11.   Children in an orphanage in the Romanian town of Sighisoara were becoming ill after sucking the old lead paint on the cots.

12.   Also, when grinding old paint off the wall, they did not use a vacuum to trap the paint particles, Arabzadeh said.

13.   Although we washed down the old paint first, the new latex paint chips off very easily.

14.   And if you paint over the old paint, you might have difficulty keeping it on it.

15.   And since the old paint is lead-based, building owners are reluctant to sandblast them off.

16.   As the old paint became chipped with weather and wear, workers merely covered it with a new coat, rather than stripping it off.

17.   Be sure to sand heavily, in fact get as much of the old paint off as possible, and also all rust.

18.   Because you are painting over old paint, paint with latex enamel undercoater before finish painting.

19.   A common exposure to lead comes via old paint, making children in poor neighborhoods especially vulnerable.

20.   Chances are fair to good that the old paint peeled because there was no primer applied.