If you want to pass the interior “Lead Paint Clearance Test” you will have to first pass the “Visual Interior Lead Paint Clearance Test. A licensed lead paint assessor will inspect the entire interior of the home prior to performing any lead dust test. The home needs to be clean and free from peeling, loose, blistering, failing, detaching, or chipping paint. Additionally, the home has to be somewhat clean and free from dust, debris, garbage and dirt. The inspector will always look into the window troughs and visually inspect for loose pain, dirt or dust. If the window wells have peeling paint, loose window glazing, dust and debris, the visual inspection fails. The inspector will also look at carpets, wood floors and linoleums. If the floors have dirt, visual dust or paint chips, the visual inspection fails. You have to pay the inspector the “show up fee” and then he leaves. Many inspectors will let you travel ahead of them, permitting one more final cleaning prior to the dust wipe test. Baby wipes work great for the final cleaning. If you clean the window sill or trough and the baby wipe is still dirty, these areas are dirty and you will fail the laboratory dust test. Wood floors may look clean but are not. The biggest mistake people make with cleaning floors is they do not change the mop water. If the mop water is dirty, the floor is also dirty and you will fail. Most inspectors like to keep the dust testing simple and standard. All bedrooms need to have one dust sample taken from the window trough, one dust sample from the window sill and one dust sample taken from the floor. If you have four bedrooms, that would be 12 dust sample tests. Other locations tested may include one floor test in the basement, one floor test at each entrance, one floor test in the hallway and one blank test for quality control and one spike test also for quality control. A four bedroom home with a basement may have 15-19 dust samples taken that would need to be sent to a lead accredited laboratory. If you place new entrance door mats at the base of stairs and at door entrances, many times, the inspector will test these new surfaces. In old homes, basements leak and paint may peel prior to the inspection. You should touch up these areas prior to the inspector’s arrival. Inspectors do not care if the paint color matches. Inspectors only care if the paint is peeling. Prior to disturbing paint on PRE-1978 homes, homeowners or contractors should take the one day EPA class and become a certified. You will also need to pay the EPA a fee to be a certified EPA firm. If you are not certified you need to find somebody that has a certification. The public housing authority will want a copy of the worker licensed or certification. Your lead assessor cannot provide you with this information. Your lead clearance report will also require this information. If you do not provide it to your lead clearance inspector will leave this area blank on the lead clearance report and the public house authority may not accept the clearance report. The inspector will bring several different sized templates for the dust sampling. He will lay down the template and take dust samples with special ghost wipes. The dust samples will be put into a plastic tubes sent to a laboratory for analysis. We recommend you email your inspector so he has your email address for a quicker turn around of the report. For more information how to pass your clearance test got to http://
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