{"id":912,"date":"2016-11-08T15:23:21","date_gmt":"2016-11-08T19:23:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/athens.certapro.com\/epa-lead-certified\/"},"modified":"2021-06-30T11:47:56","modified_gmt":"2021-06-30T15:47:56","slug":"epa-epd-lead-certified","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/certapro.com\/athens\/residential-painting\/services\/epa-epd-lead-certified\/","title":{"rendered":"EPA &#038; EPD Lead Certified Services"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>Is your contractor EPA &amp; EPD RRP Certified?<\/h2>\n<p>If your home is older than 1978, work with a house painter that is EPA RRP Certified. When you work with <strong>CertaPro Painters<sup>\u00ae,<\/sup><\/strong>\u00a0 we handle your lead-based paint project in a safe manner that complies with regulation from the EPA.<\/p>\n<p>In April 2008 the <strong>Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)<\/strong> released a mandate that has had a significant impact on the remodeling and <a href=\"\/residential-painting\/services\/\">home improvement<\/a> industry. The Lead Renovation, Repair and Painting Rule (RRP) has changed how painting and other renovation contractors approach working on buildings built before 1978, as well as all <a href=\"\/commercial-painting\/segment\/school\/\">schools<\/a>,\u00a0non-profit buildings, government buildings and hospitals.<\/p>\n<h3>Was Your Home Built Before 1978?<\/h3>\n<p>According to the EPA, most buildings built prior to 1978 will likely contain lead-based paint, a heavy mercury-like substance that is a health hazard humans. Fortunately, now that the dangers of latent lead-based paint have become public knowledge, the EPA is actively creating stringent regulations that govern the renovation of older homes containing this substance. These requirements pertain to a number of elements in the work space, including:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Warning signs and work area containment<\/li>\n<li>The restriction or prohibition of certain tools and activities (such as high heat gun, torch and power sanding)<\/li>\n<li>Waste removal<\/li>\n<li>Post-renovation cleaning verification<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Lead-safe work practices require an EPA lead safe contractor, additional labor and materials. Certified contractors remove lead-based paint debris in a way that is <strong>safe to your home and family<\/strong>. Always ask any contractor for their EPA Lead RRP certification number.<\/p>\n<p>Trust your painting project to your local CertaPro Painters who are EPA RRP Certified.<\/p>\n<h3><a href=\"#estimate\">Schedule your free, detailed in-home estimate appointment now<\/a>!<\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Is your contractor EPA &amp; EPD RRP Certified? If your home is older than 1978, work with a house painter that is EPA RRP Certified. When you work with CertaPro Painters\u00ae,\u00a0 we handle your lead-based paint project in a safe manner that complies with regulation from the EPA. In April 2008 the Environmental Protection Agency<a class=\"read-more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/certapro.com\/athens\/residential-painting\/services\/epa-epd-lead-certified\/\">Read the full article <em class=\"fa fa-angle-double-right\" aria-hidden=\"true\"><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":82,"featured_media":0,"parent":946,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"page-dynamic-fields-full-width.php","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,58],"tags":[85],"class_list":["post-912","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry","category-our-services","category-residential-services","tag-epa-lead-certified"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/certapro.com\/athens\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/912","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/certapro.com\/athens\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/certapro.com\/athens\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/certapro.com\/athens\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/82"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/certapro.com\/athens\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=912"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/certapro.com\/athens\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/912\/revisions"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/certapro.com\/athens\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/946"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/certapro.com\/athens\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=912"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/certapro.com\/athens\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=912"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/certapro.com\/athens\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=912"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}