{"id":17753,"date":"2021-04-05T10:26:39","date_gmt":"2021-04-05T14:26:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.mesotheliomahope.com\/?page_id=17753"},"modified":"2024-09-09T19:41:47","modified_gmt":"2024-09-09T23:41:47","slug":"paint","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.mesotheliomahope.com\/products\/paint\/","title":{"rendered":"Paint"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>Asbestos in Paint<\/h2>\n<p>Something most paints had in common during the twentieth century was they contained lethal amounts of asbestos.<\/p>\n<p>Most people know that lead-based paints are dangerous. Thankfully lead paints are now obsolete. So is asbestos paint.<\/p>\n<p>However, from the early 1900s until the 1980s, millions of American homes and vehicle painters used paints containing asbestos additives. The shipbuilding industry was particularly guilty of applying asbestos paint.<\/p>\n<div data-vqueid=\"18408\" class=\"widget widget_oscar-vque default image-left has-img\"><style type=\"text\/css\" data-style=\"default\">.widget_oscar-vque.default{margin:60px auto;max-width:315px}.widget_oscar-vque.default:first-child{margin-top:0}.widget_oscar-vque.default:last-child{margin-bottom:0}.widget_oscar-vque.default>a{background:#2F293D;display:block;padding:20px;border-radius:10px;color:#fff;text-decoration:none}.widget_oscar-vque.default img{margin:0 auto 20px;max-width:150px;width:100%}.widget_oscar-vque.default .vque-content{font-size:16px;text-align:center}.widget_oscar-vque.default strong.subheading{display:block;line-height:1;font-size:14px;margin-bottom:5px}.widget_oscar-vque.default strong.heading{font-size:20px;display:block;margin:0 0 25px}.widget_oscar-vque.default ul{font-size:16px;text-align:left;list-style:none;max-width:265px;line-height:1.4;margin:15px auto 25px}.widget_oscar-vque.default ul li{padding-left:28px;margin-bottom:10px}.widget_oscar-vque.default ul li:last-child{margin-bottom:0}.widget_oscar-vque.default ul li:before{font-family:\"mesohope\" !important;font-display:swap;speak:none;font-style:normal;font-weight:normal;font-variant:normal;text-transform:none;line-height:1;-webkit-font-smoothing:antialiased;-moz-osx-font-smoothing:grayscale;content:\"\\e904\";border:none;position:absolute;left:0;top:0;background:#0FAEBF;width:20px;height:20px;border-radius:20px;line-height:20px;text-align:center;font-size:12px}.widget_oscar-vque.default strong.button.arrow{width:100%}@media screen and (min-width: 768px){.widget_oscar-vque.default{max-width:620px}.widget_oscar-vque.default>a{padding:0}.widget_oscar-vque.default>a>div{display:block;display:flex;align-items:center;flex-wrap:wrap;flex-direction:row-reverse}.widget_oscar-vque.default>a>div>div{padding:0 25px 0 0;width:41%}.widget_oscar-vque.default>a .vque-content{width:59%;padding:30px;text-align:left}.widget_oscar-vque.default img{max-width:90%;margin-bottom:0}.widget_oscar-vque.default strong.subheading{font-size:16px}.widget_oscar-vque.default strong.heading{font-size:24px;margin:0 0 16px}.widget_oscar-vque.default ul{max-width:none}.widget_oscar-vque.default strong.button.arrow{width:auto}.widget_oscar-vque.default.image-left>a>div{display:block;position:relative;overflow:hidden}.widget_oscar-vque.default.image-left>a>div img{max-width:100%}.widget_oscar-vque.default.image-left>a>div>div{float:left}.widget_oscar-vque.default.image-left>a>div>div:first-child{width:27%;padding:30px}.widget_oscar-vque.default.image-left>a>div>div.vque-content{width:73%;padding-left:0}}<\/style><a href=\"\/asbestos-guide\/\" title=\"Free Asbestos Products Guide\" class=\"cte\" data-ce-category=\"In-Content Ads\" data-ce-label=\"Free Asbestos Products Guide Ad\" data-desktop-image=\"https:\/\/www.mesotheliomahope.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/Guide-Mock_badge-e1619618205486.png\"><div><div><div class=\"image-fade\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"323\" height=\"332\" src=\"https:\/\/www.mesotheliomahope.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/Guide-Mock_badge-e1619618205486.png\" class=\"attachment-Medium size-Medium wp-post-image\" alt=\"Free Guide\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.mesotheliomahope.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/Guide-Mock_badge-e1619618205486.png 323w, https:\/\/www.mesotheliomahope.