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For over forty years, King Consultants has been serving our clients environmental needs and offering a broad range of services. With staff that specializes in Asbestos, Mold and Water Damage, Lead, ESA inspections, Civil and Blast Engineering, Indoor Air Quality, and Hazardous Material Management, among numerous other environmental hazards, King Consultants is equipped to respond and handle any environmental, engineering, institutional, industrial, or commercially related needs.

For over forty years, King Consultants has been serving our clients environmental needs and offering a broad range of services. With staff that specializes in Asbestos, Mold and Water Damage, Lead, ESA inspections, Civil and Blast Engineering, Indoor Air Quality, and Hazardous Material Management, among numerous other environmental hazards, King Consultants is equipped to respond and handle any environmental, engineering, institutional, industrial, or commercially related needs.



Lead Testing and Removal questions, answered by experts

Determining if your water main contains lead involves a few steps. First, check the age of your property, as homes built before the 1980s might have lead pipes. Contact your water utility company for information on your service line material. Then, you can hire a professional plumber to conduct an inspection or use a lead testing kit to analyze water from the main line.

Costs depend on the number of samples, testing method, lab fees, and whether on-site inspections are required.

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.

You can paint over lead paint, or “encapsulate” it with a special paint that includes an ingredient called an encapsulant. The EPA approves encapsulation as a lead paint removal method as long as the paint remains undisturbed. Standard types of paint without an “encapsulant” from the big box stores or hardware stores do not meet EPA standards for remediation of lead-based paint.

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. 

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