"Remodeling Can Be a Single Lifetime Purchase, Educate Yourself."

The Education Starts Here
Lifetime Remodeling Systems is committed to educating our potential customer's about the products, installation techniques and employees credentials that insure you will receive a quality remodeling job.

We encourage you to use these contractor comparison sheets as a way to differentiate a good contractor from a bad one while receiving bids. Remodeling your home can be a daunting task, make sure your contractor is working with your interest in mind, not their own.

PDF Contractor Comparison Downloads

Hardi/Cedar Contractor Comparison
Replacement Window Contractor Comparison
Vinyl Contractor Comparison

Lead Certified Renovator
As of April of 2010 all contractors who work on homes built before 1978 that have lead based paint are required to be a Lead-Certified Renovator by federal law. We are a certified RRP contractor (Renovation, Repair & Painting) allowing us to legally work on homes built before 1978 that have lead based paint. We have four certified renovators on staff and take the lead based paint issue very seriously. We use the latest testing, masking and cleanup procedures to insure that we do not spread lead dust or contaminate your home with this deadly toxin. Below you'll find some resources regarding lead based paint and the hazards that it poses especially to children ages 0-6.

Dust:The Biggest Lead Problem

The EPA maximum allowable lead level for floor dust is 39 micrograms per square foot (39 ug/ft2). If a floor test shows the level to be 40 micrograms per square foot it is considered a hazard level.

Let's explore how quickly we can reach hazard levels.

Say there is a door that contains only 1.o mg/cm2 (1 milligram per square centimeter) of lead in your paint. If you sand 1 square foot of this door you will create 929,000 micrograms of lead dust. Since 40 micrograms is the cutoff for contamination this is 928,961 micrograms above the accepted levels or "Hazard Level" of 40 micrograms allowed by federal law. The worst part is that most lead based paint has 10-30 mg per square centimeter, not 1 as used in the example above. If the same door had 10 mg per square centimeter of lead in the paint it would create 9 million micrograms of lead dust! This dust will poison you or your children and must be considered a toxic hazard, period.

Here are some resources to further educate you on the hazards of lead based paint.

Tamara Rubin: Lead advocate in Portland, OR who's children were poisoned by an uneducated painting contractor who burned off lead based paint while her children were watching
Understanding Lead Levels: A great document by Patrick Lehne the foremost lead renovation & testing expert in Portland (He trained all of our renovators)
Lead Awareness: An entire document written by Patrick Lehne on lead safe work practices and how to protect your family
Renovate Right Brochure: This is the educational brochure from the EPA that every contractor is required to give a homeowner by law if their home has lead based paint.

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