begun to discuss
II. Those of US who. with trembling.
have watched the painters blow
hery blast from their lamps against
our houses. and have looked sadly at
the size of our painting bill because
OF the time wasted on this preiimin-
airy work. are interested in the In
vestigation by the Greenfield Mass
Gazette and Courier. which gives con
siderable space to the reasons for the
practice, questions its necessity and
suggests ways TO prevent the risk of
burning down ones house in order to
get the old paint OF. ID says:
There is good deal of discussion
among honseholders as TO the desir-
ability. In painting houses. OF burning
on the old paint. a practice that has
grown very common of late In Green.
Held and elsewhere. Insurance men
are strongly opposed to this method
II makes void insurance policies for
fres caused In this manner. Several
houses in Greenfield have gotten afire
as the result of this method, and in
some places houses have burned as q
result.
TT is undoubtedly true that when
a house has been painted over and
over again there comes to be an nc,
emulation of paint In punches. II
new paint is put on top OF these ac-
cumulations II is almost sure To bills.
ter To burn IL OF 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 nc
foundations of paint are unnecessary
These oldtimers lay the blame partl,
on the painter who fails TO brush hi,
paint In well. partly on the custom o
painting In damp weather or not allow
ing sufficient time for drying between
coats, and partly 10 the use Of adulter
ated paints instead of old Fashioned
linseed oil and pure white lead Tn,
paper says.
MANY OF the old householders sa,
that II care is taken at all these point
1t Is absolutely unnecessary 10 hay,
paint burned of. They advise tina
people who have houses painted shout
buy their own materials. and 10 hav
them put on by the day, so as 60 b
sure To get good lead and oil, O
course the burning of of paint great
increases the cost of the job"
The trouble householders everywher
have with paint is pretty we'll summe
up by our contemporary, and th
causes are about the same everywher,
by far the most frequent cause OF IN
necessity for the dangerous praotlo
OF burning old paint Is the use OF poo
material. The oil should be pure III
seed and the white lead should be reI
white lead. The latter is more ofte
tempered with than the oil Earth
t substances. and pulyerized rock an
= quartz, are frequently used az cheal
Q eners, to the great dctriment of III
y paint
!. Painters rarely adulterate whit
lead themselves and they very seidol
use ready prepared painta--the MOI
frequent causes of paint trouble. 81
l. they do often buy aduterated WIFI,
!, lead because the property owner 4
y sists on n low price and the paint,
. has to economic somewhere. III
suggestion is therefore good OF
+. that the property owner investigai
the subject a little. find out the nan
of some reliable brand of white lea
and see that the keg is marked wit
q that brand.
The linsoed oil IL more difioult
be sure OF. as II in usually sold
Il bulk when the quantity is small. b.
n reliable makers OF linseed oil can
d learned on Inquiry. and. II your deal,
"a IA reliable. you win get what you wan
II. Pure white lead and linReod oil a.
a so necessary 10 good paint that u
little trouble necessary 20 get tho
well repayH the house owner In dolla
~ and cents saved