by Nigel Costolloe | May 3, 2016 | Environmentally Friendly Paints, EPA-RPP, Lead-Safe Certified
I am a huge fan of Last Week Tonight with John Oliver and when his April 17, 2016 broadcast was about the dangers of lead it got me to thinking about how my coworkers, those fantastic men and women working as painters here at Catchlight Painting, work to make...
by Nigel Costolloe | Apr 27, 2014 | Brookline, Environmentally Friendly Paints, EPA-RPP, History, Interior Painting, Lead-Safe Certified, Residential Interior Painting, Safety
The EPA rolled out new regulations in 2010 designed to protect the occupants of homes where lead paint is being disturbed. Referred to as the RRP rule, or Renovate, Repair and Painting rule, these regulations affect any work performed in a house built before 1978...
by Nigel Costolloe | Dec 14, 2013 | EPA-RPP, Exterior Painting, Historic Restoration, History, Lead-Safe Certified, Wood Restoration
Old New England homes, peeling paint and a permanent, lifetime paint coating? I don’t think so. This summer we embarked upon the restoration of a 200 year old farmhouse in Stow. Initially we had assumed our city pricing would be a deterrent but further conversation...
by Nigel Costolloe | Sep 21, 2012 | Belmont, Environmentally Friendly Paints, EPA-RPP, Exterior Painting, Wood Restoration
In these photos below we have removed all flaking paint from a Belmont, MA home. The exterior walls looked sound from a distance but up close, each shingle showed a latticework of cracked paint – in painting parlance this is called ‘alligatoring’. It...
by Nigel Costolloe | Aug 22, 2011 | Customer Service, Environmentally Friendly Paints, EPA-RPP, Exterior Painting, Lead-Safe Certified
Each month seems to bring a new EPA clarification on how we are supposed to implement the RRP protocols while working on homes coated in lead-based paint. The article below introduces a new wrinkle, arguing that the current 10 foot rule is still inadequate in keeping...
