How To Be Lead-Safe: Testing For Lead
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- čas přidán 24. 02. 2013
- If you're renovating, repairing, or painting a home, disturbing lead-based paint can be a serious health hazard for both children and adults. WxTV will take a look at the EPA and DOE-approved methods to test for lead paint at the job site.
Good Job explaining the options.
Well done video. Keep up the good posts!
Still used in general aviation fuel (single engine prop jobs). Interesting to see what the level of people's blood is near these smaller airports. Used as a motor fuel in N. Korea, Yemen, Iraq, Algeria, and Afgh.
The problem I have with all these tests is that by cutting it, aren't you disturbing the paint and therefore releasing lead dust into the environment? and will the lead dust continue to be released once you're done?
I have red book shelf. My grandfather made some time ago. Easily before 1978. How does one check for lead with red paint? Ideas of removing or refinishing it if it is lead paint?
As of 2024, apparently the 3M 'stick' style tests have been discontinued. I just paid $13 for a different instant test kit containing 2 small test sheets (1/2" x 1/2") and an empty eyedropper. Theoretically, you could cut the rest sheets in half to double your number of tests.
I have an antique 50 yr wicker painted baby bassinette. Any ideas
Good stuff
Very informative video. There are still many products that use lead based paint (LBP). Toys manufactured in other countries that do not have regulations are a great concern. Toys often have brightly colored paints. However, a consumer should be able to simply call a lab to submit samples for analysis or find a lab like ours that have testing kits.
What kind of scrapper was he using for the paint chip sample? Where can i get one?
very helpful video. Only problem I can think of, is there’s some customers out there that might complain or give you a bad review if you cut their home, sometimes even if you ask them first and they say yes they might still complain. Especially if they don’t end up liking your price. So I feel like this is kind of risky for residential
What might be a better option, is finding an area the paint is *already* peeling, and just taking a chip off from that, so that way they can’t say you cut or damaged anything
For something like this and a customer like that, a signed estimate with details on what you'll be doing is probably the way to go.
So the green paint had lead and the red paint didn't?
How do you clean area first? Alcohol swab?
We got a local guy trying to charge me almost a 1000$ to test 4 spots. I asked him if he got an X-ray xpr gun, his respond is send it to the lab. Wtf 1000 for him being in the middle and doing jack. I laughs and hung up
meanwhile i went to a paint job with my dad and he didnt tell me the walls he was sanding with he machine had lead paint until the job was over so i wouldnt "freak out" . i just threw away my clothes after smh so much for ppe. would this type of test work on a clay pot to see if it has lead in the paint or clay
Your dad is a genius.
@@joshuat6124 lmao I don’t even remember writing this comment it must have been the day of I sound so offended 😭 yeah he is he know what not to say and when
@@alidelatierra...to save money at the expense of the health of his offspring and himself? There are sanding attachments for HEPA vacuum cleaners that are safe to sand lead. Otherwise, wet sand.
No gloves needed?
I Have aquestion for whoever knows the best and who can answwere, i bought a huge silver chain , but it might be made in prison in 90's, i know how silver acts itself when it 925 or 999, but this chain gets dark while im wearing it, other similar or identical silver chains get more silvery and more bright, but this one gets darker in spots, what could that mean? i start to think that it might have a lead in it.
KrisRaps that’s normal all silver gets darker with time
Iooked up that X-Ray Fluoresence spectrometer... $12,000. 😅
EnragedSephiroth or 10$ lead test at the store
I'm confused on one point. Are any of these tests better than the other? I'm not so much concerned about the last one since you said we had to be licensed or something to use it. But what about the first two?
The first one it's easy and simple to use .
Depends on application.
Tried it and the wall turned red but not the swab on white painted dry wall is it positive?
Contact the company.
So how would i test something for lead that isn't paint like food or drink especially if its colored red to begin with?
@Sotheysaylooloo Thanks much.
Yo
The answer is gone :(
@@tacticalbacon9877 Yea CZcams must of deleted it because they want to spread lead poisoning? lol I don't remember what test he said, i think you could use the same test. However their are several tests you can just search. Its a shame really they did that, & honestly kind of predatory. Which is why i don't really support them anymore.
THAT COFFEE CUP IS EMPTY
No. It's full of lies.
Does the x-ray fluorescence guy only measure lead content in the top-most layer?
No, it can test through several layers. That's one of the things that makes it better than LeadCheck. Even though LeadCheck does allow for a few layers if you cut correctly, it's just not as efficient or as thorough as the x-ray fluorescence, which reads everything!
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What if you have red paint? You know like on the VIDEO!
Looks like you got alot of substreight
Watch out for knock offs!
If honest, i need this lead tester for my in question huge silver chain., if someone can send me that test i can make a video about my chain :)
if its that easy to test, y do pros charge a couple hundred dollars to test it for you
Jean Robert: "[Wh]y do pros charge a couple hundred dollars to test it for you"? Because they can.
Because lazy uneducated people is how businesses grow dummy.
b/c its business. I can do the house remodel myself for $25K (take way longer and not as nice). $45K on the cheap or $70K for the pro's pro (hands free, stress free).
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Are you lost?
You can detect lead paint just by looking at it: It's usually peeling or very dry looking
#1- I guess you didn't go to school for lead testing other wise you would of known how to remove a paint chip sample with no sub-straight in it.
#2- A XRF Gun to buy costs about 12 to $15,000.00 depending on the gun and buy half life (meaning 9 to 15 months) it will cost you from $1,000 to $3,500 to get a new inside part.
M Proto you definitely didn’t go to school. You spelled ‘substrate’ as ‘sub-straight’ and that is not the only blooper in your sentences here. What an @sshole!
No gloves, no mask, no safety glasses???!?
Never had those growing up...
Steve P
Which caused some children to have lower iq scores than their non-lead-contaminated peers. The particulates in a lead testing house can be harmful to anyone exposed to them.
Just because people do a thing doesn't make it right.
Like sarcasm?
I nominate Helmut Kool for EPA Director!
Wtf lol unless you walk around eating and licking chunks of your wall you should be fine.
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Why go to all this trouble bro. Treat it as lead and just remove the paint , your over thinking it
This kind of thinking is what will lead to Idiocracy becoming reality.
So basically... you totally eff up a wall or sill or any part of the home with paint... but scraping it, or chopping it up, or drawing on it and then scraping it? Wow... homeowners must love you.
Easily filled with spackle or quick-set drywall mud and repainted. Nice try, though.