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Villa Builders worked with us every step of the way to ensure we had a viable plan to upgrade our master bedroom suite. They were attentive to details and produced a very high quality end product-it's just beautiful!

-Janice & Raymond, Annapolis

Renovate Right

Renovating, Repairing, or Painting? Is your home, your building, or the child care facility or school your children attend, being renovated, repaired, or painted? Was your home, your building, or the child care facility or school your children under the age 6 attend, built before 1978?

If the answer to these questions is YES, there are a few important things you need to know about lead-based paint. This pamphlet provides basic facts about lead and information about lead safety when work is being done in your home, your building, or the childcare facility or school your children attend.

1. It's the Law! Federal law requires that individuals receive certain information before renovating six square feet or more of painted surfaces in a room for interior projects or more than twenty square feet of painted surfaces for exterior projects in housing, child care facilities and schools built before 1978.

Homeowners and tenants: Renovators
must give you this pamphlet before starting
work.

The EPA issued a rule, effective April 22, 2010, requiring the use of lead-safe practices and other actions aimed at preventing lead poisoning. Under the rule, beginning in April 2010, contractors performing renovation, repair and painting projects (RRP) that disturb lead-based paint in homes, child care facilities, and schools before 1978 must be certified and must follow specific work practices to prevent lead contamination. For more information visit http://www.epa.gov/lead/pubs/renovation.htm#requirements.

"RRP Rule assumes that any house built before 1978 contains lead-based paint, unless the house has been tested for lead-based paint and the results indicate that the house and/or impacted component does not contain lead-based paint." (Certified Renovator Initial Course Manual)

If your home was built before 1978 and you have questions about the new requirements, please give us a call at (410)349-3282 or send an email to This e-mail address is being protected from spam bots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it .