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Irving Lead Paint Removal deals with lead-painted doors and door frames in Irving homes and rental units built before 1978. A door is a friction and impact surface: its edges rub the jamb and stops, it gets kicked and banged, and the hinge side works paint loose every time it swings. On old paint that wear can leave lead dust on the floor of rooms children use. You cannot tell a lead-painted door by looking at it, so the first step is testing.
From there the choice is to adjust, strip or replace. We handle door work in Irving, Farmers Branch and Euless.
A door slab can come off its hinges, be wrapped and taken to a shop to be stripped and refinished, then rehung. That keeps an original solid or paneled door and takes the messiest part of the job out of the house. The jamb and casing stay behind, so they need their own treatment in place, and the opening is covered while the door is away.
Replacing a door, or a pre-hung door with its jamb and casing, removes the painted parts entirely. Pulling an old frame disturbs paint, so in a pre-1978 home the work follows RRP lead-safe practices when it is part of a repair or remodel, or abatement rules when the purpose is to remove the lead. Replacement makes sense for hollow-core or damaged doors, and in rentals where durability matters more than the original look.
Sometimes the hazard is the rubbing, not the paint itself. Resetting hinges, shimming or planing the door so it clears the jamb, and then sealing the edges stops the grinding. Planing a painted edge creates lead dust, though, so it is done with containment and HEPA cleanup, and this is an interim control: the lead-based paint is still there and needs checking over time.
A certified inspector or risk assessor can test the paint with an XRF analyzer or paint-chip samples sent to a lab, and a certified renovator can use an EPA-recognized test kit on the specific components a job will touch. A door and frame found free of lead-based paint can then be worked on without RRP practices. Testing is optional under EPA’s rule, but without paperwork showing the paint is not lead-based, the rule applies to the job.
The City of Irving requires building permits to erect, enlarge, alter, move, demolish or repair a structure, and says cosmetic work such as painting needs none. Its residential permits page does not say whether replacing an exterior door or frame needs a permit, so ask Irving Inspections before ordering one. Either way, the federal lead rules apply on their own terms, permit or not.
Doors in a rental are opened and closed by a series of households, and a door that sticks can end up forced. At each turnover, check every door for paint worn through at the edges, rubbing marks on the jamb and stops, and chips on the floor below the hinge side. Paint chips on the threshold are worth a closer look. Fixing the swing and cleaning the floor beneath it is cheaper during a vacancy than after a tenant complaint.
Door work in a rental can fit inside a wider plan; see rental property lead hazard control. To find out which doors and other surfaces are hazards now, start with lead risk assessment. Other services appear on the Irving Lead Paint Removal home page.
Tell us how many doors are involved, whether they are interior or exterior, what condition they are in and whether you want to keep them, plus the address and the year the building went up. We'll get back to you soon with an estimate or any questions we have. Estimates are free and there's no obligation.
Call (972) 793-8562