The idea of LEAD pipes goes back to the Romans, they even made plates and cups form it. I feel for the poor blokes that processed the arsenic, they were worse off than the "Wallpaper People." Alex this was another "Out Of The Box" video. It was enjoyable as well as educational. Thanks...................
I love feeling like I know a fair to good bit of a subject, only to be blown away by new details I never even thought about! Like the unregulated and inconsistent stair steps and overall construction. I also didn’t know asbestos was a natural product found in nature! I recently watched a video discussing the over £263 million renovation on Buckingham Palace and all the MCM wiring they’re replacing and asbestos they’re removing and HVAC and other systems they’re upgrading and making more economical while they’re at it, all while maintaining the interior so that it doesn’t look like anything was touched at all! They’re outright cataloguing every wooden FLOORBOARD they’re able to save. Mama. Could you imagine if this amount of care was put into the preservation and maintenance of the Queen Mary!? I can’t even. With all that said, I wonder, in 50 to 100 years the kinds of toxic materials we live around and use that will be a hyped up in hindsight. Not to say we shouldn’t update and be more efficient and sustainable and avoid using such toxic products as lead and asbestos. But I do feel part of it is a marketing tactic by Big Home for financial game. Now it’s lead paint, but in 60 years, who knows what we’ll have to replace! Again. It’s a little nuanced. No to lead! No to asbestos! Just…at the same time……ehhh…….yeh know? Like you said, asbestos worked for the time and was okay and even effective if handled properly and not disturbed. Let’s not keep using it. But it’s all just interesting to me, the nuances involved.
I was wondering if that "archives room" actually exists on the queen mary, and might contain some unpublished materials on her original looks and renovations. Might have to break in one day, jk
@ksmith8477 yes the archives do exist on Queen Mary, it's actually a series of rooms spread out on about two decks, occupying some of the former cargo holds and baggage rooms. Although the word "archives" should be used loosely. Not all the items are properly sorted and stowed. None of the items are catalogued and documented. Things are often heaped into piles as high as the deck overheads. But some items are sorted into boxes, some items, like original curtains are on hangers with laundry plastic to protect them. But original carpets are in piles of rolls. There is also no climate control in the archives, and for years some of the potholes were left open to the elements, though I think they're closed now. The New management takes the archives and preservation a little more seriously than others that came before, they've made sure the archives are kept locked and that the archives are protected from the elements. There's rumor that they intend to digitally catalogue and properly store all the items in the archives but that's yet to happen. But yes, original blueprints and interior design catalogues are kept in the archives, so detailed that even carpets could be replicated down to the color, pattern, and stitching.
@@AlextheHistorianI did some research on since you mentioned it. Talk about a - not shocking - but jumpscare of a surprise. Black plastic utensils have always had a certain sleek, pure appearance. Makes me glad I mostly use wooden utensils these days.
Hi Alex! Have you ever seen a British television series called The 1900s House? It came out in 2000 and was a reality based series about a family who volunteers to spend three months in Victorian conditions in a 1900s house. Very intresting and educational!
@@AlextheHistorian There are a series of those for different periods. History Hit has published several of both the British ones and a similar set from PBS, so you might have seen it and not realized.
Very interesting video! Have you read about the Radium Girls? They were the factory workers who painted the radium on the watch dials. Very interesting to learn about, but also very sad.
@AlextheHistorian thank you will look forward to them, I really enjoyed the gas lamp history video, you really know how to present a story and info so that its enjoyable, your ghost apartment video a while back was awesome to listen to in the middle of the night.
@@jayrobinson7554 Wow, thanks so much! It's good to hear you like the content because I stress out sometimes hoping I'm making stuff people actually want to watch, as opposed to something too nerdy and boring to watch.
@@AlextheHistorian No need to stress about it mate, your content is very enjoyable and you have a good mixture of content for your target audience, I would love more spooky stories, you would be great at the vibe and mood of them kind of videos aswell. 👍🙂
We own several pieces of Uranium glassware, the radiation emitted is very low (barely above background). The bigger issue is particles coming off and ingesting it.
What great video. Hello Alex. I love this format. I would love to restore a Victorian house. However, you never know what kind of issues you will find. But that is great if you can save a house or building like that. I would imagine very rewarding. #HAZMAT #RMSQUEENMARY #VICTORIAN
We were young, new parents renting our first home. The slum lord ignored rental laws, and we knew nothing about lead or the laws. In 2009 my son got diagnosed with lead poisoning and that's only because I refused to leave the doctors office until they tested him. He was speech delayed and bruised incredibly easily, I didn't know much but I knew something was wrong and the doctors tried to dismiss me. Once we got the results I never allowed my kids back in that home. Two months later my son was already getting back on track and his vocabulary increased by 11 words. Please still check your homes and your LBL if you live in a home built pre 1980.
I lived in an apartment that the paint on the window sashes was peeling. I believe it was lead. The windows were so old that you had to pull pins in them and match it with the pin hole. My most recent apartment which is an old victorian house, was renovated. I can tell the paint is not lead. The paint doesn't chip and its very nicely done for an apartment. I don't have any concerns living here in this place.
