So how are you integrating this into your business?
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I've been reading it. It's only 300 pages. F&*king Feds. 
What I'm curious about is how are companies going to actually incorporate this into their business.
If the house is built after 1978 it's a non-issue. The issue comes down to pre 1978. When you're face with one built prior to 1978 you now have to come up with how you are going to not only do the work, but how are you going to sell the work?
There is a lead test that if it passes without showing any lead makes all the extra time and money to be spent un-necessary.
Are businesses going to sell jobs as normal with a clause that the lead test will determine if additional costs are going to be incured by the customer as a change order to do the work in compliance? Of are businesses just going to roll the extra cost into every job, with every job costing more? And of course we know that there will be plenty of contractors who will just play dumb as long as possible in regard to all of this.
I think the assumption is right now that just any house built prior to 1978 will have contractors simply bidding higher on the jobs and just applying all these new work regulations to the job.
I don't really see it going that way and being so cut and dry.
By the way, like Obama's health care plans, this lead thing has pefect timing. Just what the home improvement industry needed right now.
What I'm curious about is how are companies going to actually incorporate this into their business.
If the house is built after 1978 it's a non-issue. The issue comes down to pre 1978. When you're face with one built prior to 1978 you now have to come up with how you are going to not only do the work, but how are you going to sell the work?
There is a lead test that if it passes without showing any lead makes all the extra time and money to be spent un-necessary.
Are businesses going to sell jobs as normal with a clause that the lead test will determine if additional costs are going to be incured by the customer as a change order to do the work in compliance? Of are businesses just going to roll the extra cost into every job, with every job costing more? And of course we know that there will be plenty of contractors who will just play dumb as long as possible in regard to all of this.
I think the assumption is right now that just any house built prior to 1978 will have contractors simply bidding higher on the jobs and just applying all these new work regulations to the job.
I don't really see it going that way and being so cut and dry.
By the way, like Obama's health care plans, this lead thing has pefect timing. Just what the home improvement industry needed right now.
I've been reading it. It's only 300 pages. F&*king Feds.
What I'm curious about is how are companies going to actually incorporate this into their business.
There is a lead test that if it passes without showing any lead makes all the extra time and money to be spent un-necessary.
I don't really see it going that way and being so cut and dry.
My question would be how do you tell the HO that they need to pay for a test before any bid is considered applicable to total costs.
My thoughts are most HO's will forgo any testing because of the added costs involved and just say to go ahead and do the work.
But where will that leave the contractor as far as liability?
Going to have to read this,as it's news to me,and we do a lot of work on pre 1978 nomes.
Thanks for the post Jon.
You can use the latest Google Earth and use the timeline to see your area years ago, only went back to 1997 for Cullman, Alabama, but many areas go back to 1978. Kind of cool to see the growth!
My area is a fairly new and low population. We mostly do Custom Homes and Light Commercial so I will not get into Abatement. But I could be one of the few Risk Assessors in my area!
My area is a fairly new and low population. We mostly do Custom Homes and Light Commercial so I will not get into Abatement. But I could be one of the few Risk Assessors in my area!
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