Here, readers learn how to inspect for environmental hazards, work with professionals to avoid risks, and clean up radon, lead, asbestos, and many other substances. This guide offers practical, step-by-step advice that can help readers avoid related medical and financial trouble. Includes illustrations, checklists, reviews of testing kits and clean-up tools, and much more.
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When it comes to environmental hazards, what you don't know can and will hurt you! The Healthy Home Kit provides expert knowledge to identify and solve such problems as radon, lead, asbestos and water contaminants. Each of the 12 chapters on specific threats opens with a quick reference summary chart and includes a comprehensive checklist to help you recognize problems. Amply illustrated with charts, drawings and photographs, this is the most complete book on the subject of home environmental safety. Included is advice on how to choose a radon detection kit, precautions if there is lead in or around the home, when to leave asbestos insulation untouched, tips for solving mold and moisture problems, recognizing furnace problems, eleven hints to reduce exposure to electromagnetic fields, and how to select qualified contractors to clean up when you can do it yourself. -- Midwest Book Review
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When a bank or mortgage company loans money for any purpose, it must consider the risks of making the loan. Read the first page Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Questions To Ask Response What Does, United States, Environmental Risk Screener, Field Observation, Test Version, Assessment Results, New Haven, New York, Better Business Bureau, Chamber of Commerce, Contaminant Health Effect, Ecological Services, National Association of Environmental Risk Auditors, Sources Sources, Fail Fail, Possible Remedy Phase, Whitney Ave, Flood Plains, National Priority List, Testing Hire, Tyler Miller, Acceptable Acceptable Requires, Bonneville Power Administration, Certified Environmental Risk Auditor, Electric Power Research Institute New!
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