The latest de-leading update

What a mess! So upon arriving in the driveway on Sunday morning after a pleasant week of denial and relaxation, I immediately noticed that the living room blinds were conspicuously missing. Now mind you when we left the place on the 4th, the rooms were cleared, but the blinds were still up. I was not impressed. Given the fact that we coordinated the de-leading to occur while we were already away for vacation, we saved the landlord the cost of hotel lodging and such. As such, I was hoping that he would go out of his way to make sure that we were not inconvenienced when we got back (other than of course moving all of the things back to their original homes). I was SORELY MISTAKEN!!! There were chunks taken out of the walls near where the window trim was removed (some what understandably), but also in the archway leading to the dining room (which was NO WHERE NEAR the wood trim in question)??? We have huge patches of white trim paint on our painstakingly painted walls in both the living room, and even worse so in Noah's room. That on top of the fact that with the replaced window trim, our blinds no longer fit in the windows. Oh, and I haven't even mentioned all of the white trim paint drips all over the hardwood floors and the adjacent windows...a semi-civilized group of chimpanzees could have probably done a better job. My favorite part however is their idea of encapsulating the one outward facing corner that contained lead paint in the bathroom. Instead of removing the drywall or using some professional substance to ensure that a teething child (mind you that would have to be 4 feet high to reach above the tile and chair rail) wouldn't get down to the lead paint level, they decided it would be best to nail 1x4 pine board to the wall on each side of the corner...how freaking ghetto fabulous could it be???? And they left it unpainted as a flaming effigy of their incompetence! I am pissed...can you tell?

In sum, new blinds have been ordered, spackling compound has been purchased, Mr. Clean Magic Erasers are primed to attack the spattered paint, and a fresh gallon of paint has been bought for Noah's room (because it was the only color we didn't have any leftovers of). And the landlord is getting next month's rent check docked by over $300! Too bad he doesn't pay for labor as well. Of course we could have had "his people" come in and take care of everything, but we would have been at the project for weeks if not months of disrupted schedules and being at home watching some more of his incompetent cronies try and repair the place. Instead, we will end up taking take time out of our chaotic lives to get it all done, but at least it will be done correctly.

I'll post absurd pictures of the de-leading aftermath if I can find the time in between spackling!

UPDATE: So, as you can see, I managed to get some before pictures up of the de-leading damage. On Sat. 7/19, I spent Noah's nap time spackling the holes and touching up the paint. The only room that has work left is Noah's, which needs to be repainted, but that will have to be saved for a day when daddy is home to help out.

This is the side of one of the windows in the living room. This is what was left. What you can't really see in the picture is that all of the extraneous white beyond the window trim is their attempt at spackling...it is so sunk in that it took me 3 more coats of spackling and some sanding to get it level again!

This is in Noah's room....this, as far as I can tell is window trim paint a good 18 inches out from the window trim...why??? we don't know.

This is the ghetto fabulous idea of encapsulating the lead in the bathroom...are we kidding??? This is now painted white which helps it blend in a bit, but it is still such an eyesore.