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@learning1 Hi, licensed lead inspector in the northeast here. If you really want to know where any lead paint is have a lead inspector come out with an XRF. It will shoot through all the paint layers and tell you the lead content. Ideally from there making sure the components that you know...

@discipul4yahwey Nearly everything you interact with has some degree of heavy metals. They are naturally occurring and then through human actions we've made their prevalence in the food pyramid worse. THAT SAID most people and children are poisoned either through lead paint in their homes or...

@jacobla Imo it's always worth having someone come out with an XRF to test the paint at your home. Knowledge us power and there is no way to know without testing. An anecdote: my house was built in 1790. A couple months after we moved in I brought the XRF home and tested our house. There is...

@way195 So most kids don't actually eat lead chips, thats now considered an outdated way of thinking. They ingest lead dust through normal hand to mouth behavior. If your lead paint is in good condition it is much less of a risk. If it's in poor condition, chipping, flaking, a door is rubbing...

@rascoeb Lead paint!!!!! And people doing their own renovations in old houses!! Also if you do any hobby using lead. But if you do those hobbies you probably know and are hopefully using good housekeeping practices

@torn12 Good God. As someone who works in the lead testing industry please avoid LSM at all costs. While not always wrong she is a known fear monger who ultimately does more harm than good

@cbmiller What is this man bringing to this relationship because it sure doesn't sound like loyalty