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Originally Posted by Charles
You couldn't have picked a better business to get out of.
Chas
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Ah... you have had some first hand experience I take it. It was much better when it was regulated smartly but now, it's just become so burdensome and costly to manage it's hard to turn a profit. The majority of the properties I managed activities on were old residential. If it were not for the federal and state funding most of those folks could never afford to address the problem.
Sad really because the majority of the problem areas can be controlled by containment/ encapsulation with abatement reserved as a last resort. More and more, complete abatement procedures were specified and the cost to all skyrocketed.
I was told by a MN department head (who really knows his shit) that the rules regarding Lead and removal were based on the Asbestos rules because they had nothing to go from originally. Both are toxic but they have nothing to do with one another. Asbestos being an airborn issue which is not the case with Lead. Until of course you start tearing into shit and making it airborn for a period of time
Like a lot of things govnment, the over regulation of program is killing it along with the entire home remodel industry.
I feel sorry for folks that just want to have a new door installed in their home only to find out they opened a stinky can of worms and that $600 door just turned into a $20,000 lead issue.