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/Guide-Mock_badge-e1619618205486-292x300.png 292w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 323px) 100vw, 323px\" \/><\/div><\/div><div class=\"vque-content\"><strong class=\"subheading\">Download Your Asbestos Guide<\/strong><strong class=\"heading\">Free Asbestos Products Guide<\/strong><ul>\n<li>Asbestos safety info<\/li>\n<li>Products containing asbestos<\/li>\n<li>Common exposure risks<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong class=\"button arrow\" title=\"Get Your Free Guide\">Get Your Free Guide<\/strong><\/p><\/div><\/div><\/a><\/div>\n<h2>Reasons for Using Asbestos in Paint<\/h2>\n<p>There were good reasons for putting <a href=\"\/asbestos\/\">asbestos<\/a> in paint, originally.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Some reasons for putting asbestos in paint include:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>First, asbestos is a naturally-occurring mineral filler that was widely available and dirt cheap. That alone made the paint industry flock to asbestos.<\/li>\n<li>Next, asbestos was stable and gave increased tensile strength to paint products and improved their holding power.<\/li>\n<li>Finally, asbestos was lightweight, fireproof, excellent insulation, non-corrosive, chemically inert, and didn&#8217;t conduct electricity.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The paint industry thought they&#8217;d discovered a miracle product when someone first thought of adding an asbestos powder to paint mixes.<\/p>\n<p>It was initially a filler that gave paint extra body, but painters soon realized that asbestos materials allowed liquid paint to flow well and stay stable in hot and cold temperatures. Asbestos additives also let color pigments remain suspended so that once mixed frequent re-stirring was unnecessary.<\/p>\n<h2>Paint and Airborne Asbestos Exposure<\/h2>\n<p>Everyone in the paint industry who used asbestos paint additives was at risk of airborne asbestos exposure. That included factory and field workers.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Some industries using asbestos paint included:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul class=\"special gears\">\n<li>Automotive factories used asbestos paint because it was durable and non-corrosive.<\/li>\n<li>Aircraft assemblers found asbestos paint lightweight and aerodynamically smooth.<\/li>\n<li>Shipbuilders coated vessels with asbestos paint because it was fireproof, didn\u2019t rust, insulated well and controlled sound.<\/li>\n<li>Chemical plants needed inert paints that didn\u2019t react with materials and asbestos paint did that perfectly.<\/li>\n<li>Interior decorators loved asbestos paints for their textured walls and popcorn ceilings so popular in the 60s and 70s.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Asbestos is only dangerous when it\u2019s in a raw fiber form or dried additive to the paint. Once the asbestos paint was applied and dried, it was relatively stable and safe.<\/p>\n<p>But disturb dried asbestos paint, and tiny microscopic fibers are released. Asbestos fibers are extraordinarily light and frequently go airborne.<\/p>\n<div class=\"callout-shortcode\"><style type=\"text\/css\">.callout-shortcode{background:#EDF8F9;border-radius:0 10px 10px 0;padding:20px 20px 20px 24px;margin:40px 0;max-width:860px;position:relative}.callout-shortcode:before{content:\" \";position:absolute;top:0;bottom:0;width:4px;height:100%;left:0;background:linear-gradient(180deg, #0FAEBF 0%, #EDF8F9 100%)}.callout-shortcode .callout-shortcode-heading{color:#100134;font-size:22px;display:block;margin:0 0 15px}.callout-shortcode:first-child{margin-top:0}.callout-shortcode:last-child{margin-bottom:0}.callout-shortcode .img-wrap{margin-bottom:20px}.callout-shortcode.hope>strong{padding-top:17px;padding-bottom:15px;padding-left:74px}.callout-shortcode.hope .img-wrap{left:22px;position:absolute;top:20px;width:59px}.callout-shortcode.hope .img-wrap:before{background:#fff url(\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/mh-icon-65.png);background-position:center;background-repeat:no-repeat;background-size:70%;border-radius:30px;bottom:-10px;content:\"\";display:block;height:30px;position:absolute;right:-10px;width:30px}@media screen and (min-width: 768px){.callout-shortcode{padding:25px 25px 25px 34px}.callout-shortcode .callout-shortcode-heading{font-size:24px}.callout-shortcode .img-wrap{margin-bottom:0}.callout-shortcode.has-img{min-height:170px;padding-left:175px}.callout-shortcode.has-img .img-wrap{position:absolute;left:29px;top:25px;width:119px}.callout-shortcode.hope.has-img{padding-left:170px}.callout-shortcode.hope>strong{padding:0}.callout-shortcode.hope .img-wrap{width:109px}.callout-shortcode.hope .img-wrap:before{background-size:66%;bottom:-15px;height:42px;width:42px}}<\/style><div class=\"content\"><p>Most commercial paint mixes contained between 10 and 20 percent of raw asbestos powder. But many painters mixed paints on-site and bought raw asbestos fibers to stir in themselves. Bags of asbestos powder were as standard as brushes in most painters&#8217; kits. No one told these early painters just how dangerous asbestos exposure was.