I got a lead testing kit at Lowe's once to test the designs on some older dishes I had. Not real old. Just from the early 2000s. I do remember the ad from the 70s warning about lead paint. With the little child in an old apartment building peeling off a piece of paint and putting it in his mouth.
Thanks a lot for ruining my fantasy on living in a quaint Victorian home! Jk. Lol. No, I really find it interesting on how perilous it could definitely be if one had to reside in one of those homes prior to the establishment of health and safety codes. Fascinating video! Thank you for taking some time in researching the topic of past construction methods and how they affected the inhabitants of that era. You have a great week! 😊
I remember when I use to work at Avondale Shipyard here in New Orleans area, and pretty much anything that was painted on the navy ships had to be tested for lead before we were allowed to do anything to it from grinding, scraping, cutting, welding and so on. Because the US Navy had some kind of deal with the EPA to keep using it especially on the paint used on the Hull.
When I was a kid / teen my dad rewired several older homes with knob and tube wiring. After he disconnected it from the power (physically cut, not just turned off the breakers) I would sometimes help pull the wires. You had to go to each knob and pull the wires out of the notch before you could drag it out. It was much more time consuming than rewiring a modern system. (For safety, all house wiring should be checked and potentially rewired every 30-50 years.)
@@AlextheHistorian my old home had a coal chute, knob and tube still in use, and originally "black pipe" aka lead water mains it was retrofitted with copper water mains, but the knob and tube stayed till we moved out, also had a boiler radiator heating system all i know it was built in the 1880s
The idea of LEAD pipes goes back to the Romans, they even made plates and cups form it. I feel for the poor blokes that processed the arsenic, they were worse off than the "Wallpaper People." Alex this was another "Out Of The Box" video. It was enjoyable as well as educational. Thanks...................
Thanks! I'm trying come up with interesting content in this new format.
Love the Winchester house.
Me too!
I love feeling like I know a fair to good bit of a subject, only to be blown away by new details I never even thought about! Like the unregulated and inconsistent stair steps and overall construction. I also didn’t know asbestos was a natural product found in nature! I recently watched a video discussing the over £263 million renovation on Buckingham Palace and all the MCM wiring they’re replacing and asbestos they’re removing and HVAC and other systems they’re upgrading and making more economical while they’re at it, all while maintaining the interior so that it doesn’t look like anything was touched at all! They’re outright cataloguing every wooden FLOORBOARD they’re able to save.
Mama.
Could you imagine if this amount of care was put into the preservation and maintenance of the Queen Mary!? I can’t even.
With all that said, I wonder, in 50 to 100 years the kinds of toxic materials we live around and use that will be a hyped up in hindsight. Not to say we shouldn’t update and be more efficient and sustainable and avoid using such toxic products as lead and asbestos. But I do feel part of it is a marketing tactic by Big Home for financial game. Now it’s lead paint, but in 60 years, who knows what we’ll have to replace! Again. It’s a little nuanced. No to lead! No to asbestos! Just…at the same time……ehhh…….yeh know? Like you said, asbestos worked for the time and was okay and even effective if handled properly and not disturbed. Let’s not keep using it. But it’s all just interesting to me, the nuances involved.
You're right about the future and discovering we've been living around toxic products. Did you hear the recent findings about black plastic?
I was wondering if that "archives room" actually exists on the queen mary, and might contain some unpublished materials on her original looks and renovations. Might have to break in one day, jk
@ksmith8477 yes the archives do exist on Queen Mary, it's actually a series of rooms spread out on about two decks, occupying some of the former cargo holds and baggage rooms. Although the word "archives" should be used loosely. Not all the items are properly sorted and stowed. None of the items are catalogued and documented. Things are often heaped into piles as high as the deck overheads. But some items are sorted into boxes, some items, like original curtains are on hangers with laundry plastic to protect them. But original carpets are in piles of rolls. There is also no climate control in the archives, and for years some of the potholes were left open to the elements, though I think they're closed now.
The New management takes the archives and preservation a little more seriously than others that came before, they've made sure the archives are kept locked and that the archives are protected from the elements. There's rumor that they intend to digitally catalogue and properly store all the items in the archives but that's yet to happen.
But yes, original blueprints and interior design catalogues are kept in the archives, so detailed that even carpets could be replicated down to the color, pattern, and stitching.
@@AlextheHistorian wow! I do hope they will make a digital catalog eventually!
@@AlextheHistorianI did some research on since you mentioned it. Talk about a - not shocking - but jumpscare of a surprise. Black plastic utensils have always had a certain sleek, pure appearance. Makes me glad I mostly use wooden utensils these days.
Hi Alex! Have you ever seen a British television series called The 1900s House? It came out in 2000 and was a reality based series about a family who volunteers to spend three months in Victorian conditions in a 1900s house. Very intresting and educational!
Oh wow, no I haven't seen it. But I saw something similar from the History Hit RUclips channel.
I have never heard of it but that's my next search my curiosity has been awakened!
