Posted by DJ Craig No, you're good. As long as you weren't licking anything there! You weren't, were you? Lead is really only dangerous if ingested. Only 30-40 years ago, they used to make tons of everyday items out of lead. Everyone touched it with bare skin all the time, and the vast majority of those people will never have any effects from it. Just walking around a building like that, you probably didn't even touch it with bare skin, let alone ingest it. And there's nothing wrong with exploring an active demolition site! I've done it myself many times - they can be incredibly beautiful in their own unique way!
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Spot on.
You have to ingest a lot of lead based paint to get lead poisoning. I mean a lot.
I worked with marine grade lead based paint which had much more lead in it. We got covered in it, ate lunch without washing our hands on the bridge. No one ever showed elevated lead levels on blood tests even after 3 months of it.
When you dry sand lead base paint it has an almond like odor; easy as hell to ID. You need many nose fulls of that dust to get lead poisoning. Days/weeks worth. A couple breathes of it won't do anything.
I've worked with lead based solders for over 25 years, know people who heated their coffee cups up with soldering irons for years. No lead poisoning.
The biggest hazard with lead is heating it up above 1150 F; it will emit lead dioxide fumes. Lead metal fume fever ain't pretty.
Instant lead poisoning... Posted by 2Xplorations
Guessing you've ever been to an indoor shooting range? nothing like shoving a non-jacketed lead slug through a hot rifled barrel at 1800fps to aerosolize you some lead, sweet tasting lead mmm... most ranges couldn't pass state and local EPA safe levels so theyve had to install massive exhaust systems and filters in recent years
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This is a valid concern. Concentrations can be high and repeated exposures compound the insult.
Prenatal babies and children are especially vulnerable to lead poisoning and it's damage.