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<p>This process happens when painters sanded old asbestos paints from surfaces which occurred all the time. Other workers would disturb asbestos-painted surfaces during renovations and demolitions.<\/p>\n<p>It wasn\u2019t just house painters that preferred asbestos paints. Practically every construction project and manufacturing industry applied asbestos paint in the seven decades they were available.<\/p>\n<h2><strong>Asbestos<\/strong> Paint<strong> and<\/strong> Mesothelioma<\/h2>\n<p>By the 1930s, warnings about asbestos exposure from all building materials crept out. That included cautions about using asbestos-based paint as well as over 3,000 other products containing asbestos.<\/p>\n<p>By the mid-1980s, the United States Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) put an end to asbestos use in paint and practically every other manufactured product.<\/p>\n<p>Despite early warnings, asbestos producers and paint suppliers intentionally hid information about airborne asbestos exposure health risks.<\/p>\n<div class=\"call-cta simple\"><style type=\"text\/css\">.entry-content .call-cta{background:#F3F2F0;border-radius:10px;margin:50px 0 60px;overflow:hidden;padding:0}.entry-content .call-cta>a{color:#383441;display:block;padding:20px;position:relative;text-decoration:none}.entry-content .call-cta>a:hover{color:#fff}.entry-content .call-cta h2,.entry-content .call-cta h3,.entry-content .call-cta h4{color:#100134}.entry-content .call-cta h2:only-child,.entry-content .call-cta h3:only-child,.entry-content .call-cta h4:only-child{margin-bottom:0}@media screen and (min-width: 768px){.call-cta.simple{margin-left:auto;margin-right:auto;max-width:768px}.call-cta.simple>a{padding:30px 310px 30px 30px}.call-cta.simple h2{margin-bottom:0}.call-cta.simple h2+p:not(:last-child){margin-top:20px}.call-cta.simple p:last-child{margin:0;position:absolute;right:30px;top:50%;transform:translateY(-50%)}}@media screen and (min-width: 1024px){.call-cta h2{font-size:32px}}<\/style><a href=\"\/about\/contact\/\" title=\"Get More Answers to Your Questions About Mesothelioma\" data-ce-category=\"CTA Shortcode\" data-ce-label=\"Get More Answers to Your Questions About Mesothelioma\"><h2>Get More Answers to Your Questions About Mesothelioma<\/h2><p><span class=\"button outline white\">Contact Us Now<\/span><\/p><\/a><\/div>\n<p>Today, asbestos is well known to have lethal effects from long-term exposure to asbestos fibers. Sadly, millions of painters used asbestos paint to paint American homes, trains, planes, and automobiles.<\/p>\n<p>When a person inhales asbestos fibers, the fibers attach to the lung lining, which is called the mesothelium. Asbestos fibers never release. They stay in the mesothelium for the rest of the individual&#8217;s life and eventually create scar tissue.<\/p>\n<p>There&#8217;s an extended latency period, but ultimately, scar tissue turns to tumors and becomes the deadly disease <a href=\"\/mesothelioma\/\">mesothelioma<\/a>.<\/p>\n<h2>Compensation for Mesothelioma Victims<\/h2>\n<p>Mesothelioma is a fatal form of lung cancer. Advanced <a href=\"\/mesothelioma\/stages\/\">stages of mesothelioma<\/a> are incurable.<\/p>\n<p>If you developed mesothelioma due to asbestos exposure, you may be able to seek <a href=\"\/legal\/compensation\/\">compensation<\/a>\u00a0to cover medical expenses, lost time, and personal injury. Family members can claim compensation for mesothelioma victims. They can also file wrongful death lawsuits.<\/p>\n<p>For more information on whether you may qualify for compensation, <a href=\"\/about\/contact\/\">contact us<\/a> to learn more.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Asbestos in Paint Something most paints had in common during the twentieth century was they contained lethal amounts of asbestos. Most people know that lead-based paints are dangerous. Thankfully lead paints are now obsolete. So is asbestos paint. 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