>>tiresome or dangerous scraping; ya just schmear it on over the 
already-blistering and dirt-encrusted lead?paint. which is an ideal 
base. Yeah, right.<<

I'm not advocating the use of this stuff, but I have used it. "Schmear" 
is what many applicators would only be capable of, but would probably 
not be a good technique. "Laid on" might be better. For prep, any loose 
paint chips and dust can be safety HEPA vacced off, then application of 
this stuff. The stuff I have used is waterborne but also has a solvent 
in it. The solvent slightly softens loose paint chips that are still in 
place, and tends to (or actually does) flatten and heal them back down 
to the substrate.

Of course, there will be some paint surface conditions where this stuff 
does just make a mess that is more difficult to deal with than the 
original condition.

The real problem here is that the "product" is supposed to solve the 
problem. There is no success that comes from "product." Success comes 
from method, knowledge-based labor, etc.

JOhn

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