Lead paint testing and detection services in Georgia and South Carolina. Learn how professional lead inspections safeguard your property and protect your family’s health.
A homeowner in Aiken spent a weekend sanding old paint off the exterior trim of her 1962 house before repainting it herself. She’d heard about lead paint rules for contractors and figured, since she was doing the work herself, none of it applied to her. She wasn’t entirely wrong about the rule. She was wrong […]
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Augusta has a lot of old homes. The Hill, Summerville, Harrisburg, Laney-Walker, and Bethlehem neighborhoods all have significant concentrations of pre-1940 housing stock, and much of the city’s residential fabric was built between the 1940s and the 1970s. That history has cultural and architectural value. It also means that a substantial portion of Augusta homes
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Buying or selling a pre-1978 home in Georgia? Lead paint disclosure is required, but disclosure is not the same as testing. Here’s what Augusta buyers and sellers should know.
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Here’s an example scenario: a real estate investor in Augusta buys a 1965 duplex and wants it certified lead-free before marketing it as family-friendly rental housing. He orders what he thinks is a thorough lead inspection from a general home inspector, who uses lead test swab chemistry on suspect surfaces. The swabs come back negative.
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Here’s an example scenario: a pediatrician in Richmond County orders blood lead testing for a two-year-old whose parents had done everything right. Their older home had been professionally deleaded before they moved in. Every interior surface was covered with encapsulated or replaced paint. They tested the water. They bought a HEPA vacuum. The test result
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Here’s an example scenario: a landlord in Augusta owns three rental houses, all built in the early 1960s. He’s rented them for years without mentioning lead paint to any tenant. He doesn’t think much of it because he’s never tested and doesn’t know for sure whether lead paint is present. Then a tenant’s child is
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Here’s an example scenario: a remodeling contractor in Augusta replaces windows in a 1971 colonial. He removes the old window frames with a reciprocating saw, sands the casings, and cleans up with a shop vac. Standard procedure for any window replacement. Except the paint on those casings tested positive for lead at 1.8 mg/cm2, well
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Here’s an example scenario: a two-year-old in an Augusta neighborhood spends most of her day on the floor, doing what two-year-olds do: crawling, putting her hands in her mouth, chewing on window sills. The house was built in the 1960s. The paint around the windows has been chipping for years, creating a fine dust that
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Here’s an example scenario: a couple in Augusta closes on a 1965 ranch home. Six months later, their toddler’s routine blood test comes back with elevated lead levels. The pediatrician asks about paint condition in the home. The parents notice peeling paint around window sills in the child’s bedroom. They go back through their closing
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If your home was built before 1978 and you are planning a renovation, lead paint is a legal and health consideration you cannot skip. The federal government banned lead-based paint for residential use in 1978, but an estimated 29 million U.S. housing units still contain it. In Augusta and the surrounding CSRA, where a large
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