Just in case you haven't been paying attention, the EPA has decided to impart yet more unique twists in the never-ending roller coaster which is the RRP Lead Paint Rule. They are now going to wait until after October to begin enforcing the INSPECTION of the following of the rules. That's right...do things the way it is supposed to be done and we will come dig for mistakes after we can get some funding to do so! The Opt-out portion has been eliminated, so all homes built before 1978 must be tested for lead and handled significantly different than those that were built after 1978. So if your home is built before 1978, like the 90% + people living in the U.S., then let the overpriced testing begin. If there is no lead found, which it will likely NOT be found in the 75% of the homes that fall in the 1960-1978 range built during the hay day years of baby boomers having 2.5 kids in the suburbs of America. If your house was built between 1959 or earlier, you are most likely going to have at least 1 layer of lead based paint somewhere on the exterior of your home. So if there are no children under the age of 6 or pregnant women living in the home, you will pay dearly for the correction that remodeling service will have to do as standard operating procedure. So, don't worry about the lead paint chips that you may have eaten as a very small child in the 60's & 70's or playing with lead figurines or even that pencil lead in your eye. The government, most notably the EPA will be the watchdog to keep you safe in your twilight years. If they could only get Kevin Costner to build an inverntion that could solve this problem too. Waterworld, here we come.
