Last weekend was home improvement nightmare time. We recently got a letter from Texas Windstorm saying that they had come to inspect our roof, which was fine, but that we needed to fix the paint on our fascia boards by a certain date if we wanted to keep our policy. Um...the paint? I called and checked and they weren't kidding. The paint on our fascia boards has been peeling in an ugly the way the entire nine-plus years we have lived here. We have not wanted to mess with it because our house was built in 1949 and the exterior paint is lead paint and - not having bazillions of dollars for proper abatement - we didn't want to badly contaminate the yard messing with it.
Oh, well.
Lone Star Pa tried to be really careful and wet scrape, leaving as much intact as possible, but it just didn't work. It got all over the place. Very scary.
So, to wit: before, we had ugly paint but most of the yard was fine. Now, the paint looks okay, but the yard is contaminated with lead. Lovely. Thank you, Texas Windstorm. So sensible.
1 comment:
That is so wrong! Can tyou get them to pay for clean up?
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