Testing for Lead Paint: It’s the Law!

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Testing for Lead Paint Its the Law!
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In April of 2010 The Environmental Protection
Agency issued new regulations that require any
contractor that disrupts more than 6 square feet
of surface on a home built before 1978 be
licensed and trained to comply with the new lead
paint regulations that minimize dust.
To learn more specifics about these regulations
go to EPA.gov , but in general if your home was
built before 1978, and you are replacing your
windows, the company doing the work should be
either testing each window for lead paint OR be
following the EPA lead safe practices when they
do the work.
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This is really important for a number of reasons.
First if you have young children or grandchildren
visiting in your home, exposure to dust from lead
paint can be very serious for them. Secondly,
real estate disclosures are now asking for the
EPA certification for any contractors that have
worked on your home if it was built before 1978. 
So, if you sell your home, this will become
important. Finally, we even have had customers
neighbors call and check to be sure we are
following EPA guidelines because they want to
make certain they are not being exposed by dust
from the exterior of the home.
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Testing one window here and there in your home is
not sufficient. Each painted surface on each
window needs to be tested. Glass-Rite has an XRF
lead paint tester that we use on all pre 1978
homes. The XRF tester is able to see through
all of the old layers of paint and determine if
there is lead in any of them. We furnish a
written report to the homeowners before doing any
work on the house. Glass-Rite includes the cost
of testing and complying with the EPA regulations
in our prices, so not only do you get the peace
of mind that we wont be creating toxic dust, you
do not have to pay more if we discover lead paint
around your windows.
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In Albuquerque the older the home, the more
likely the chance that we encounter lead paint. 
Although, we have seen homes built in the 70s
with lead paint, and homes that are over 100
years old with no lead paint. The important thing
is to test!!
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For more details
Glass-Rite 808 Gibson SE Albuquerque, NM
87102 Phone [phone] Toll-free
1-800-824-1005 Email us at webmail_at_glass-rite.com
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