How To Test For Lead in Your Home

How to use EPA-Approved Test Kits to inspect for Lead-Based Paint in your home
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This video shows how to test for lead-based paint in your home. This is a quick and easy test to find out if you have lead paint in your home. Knowing if your home has lead paint helps you protect your children from lead poisoning.
If you live in a Pre 1978 home and you plan to do any renovating, repairing, or painting, you could be disturbing lead-based paint, and this can pose a serious health hazard for both children and adults.
Lead can be present in your home under layers of new paint. If the paint in your home is in good shape, lead is not usually an issue.
Older homes with deteriorating paint, that is if the paint in peeling, chipping, chalking, cracking, damaged, or damp it can pose a hazard needs immediate attention.
It may also be a hazard when found on surfaces that children can come in contact with, such as :
o Windows and window sills;
o Doors and door frames; and
o Stairs, railings, banisters, and porches.
o Lead is also found in the soil and some plates and imported toys.
Be sure to keep all paint in excellent shape and clean up dust frequently

[@anitarushlow4022]

This is very helpful. Thanks for the info!!

[@jessemartinez3825]

So if it turns red on the card is valid? That its positive or negative on lead?

[@themoldinsider]

that’s is correct. The area on the card is like quality control. It lets you know the swab was good when used. If you swab an area and it turns red, it is positive. It means that lead based paint was detected. However it doesn’t tell you how much lead was detected.