The Oakley eagle. [volume] (Oakley, Idaho) 1901-1908, 1906-11-01

Burning Off Paint Makes Insurance
Void.

1t seems that considerable danger to (
property exists in the practice of
burning off old paint before re-palnt.
Ing. The question has long been a
subject of debate in the technical
journals, and now householders and
the newspapers have begun to discuss
1t. Those of us who, with trembling
have watched the painters blow
fiery blast from their lamps against
our houses. and have looked sadly al
the size # our painting bin because
of the time wasted on this prelimin-
airy work, are interested in the in
yestigation 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 off 1t says:
There is a good deal of discussion
among householders 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
! field and elsewhere, Insurance men
are strongly opposed to this method.
IL makes void insurance policies for
hres 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
result
1t is undoubtedly true that when
a house has been painted over and
over again there comes to be an &C
cumulation of paint in punches. II
new paint is put on top of these ac-
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 ac-
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 adulter-
ated paints instead of old-fashioned
linseed oil and pure white lead. The
paper says:
Many of the old householders saw
that If care is taken at all these points
It 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. OF
course the burning off of paint greatly
increases the cost of the Job
The trouble householders everywhere
have with paint is pretty well summed
up by our contemporary, and the
J causes,are about the same everywhere
by Tar the most frequent cause of the
necessity for the dangerous practice
! OF burning old paint is the use of pool
! material. The oil should be pure lin
seed and the white lead should be rea
white lead. The latter is more OTTER
tempered with than the OIL Earthly
, substances, and pulverized rock ant
| quartz, are frequently used as cheap
eners, to the great detriment of the
7 paint.
Painters rarely adulterate white
lead themselves and they very seldom
use ready prepared paints-the mos
frequent causes of paint trouble. Blu
, they do often buy adulterated whit,
, lead because the property owner in
sists on low price and the painte
has to economic somewhere. TIL,
: suggestion is therefore a good one
that the property owner investigat,
the subject a little find out the nam,
of some reliable brand of white lead
d and see that the key is marked will
3 that brand
The linseed oil is more difficult {,
be sure of, as it is usually sold il
bulk when the quantity is small; bu
> reliable makers of linseed oil can b.
learned on inquiry, and, if your deale
is reliable, you will get what you want
Pure white lead and linseed oil ar
so necessary to good paint that tn
little trouble necessary to get then
we'll repays the house owner in dollar
and cents saved.