The whole lead paint thing is frustrating because of the half hearted approach. Assuming this really is the scourge to children depicted and attested by BI anecdote then why such a weak response?
I saw a This Old House episode maybe 20 years ago where they stripped and scraped lead paint off door jambs with chemical stripper and heat but stoped at 4 or 5 feet up the jamb, the belief was children would not reach any higher. Maybe five or ten years ago, on the same show, they wrapped the house in plastic, wrapped the worker in tyvek and sand blasted. Surely children haven't changed that much in the last ten years.
BI be careful what you admit to, there is no statute of limitations on stuff like this. A co-worker was tried in a civil court by the federal goverment and found finacially liable for disposing of toxic material (lead solder) in the 70's. He disposed of the lead in a way that was legal in the 70's, but is illegal now, he still had to pay.
When the goverment went after the toxic waste problem it went after the people profiting from the materials. This included the people making the waste and dumping it. Maybe they should do the same for lead paint, go after the people who profited from selling this poison. Not after some poor homeowner that bought an old house.
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