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LEAD PIPES AND LEAD PAINT

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Lead Paint New LEAD LAWS enacted on April 2nd, 2010 All building contractors performing renovation, repair and painting projects that disturb lead-based paint in homes built before 1978 must now be EPA certified and must follow specific work practices to prevent lead contamination throughout your home. Before you hire any building contractor that will be distrurbing suspect lead paint, please have your home professionnally tested for lead paint. If your home  does have positive results of lead paint, your renovation contractor must be LEAD-SAFE Certified before touching anything in those areas that tested Positive. Simply look for the LEAD-SAFE CERTIFIED logo before you hire any renovation contractor ... LEAD - WHAT IS IT Lead has been mined, smelted, and compounded for thousands of years. Lead is a neurotoxin metallic element that was historically used in paints, gasoline and plumbing materials for many years. Lead was easy to work with for a variety of ...
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My Active Web Pages

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 Over the years that I've been in business, I have joined many social networking sites and designed many blogs for homeowners. Please check out these websites and let me know if you have any questions... ACTIVERAIN ACTIVERAIN BLOG BLOGGER DIY CHATROOM EREALESTATESOCIAL FACEBOOK Personal FACEBOOK Massachusetts Home Inspections FACEBOOK Massachusetts Infrared (Thermal) Imaging FACEBOOK Massachusetts Home Inspector HOME ENERGY PROS LINKED IN MERCHANT CIRCLE MYSPACE PLAXO THUMBTACK TRULIA TWITTER WORDPRESS WORDPRESS BLOG ZILLOW
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radiant heating, radiant piping

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radiant heating, radiant piping : "If you plan on renovating or remodeling on top of or in proximity of a radiant heating system, I highly recommend having your radiant piping completely examined and have all the buried pipes clearly marked out before you undertake any construction work. Without knowing where those radiant pipes are located, construction around a radiant area could become very expensive if one of those pipes all of the sudden becomes punctured. I’ve had many radiant heating inspections where I’ve detected irregular patterns in the embedded radiant lines with irregular spacing between the pipes themselves (See image below). These particular heating pipes were not properly secured in place while the initial contractors were pouring mortar over them. This caused them to be pushed out of position, permanently causing an oblique installation. It’s always nice to know exactly where those radiant pipes are laid out and if they are all spaced out in a perfectly straight s...
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Infrared (Thermal) Imaging Detects Missing/Defective Insulation

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It's that time of the year again. It's getting colder outside and Infrared imaging can now detect those insulation defects that the summer months didn't allow for a Delta T (difference in temperature). Most homeowners do not realize that a difference in temperature (cold on the exterior and warm on the interior or vise-versa in the Summer months with air conditioning) must be established in order for an IR camera to detect faults in their homes. It's now getting to the point where exterior temperatures are lowering and the heat is being turned up. That gives me the perfect setting to detect those insulation voids in your walls and ceilings. Check out the IR images I have captured in the past... This ceiling appears to be fine, but infrared detects missing insulation This wall appears fine, but my infrared camera detects settled insulation Thermal imaging detects cold air infiltrating the most outer portion of this wall Visually... you see an open window, but...
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