Bests & Worsts Reviews from Amazon

We ordered this after starting demo work, we chose this brand because the reviews seemed good and it arrived faster than the 3M brand. Big mistake. Our house was built in 1970. We were replacing old carpet, and had to take our baseboards which released some paint chips and we decided to stop work until we got lead results back to make sure we weren’t exposing our family to lead paint dust. These tests showed positive lead in our house, in the bedrooms, old and new paint, and in the pantry. My husband, always the skeptic, suggested testing my son’s newly painted room which we used two coats of latex paint. It was shockingly positive. We tested my daughters room which we used one coat of odor blocking Killz on plus a layer of latex paint, and using test it showed positive. After moving our family into my mother’s house, stopping reno work, and stopping moving in, we reached out to local services for help. Our health department gave us a list of certified lead abatement specialists. We called 5 on the list, and all 5 were completely skeptical about us actually having lead paint mainly because the new paint was testing positive for lead. One even mentioned he hated to talk himself out of a job but lead paint was unlikely for a home built in 1970 because the industry knew it was going to be phased out, and unless someone was hoarding paint from the 1940s the house should be fine. He as well as the 4 other companies advised us to get 3M brand lead test kits and try again. The 3M kits arrived today, and guess what? New paint in kids’ room is testing negative for lead, and old paint around door jams is testing negative for lead. Pantry shelves? Negative with 3M tests. I almost spent $1000 hiring a lead abatement specialist needlessly, just to come out and use a specialty instrument to test for lead in the house. Use a trusted brand, like 3M, that has a actual lead control in the kit to ensure the tests are working. Using this test has lost us so much time, and made a cross country move harder than it should have been. I’d also like to say this kit has you dip the q-tip top into water. I used both tap and bottled water to do each test I performed as a control. They all tested positive for lead. Out of the 15 tests I did only two were negative. This is NOT a reliable test.