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Thread: New Laws troubling guys like me, in Calgary, AB.

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    Default New Laws troubling guys like me, in Calgary, AB.

    The province of alberta has recently passed a law saying that basically, any kind of paint, mixed paint, paint additives, primers, sealers, clear coats, adhesives and materials used in a body shop, can only be purchased by a Liscensed Body Shop, and/or a Ticketed Journeyman Bodyman/Painter.

    Now, I have my garage setup with furnace filters fans, and some smaller more fine filters to capture the paint that may escape, and do my operations really nice and cleanly out of my garage.

    Now I'm not allowed to buy paint do this anymore....Really saddens me. I don't know what to do now, I have a lineup of jobs to do and have already taken payments to purchase materials, have them prepped ready for paint, but I can't buy any paint.

    However they will sell it all in Aerosal Cans........

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    Can you purchase from a online vender and have it shipped in to you. I am sorry to hear your problem......big Biz is stepping on the little guy more and more every day.


    Brian

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    I just went and bought paint and primers at Sams on Manchester road just a few days ago, and I ordered POR15 from a place in Red Deer last week! When did this happen? I don't have a licence either.

    Sean

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    Can you purchase from a online vender and have it shipped in to you. I am sorry to hear your problem......big Biz is stepping on the little guy more and more every day.
    Big Biz? How about Big Gov.

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    Default Easy to buy online...

    Or find a bodyshop that will sell you the paint...

    That would be the only province that did...Are you sure about that?
    My 2 cents worth...
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    Quote Originally Posted by Brian Felts
    Can you purchase from a online vender and have it shipped in to you. I am sorry to hear your problem......big Biz is stepping on the little guy more and more every day.


    Brian
    Its not big business. Their government is the culprit.Mike

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    If that's true we really are moving backwards here, you can't even get someone to flip a burger let alone work in any of the professions.

    Sean

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    That's nasty. Pass it along to Sema as they like to fight stuff like that.

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    Quote Originally Posted by evolize
    The province of alberta has recently passed a law saying that basically, any kind of paint, mixed paint, paint additives, primers, sealers, clear coats, adhesives and materials used in a body shop, can only be purchased by a Liscensed Body Shop, and/or a Ticketed Journeyman Bodyman/Painter.

    Now, I have my garage setup with furnace filters fans, and some smaller more fine filters to capture the paint that may escape, and do my operations really nice and cleanly out of my garage.

    Now I'm not allowed to buy paint do this anymore....Really saddens me. I don't know what to do now, I have a lineup of jobs to do and have already taken payments to purchase materials, have them prepped ready for paint, but I can't buy any paint.

    However they will sell it all in Aerosal Cans........
    Remember as your spraying your paint that crime doesnt pay Mike

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    I can't find any info to that new law on line anywhere. I'd like to read what it has to say. I can't imagine needing to regulate anything as far as the hobbiest is concerned and what has been done federally in the US is really quite logical and hobbiest friendly. And they are going to regulate the adhesives....what the hell is that for. Alberta (and Saskatchewan where I live)are some the biggest air polluters in the world. Regulating the automotive hobbiest is like picking off one germ in the middle of a plague. Your legislaters have their head up their butts.

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    I think this "law" has been in effect for a while now but it's not really inforced. Even if you read the labels they say that the product is for professional use only.

    I talked to two paint suppliers here in town(Calgary) today and they know nothing about it other than they are not supposed to have been selling to us hobbiests as they have been anyways.

    I don't think much will change until they do away with the current high VOC paints and replace them with the water colors......

    Hey Sweetgrass isn't too far if you need any kind of paint from the good ole USA anyways.

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    Which shops were you purchasing supplies from? I always went to CMAX in the northeast off Barlow because they were cheap, and now they won't even sell me clearcoat.

    Now I'm stuck going to the idiots at calgary body shop supplies that put my money into their pocket when they sell me supplies

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    Please check your PMs.

    Greg

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    Quote Originally Posted by StingRay
    I can't find any info to that new law on line anywhere. I'd like to read what it has to say. I can't imagine needing to regulate anything as far as the hobbiest is concerned and what has been done federally in the US is really quite logical and hobbiest friendly. And they are going to regulate the adhesives....what the hell is that for. Alberta (and Saskatchewan where I live)are some the biggest air polluters in the world. Regulating the automotive hobbiest is like picking off one germ in the middle of a plague. Your legislaters have their head up their butts.
    Yes, isn't that incredible. The tar sands is probably the biggest polluters in the country at the moment and they're going to worry about a few handfuls of hobbiests.
    I think I'm going to set up a body shop supply store in Field. When life gives you a lemon, add vodka.
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    Default As If!!!

    A) I don't believe that for a second! I'm in SK too and my jobber - who deals in AB too - never mentioned it.

    B) If it were ever to become the case, I would just use my my business name to register as a shop with the Gov't - they can't be too strigent - I'm sure body shops will always be the easiest businesses to open!

    Although untrue (I'll bet) it's a good reminder that we all should be as careful as we can when using and disposing of paints, solvents and hazardous materials. I know almost every shop (mostly smaller) still "dump" all waste and solvents inappropriatly. I'm sure most backyard guys do the same. When I was a kid it was my job to empty the 45gal waste container (paint, thinner, reducer, etc. ) out behind the shop - it ran into the Fraser River. I'm still sick over it, but I know Akzo Nobel's plant in SK does much the same thing today (into the North SK River).
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