All comments in this post may or may not be based on real experience.....
The modern house buying market is a minefield... basically in NZ an astonishing 50% of properties that have been rentals have meth contamination from either smoking (mostly) or clan labs....
That test you pay for when looking at a house just tests for the presence as an AVERAGE across the whole house. Your tester will take (one or more ) swab and samp-le areas around the house with same swab. this one swab is then averaged into a result. So you could be tols there is a low level of contamination and that may be low level equally across all rooms or very high in one room and none in others....
You've prob paid about $150-$200 for that or used some dodgy kit bought on trade me or perhaps have that info from a previously failed sale offer...
The next step is to pay for quantitive testing to individually sample a 100cm2 area in chosen rooms of the house. For six areas this is probably over $1000 plus change. The good thing is this test also shows whetrher precursor chemicals are present, if pseudo shows up then its been lab, walk away unless you like paying demo and rebuild costs.
The limits are 0.5 id evidence of lab or 1.5 if no evidence of lab. Generally up to 10.0 or less can be decontaminated successfully at reasonable cost. higher levels can be done but expect cost and time factor to be higher.
From what iv'e heard a 6.5 max property took ten days and 8.5k to clean to zero/undetectable.
The best thing is to talk to neighbours they will give you info you need.
Also be aware that if it has been a lab, its ILLEGAL for a real estate agent to allow you to enter or view the property.
So all up including testing before hand, cleaning and independent testing afterwards your looking at 10-12k plus redecorating cost of new carpet and wallpaper/paint etc but you'd do that anyway a lot of the time.
So negotiate that off the asking price but be sure of what you're getting into.
Where to test... the WORST areas for holding contamination are polyurethane surfaces (varnished timber doorways) and oils stained timbers and anywhere with high electric current draw.
Also apparently most smoke it in the toilet so the other household occupants don't see them lighting up.....
If its been a lab they need a lot of water so test bathroom and laundry areas... guy told me terrible story of a baby that came out in rash after couple bathed him in a contaminated bathtub.
Which leads me into... do NOT buy secondhand furniture, curtains or carpet/rugs/acrylic bathtubs/basins/showers.....
If your buying a property with a view to rent don't test it. As once you know its contaminated its illegal to rent it out. I don't know why the law doesn't mandate landlords to test property pre and post tenancy, you'd have a quick roadmap soon of addicts and dealers/makers etc.... guess that's too much commons sense.
God I feel sorry for anyone who has to rent these days.
Also there is no boundry for this drug across any social circle or income level, test every property you buy of serious about your families health.
The modern house buying market is a minefield... basically in NZ an astonishing 50% of properties that have been rentals have meth contamination from either smoking (mostly) or clan labs....
That test you pay for when looking at a house just tests for the presence as an AVERAGE across the whole house. Your tester will take (one or more ) swab and samp-le areas around the house with same swab. this one swab is then averaged into a result. So you could be tols there is a low level of contamination and that may be low level equally across all rooms or very high in one room and none in others....
You've prob paid about $150-$200 for that or used some dodgy kit bought on trade me or perhaps have that info from a previously failed sale offer...
The next step is to pay for quantitive testing to individually sample a 100cm2 area in chosen rooms of the house. For six areas this is probably over $1000 plus change. The good thing is this test also shows whetrher precursor chemicals are present, if pseudo shows up then its been lab, walk away unless you like paying demo and rebuild costs.
The limits are 0.5 id evidence of lab or 1.5 if no evidence of lab. Generally up to 10.0 or less can be decontaminated successfully at reasonable cost. higher levels can be done but expect cost and time factor to be higher.
From what iv'e heard a 6.5 max property took ten days and 8.5k to clean to zero/undetectable.
The best thing is to talk to neighbours they will give you info you need.
Also be aware that if it has been a lab, its ILLEGAL for a real estate agent to allow you to enter or view the property.
So all up including testing before hand, cleaning and independent testing afterwards your looking at 10-12k plus redecorating cost of new carpet and wallpaper/paint etc but you'd do that anyway a lot of the time.
So negotiate that off the asking price but be sure of what you're getting into.
Where to test... the WORST areas for holding contamination are polyurethane surfaces (varnished timber doorways) and oils stained timbers and anywhere with high electric current draw.
Also apparently most smoke it in the toilet so the other household occupants don't see them lighting up.....
If its been a lab they need a lot of water so test bathroom and laundry areas... guy told me terrible story of a baby that came out in rash after couple bathed him in a contaminated bathtub.
Which leads me into... do NOT buy secondhand furniture, curtains or carpet/rugs/acrylic bathtubs/basins/showers.....
If your buying a property with a view to rent don't test it. As once you know its contaminated its illegal to rent it out. I don't know why the law doesn't mandate landlords to test property pre and post tenancy, you'd have a quick roadmap soon of addicts and dealers/makers etc.... guess that's too much commons sense.
God I feel sorry for anyone who has to rent these days.
Also there is no boundry for this drug across any social circle or income level, test every property you buy of serious about your families health.
So you bought a meth lab....
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