Why do you see a blog posting dealing with testing for lead in paint on a web site dedicated to water quality and water quality? Simple: The folks responsible for this site care about the health and safety of families and want them to live lead-free lives whenever possible.

Why should a family or person have to wonder whether or not the paint covering their furniture, window sills, radiators, walls, baseboards, etc. contains harmful lead when a simple, easy-to-use test kit for lead in paint like the LEADQuick Paint Home Test Kit contains 25 tests and each test takes only minutes to perform.

Using visual detection method which makes use of a new & improved red-green color development technology, LEADQuick Paint Home Test Kit detects the presence of lead on surfaces including wood, plaster, drywall, and metal.

The LEADQuick Paint Home Test Kit includes:

• 10 – Testing Tubes: Small polystyrene test tubes
• 1 – eXact® Reagent Acid-1 in a dropper bottle
• 1 – eXact® Reagent PB-2 in a dropper bottle
• 1 – eXact® Strip PB-3P bottle of 50 strips
• 1 – eXact® Strip PB-4 bottle of 25 strips
• 1 – Foam Test Tube Holder
• 1 – Instruction Manual
• 1 – Lead Paint Drywall ‘Standard’

While newer homes must pass certification tests prior to sale and may not contain lead-based paints, the law does not always require older homes that have passed down from family member to family member an/or as rental properties that have not changed owners in many years to comply with newer lead regulations.

Testing for Lead in Water

Given all the publicity that lead in water contamination has received in recent years, it should come as no surprise that people have interest in testing their drinking water for lead.

Remember: At one point copper piping joined by solder containing lead went into pretty much every home and office.

Got interest in testing for other metals in your drinking water? No problem. The following test kits will make that task a breeze!

Back in the day a lot of paint manufacturers pinched pennies by using ‘excessive’ quantities of lead in their paints. While this practice saved both the manufacturers and end users countless millions over the years, doctors and scientists have now linked exposure to lead-based paint products to elevated concentrations of lead in the blood of humans.

How did that much lead get into their bloodstream?

Example 1: Scientists and healthcare professionals speculate that some test subjects got their exposure to lead paint as children by playing with and/or eating paint chips found on the floor or on radiators and window sills.

Example 2: Scientists and healthcare professionals also speculate that others got their exposure to lead paint by working with lead-based paint products as adults.

In either case, ill effects of elevated lead levels manifested themselves in a number of test subjects so if you suspect lead paint on the walls and radiators of an old house, take a look at the Lead in Paint test.

It’s a fast, simple, and easy test which can help keep your friends and family safe from the potentially lethal effects of lead poisoning.

UPDATE: A new, accurate and easy-to-use at-home lead in paint test kit hit the market at the end of 2008. You can find information about the LeadQUICK™ in Paint Home Visual Test Kit on this page.