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| Unlike Many Home Interior Renovation Companies, Nonn's Is Certified & In Compliance With Lead Safety Laws |
At Nonn's Design Showplace, we want you to Love Your Home, and that means having a safe home. While installing your flooring, cabinetry or countertops, we take our commitment to the safety of your environment very seriously. That's why Nonn's is certified and in full compliance with Environmental Protection Agency's Lead-Based Paint Renovation, Repair and Painting Rule, which is "aimed at protecting against lead-based paint hazards associated with renovation, repair and painting activities." But compliance with this program adds expense to the cost of doing business, and that's why many renovation companies are uncertified and don't adhere to the lead-safe standards. |
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To help our customers understand the safety hazards associated with lead during renovation--and why we believe compliance with lead-safe practices are so important--we provide for you the below excerpts of the EPA's January 2010 Alert: |
"Approximately three-quarters of the homes built before 1978 contain some lead-based paint. It may be on any surface, but is mostly found on exterior-painted surfaces, interior woodwork, doors, and windows. The use of lead-based paint in housing was banned in 1978 by the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission." "Lead is highly toxic metal. It is particularly dangerous to children, whose growing bodies absorb more of the metal and whose brains and nervous systems are more sensitive to its damaging effects. Even low levels of lead in children reduce IQ, cause learning disabilities and behavioral problems, reduce attention span and retard physical development." "Lead poisoning in adults can increase blood pressure, cause irritability, poor muscle coordination, and damage the kidneys, nerves and brain. Fetal development can also be affected. "In general, any activity that disturbs paint in housing and child-occupied facilities built before 1978, including remodeling, repair, maintenance, electrical work, plumbing, painting, carpentry and window replacemnet, is subject to the requirements [of the Lead-Based Paint Renovation, Repair and Painting Rule]."
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