Lead paint is believed to be a highly toxic substance that has the ability to cause serious illness to children and adults alike. Earlier people didn’t know much about the hazardous effects of lead which used to even cause deaths of many youngsters. But now, most of the people are aware about its ill effects and thus it’s not much in use these days. It was found that children had elevated blood levels which proved for the presence of lead paint in children. If the house has lead paint then it is important to remove the children from the house and taken to a safe place where they can be away from the effects of the lead paint. There are risk assessors or commonly known as the lead inspectors who can help you determine if your house is safe and things that you would be required to do in case it is not safe.

Lead based paint is usually commonly applied on the doors, wood work done in the house, windows, etc. It is really toxic for the little babies crawling on the floor who can consume lead through their hands. Water pipes are also one way through which lead can be ingested into one’s body. Lead can affect one’s brain, nervous system, kidneys and the RBC’s. However, the extent to which a person is affected by the lead depends on the content of lead to which the person was exposed to. Thus, it becomes very important to apply lead encapsulation in the houses where lead paints are detected to save many lives.

Lead encapsulation enables to provide a coating of a material which would greatly reduce the harmful effects of the lead paint and prevent it from ingestion by the kids or adults in the house. Child Guard is a perfect coating for lead based paints, it is a water based solution blended with copolymer to form a barrier between the environment and the lead paint, the barrier is both flexible as well as durable. Before you actually begin to apply child guard, you should make sure that you have a well adhered and stable paint system. To find this out, you can do an adhesion tape test over the area which you intend to coat with the child guard. You can do this test for other different areas and then apply a pressure tape to find out the effect of the child guard on these areas.

Clean your existing paint system completely, make it dry and dull and only then apply the child guard. You can easily use a roller or a brush to apply the child guard. Usually, you can do away with two applications of the child guard for a perfect lead encapsulation. One thing that you should make sure before applying child guard is that the temperature of the atmosphere and the surface temperature should be 45°F and should not be freezing.

It is very important to save your family from the harmful effects of lead, thus lead encapsulation is the best method to save yourself.