Assume that you are painting your house, that you live in, and that will involve taking down all the mezuzot. Assume the painting will take 2 weeks, to paint all the rooms. Assume that painting any one room (and doorway) will take 2 days (for prep and priming and then paining two coats), so any one room/doorway will have no mezuza for at least one overnight and perhaps as much as 2-3 days. How long may a house or room be without a mezuza and you still be allowed to live in it? It is necessary to put up a mezuzza as soon as each coat of plaster or paint is dry, or can replacing the mezuzot be done when all the painting is completed?
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1I'm confused why they'd be taken down at all? – Double AA Mar 08 '20 at 16:27
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@DoubleAA https://www.yeshiva.co/ask/2398 – Loewian Mar 08 '20 at 16:43
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slightly related: https://judaism.stackexchange.com/questions/65190/what-if-a-mezuzah-is-mistakenly-removed – Loewian Mar 08 '20 at 16:44
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@loewian how would they get damaged? Do discolored cases warrant taking down the scrolls?? – Double AA Mar 08 '20 at 16:55
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What does one room have to do with another? In other words, why would the front door or kitchen door not have a mezuza when painting a bedroom? – Mordechai Mar 08 '20 at 22:02
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@Mordechai It depends on the approach of the painter. If the painter does all the surface prep and priming before painting, then the whole house would be without a mezuza for 2 weeks. If the painter goes room by room, then any given room might be without a mezuza for 2 days. – Yehuda W Mar 09 '20 at 20:48