@@AlextheHistorian There are a series of those for different periods. History Hit has published several of both the British ones and a similar set from PBS, so you might have seen it and not realized.
Very interesting video!
Have you read about the Radium Girls? They were the factory workers who painted the radium on the watch dials. Very interesting to learn about, but also very sad.
Indeed, the Radium Girls had such a deceptive job...they didn't know what would happen to them until it was too late.
I'm really enjoying these kinds of videos Alex, please keep doing them they are fascinating, thank you.
Thanks Jay, I will!
@AlextheHistorian thank you will look forward to them, I really enjoyed the gas lamp history video, you really know how to present a story and info so that its enjoyable, your ghost apartment video a while back was awesome to listen to in the middle of the night.
@@jayrobinson7554 Wow, thanks so much! It's good to hear you like the content because I stress out sometimes hoping I'm making stuff people actually want to watch, as opposed to something too nerdy and boring to watch.
@@AlextheHistorian No need to stress about it mate, your content is very enjoyable and you have a good mixture of content for your target audience, I would love more spooky stories, you would be great at the vibe and mood of them kind of videos aswell. 👍🙂
@jayrobinson7554 maybe I'd have to do that on a separate channel.
I lived in an old old home..didn't realize lead issues and arsenic in the wallpaper...but the home was awesome!
My dads house had that find of wiring. And round fuses! In the early 2000s its a miracle i only saw 1 thing catch fire(space heater).
I love the Victorian era. They really had elegant taste in a lot of homes back then.
They certainly did!
We own several pieces of Uranium glassware, the radiation emitted is very low (barely above background). The bigger issue is particles coming off and ingesting it.
What great video. Hello Alex. I love this format. I would love to restore a Victorian house. However, you never know what kind of issues you will find. But that is great if you can save a house or building like that. I would imagine very rewarding. #HAZMAT #RMSQUEENMARY #VICTORIAN
Thanks so much Aaron!
Great video
Thank you!
@AlextheHistorian very welcome
We were young, new parents renting our first home. The slum lord ignored rental laws, and we knew nothing about lead or the laws. In 2009 my son got diagnosed with lead poisoning and that's only because I refused to leave the doctors office until they tested him. He was speech delayed and bruised incredibly easily, I didn't know much but I knew something was wrong and the doctors tried to dismiss me. Once we got the results I never allowed my kids back in that home. Two months later my son was already getting back on track and his vocabulary increased by 11 words.
Please still check your homes and your LBL if you live in a home built pre 1980.
We still have lead pipes in our home, good practice to run the tap for a minute before getting water
I lived in an apartment that the paint on the window sashes was peeling. I believe it was lead. The windows were so old that you had to pull pins in them and match it with the pin hole.
My most recent apartment which is an old victorian house, was renovated. I can tell the paint is not lead. The paint doesn't chip and its very nicely done for an apartment. I don't have any concerns living here in this place.
@@cameronrichardson3108this! And run cold, not hot water if you're making tea or coffee
Great information!
Thank you!
This is probably why Mrs. Winchester died so young
I got a lead testing kit at Lowe's once to test the designs on some older dishes I had. Not real old. Just from the early 2000s. I do remember the ad from the 70s warning about lead paint. With the little child in an old apartment building peeling off a piece of paint and putting it in his mouth.
Thanks a lot for ruining my fantasy on living in a quaint Victorian home! Jk. Lol. No, I really find it interesting on how perilous it could definitely be if one had to reside in one of those homes prior to the establishment of health and safety codes. Fascinating video! Thank you for taking some time in researching the topic of past construction methods and how they affected the inhabitants of that era. You have a great week! 😊
Thank you so much, you too!
I remember when I use to work at Avondale Shipyard here in New Orleans area, and pretty much anything that was painted on the navy ships had to be tested for lead before we were allowed to do anything to it from grinding, scraping, cutting, welding and so on. Because the US Navy had some kind of deal with the EPA to keep using it especially on the paint used on the Hull.
Very interesting!
When I was a kid / teen my dad rewired several older homes with knob and tube wiring. After he disconnected it from the power (physically cut, not just turned off the breakers) I would sometimes help pull the wires. You had to go to each knob and pull the wires out of the notch before you could drag it out. It was much more time consuming than rewiring a modern system. (For safety, all house wiring should be checked and potentially rewired every 30-50 years.)
7:42 Lol why the heck is he holding that I'd be having a panic attack if that was in my hands awesome vid btw
Yeah lol, I'd be worried about getting fibers lodged under my nails or in the skin of my fingers then next time I rub my eyes...
Interesting Alex thanks see you live tonight.
Gosh now I’m afraid to eat the paint chips!😮
But...they're so tasty!
knob and tube was only designed for 30 amp service if not less, and mostly only lights
Which explains why housefires were so common when people were connecting appliances to their lamp sockets.
@@AlextheHistorian my old home had a coal chute, knob and tube still in use, and originally "black pipe" aka lead water mains it was retrofitted with copper water mains, but the knob and tube stayed till we moved out, also had a boiler radiator heating system all i know it was built in the 1880s
You are cool 😎