Healthy Homes

Clearstory

This Old House

History, Home & Garden, Leisure

4.9 • 726 Ratings

🗓️ 17 June 2021

⏱️ 36 minutes

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As building technologies have improved and new building materials have found their way into construction sites, our homes have certainly become healthier than before... right? Host Kevin O'Connor speaks with professors Jonsara Ruth and Alison Mears, co-founders of the Healthy Materials Lab, a design research lab at Parsons School of Design, about the history of toxic building materials, what we use today that could be harmful to our health, and how we can create healthier built environments. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:27.9	slash UK slash AI for people. Just how unhealthy is your home? That's a good question. You stop that
0:35.9	John, Sarah. That's a good one. Well, it depends when your home was built and where it was built and how it was built.
0:43.9	So that's a complicated answer.
0:46.2	I have an old home built in the industrial Northeast, and it was built fairly well.
0:52.9	In what year was it built?
0:55.1	1957.
0:56.9	1957. So you're right on the cusp.
0:59.4	Yeah, you've got some...
1:00.1	Cusp of what? Of good, of bad, of deadly, of safe?
1:03.6	You've got some legacy camp and calls in there, right?
1:06.7	Well, you've probably gotten rid of them because you know a lot about this, but you've
1:10.1	probably had some asbestos.
1:11.7	And you may still have some lead paint floating around on your walls in there.
1:16.5	You've probably got rid of your lead pipes, the water pipes that were coming into your house.
1:21.3	You may still have lead, maybe arsenic in the soil around your house, left over from kind of
1:27.2	agricultural practices, insecticide and stuff.
1:29.6	And if your houses are painted wooden house,
1:32.0	then you might have lead around the house.
1:34.6	And that's just the tip of the iceberg.
1:42.9	From this old house, this is Clear Story, your home in a new light.
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