Get professional help identifying whether or not lead is present within your property.
When performing renovation or demolition of public buildings and private residences there is a risk that lead-based paint is present. To protect our health, the Environmental Protection Agency provides the Lead Renovation, Repair, and Painting Rule (RRP). This applies to homes, child care facilities, and pre-schools built before the year 1978. Lead inspections and risk assessments are the first step to managing lead hazards.
Our experienced staff will help assess, evaluate, and manage lead-based paint hazards. With our lead testing services, we can help you quickly and accurately identify whether or not lead is present. In most cases, we can deliver these results instantly. If not, you’ll know within 24 hours of the test.
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A technician walks the property and identifies the painted surfaces most likely to contain lead — trim, window sashes, door frames, siding — then tests them. Depending on the situation that can mean an on-site XRF scan, paint chip samples, or dust wipes sent to an accredited lab. You get a written report showing which components tested positive and at what levels, so you know exactly what needs attention before any work starts.
Testing itself isn't mandatory, but the EPA's Renovation, Repair and Painting (RRP) Rule is. If you hire a contractor to disturb paint in a home or child-occupied facility built before 1978, that firm must be lead-safe certified and follow lead-safe work practices — unless testing shows the paint isn't lead-based. Our guide to lead paint testing in pre-1978 DFW homes walks through how that applies here.
Pricing depends on the size of the property and how many surfaces or samples the lab needs to run, but a professional lead paint inspection in the Dallas–Fort Worth area typically falls in the low-to-mid hundreds of dollars for a single-family home. Testing is priced separately from lead paint removal, which is quoted once you know what's there. Because every property is different, the most accurate way to know is a quick on-site assessment — we'll give you a written quote before any work begins.
Most residential lead testing takes an hour or two on site, sometimes less if you only need a few components checked. When samples go to a lab, turnaround is usually a day or two. You'll receive a written report you can hand straight to a contractor, a lender, or a buyer without needing anything further.
If the home was built before 1978, the federal Lead Disclosure Rule requires you to give buyers or tenants the EPA's "Protect Your Family From Lead in Your Home" pamphlet, disclose any known lead-based paint, and share any reports you already have. Sellers also have to allow buyers a 10-day window to test. You aren't required to test or remediate — but many Dallas–Fort Worth sellers do anyway, because a clear report removes a common negotiating point.
Swab kits can hint that lead is present, but they can't tell you how much, which paint layers it's in, or which surfaces are actually a hazard — and they produce both false positives and false negatives. A professional test uses XRF scanning or accredited lab analysis, so you get results a contractor or lender will accept. That matters most in older neighborhoods; see our look at lead paint in Fort Worth's historic homes.
