HOME PROS EPA LEAD SAFE

CERTIFIED PAINTING COMPANY

Any home built prior to 1978 could have lead paint.  For the safety of your family it is highly recommended that you hire an EPA Lead Safe Certified Firm like Home Pros Painting And Home Repairs.  A certified firm has been trained in the proper work place practices to ensure that your project is completed following established EPA guidelines.

The technical government name for this kind of work is EPA's Renovation, Repair and Painting Final Rule (40 CFR 745) or RRP for short. Under it any one completing proper training is allowed to do lead safe renovation, repair, and painting work in pre-1978 housing where work will disturb lead-based paint.

In order to adhere to regulations we have to take additional steps that require more expenditures on our part as well as slowing down the standard practices of painting a house.  In other words in order to comply it cost more money and the work will take longer. This is small price to pay though in order to keep everyone including our workers safe.

Our initial goal on any home built prior to 1978 is to try and figure out if the home has lead-based paint.  The easiest way to do this is to use EPA approved test kits which provide results immediately.  The secondary goal is to figure out if the amount of paint being disturbed meets the the threshold requiring lead safe practices.    So just because your home was built prior to 1978 does not mean that we have to use lead safe practices.  It all depends on the test results and the amount being disturbed.