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Rocket City Remediation LLC
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Serving Decatur, AL and surrounding areas

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**MAKING YOUR HOME SAFE**\nWe're at your side providing expert guidance. \nMold causes a wide variety of health issues, and may be hiding inside walls, on cloth, or even within mattresses. It's important to have your home inspected for dangerous mold and have it removed as quickly as possible. When you need help making your home safe we are there to provide services for mold remediation, mold removal, AND disinfectant fogging. We will come in and find the mold living in your crawlspace. Once identified we clean the mold from any areas contaminated. Then we spray a mold barrier preventing growth in the future. Finally we seal your crawlspace leaving it looking brand new!\nContact us to discuss your Mold problem, we have a solution!\n\nCall Rocket City Remediation LLC today for your free estimate \n256 603 9766 \n4 stage mold remediation\nFull home airspace purification/fumigation\nEncapsulation\nVapor Barriers\nFrench drains\nDehumidifiers\nSump pumps\nBlown insulation\nMolded items and sheetrock removal\nWater diversion\nMold, asbestos, and lead testing available.

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Lead Testing and Removal questions, answered by experts

Costs depend on test type, home size, number of testing locations, and whether follow-up testing is required.

You can expect to pay between $200 and $400 for a lead inspection, where your local lead testing pro will scan surfaces and items with an X-ray fluorescent analyzer. Lead risk assessments are slightly different and run around $800 to $2,000. A pro may find lead during an evaluation, and create a removal strategy.

Lead toxicity comes from inhaling lead or consuming it. Before the 1980s, when the government banned lead from consumer use, it could be found in paint, plumbing, pipes, ceramics, and even gasoline. Lead paint is toxic for the same reason lead itself is toxic, which is why lead poisoning from paint presents the same as lead poisoning from water or food sources, with a slight increase in respiratory symptoms vs. digestive symptoms. Lead paint is most dangerous when it’s old and peeling, cracking, or otherwise disturbed. This increases the concentration in the air and, therefore, in breathable air. 

While not all homes built before 1978 contain lead paint, enough do, so you’ll still want to test to be on the safe side. The federal government banned lead-based paint for homes in 1978, but your state may have banned lead before that time. Around 24% of homes built between 1960 and 1977 contained lead-based paint, while 87% of homes built before 1940 contained lead-based paint.

Several different measurements may be used to determine the amount of lead in water. The most common unit of measurement is micrograms per liter (µg/L), which is the same as parts per billion. Another measurement is milligrams per liter (mg/L), which is the same as parts per million.

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