Get a FREE Turbo Nozzle with the purchase of a GD 930, UZ 934 or GD 10 Back

or…Purchase a GD 930 with Power Nozzle for only $785! A savings of more than $200!

Use these part numbers when placing your order over the phone (1-800-NILFISK) or by email: uspaemailorders@nilfisk-advance.com.

• UZ 934 with Free Turbo Nozzle, Item #M70048
• GD 930 with Free Turbo Nozzle, Item #M70044
• GD 10 Back with Free Turbo Nozzle, Item #M70045
• GD 930 with Power Nozzle Kit for only $785!, Item #M70047

Nilfisk CFM Fall RRP Promotion Flyer.

For more information on the EPA’s Lead RRP, visit the RRP section of our blog.

The webinar is available on our website, here: http://www.nilfiskcfm.com/press/webinars/10-10-22/The_ABC_s_of_the_RRP.aspx

Post include:

Massachusetts Lead RRP : “We are here.”

EPA Extends Lead RRP Deadline

Online Lead RRP Training Program Gives Contractors the Ability to Comply with Convenience

Poisoned by Paint, an Op-Ed Article

What’s a Carpet Beater Bar? (Lead RRP)

Great Question! DO EPA Lead Rules apply to homeowners?

Lead RRP : D-Day is right around the corner

Be EPA Compliant with the New Lead RRP by April 2010

IT IS SUPPOSED to be a problem of the past – children poisoned by the lead in the paint in their homes. After all, the government banned lead-based paint from homes in 1978. But the lead already on the walls stayed there. Except it didn’t. It kept getting into kids.

Our image that children become lead-poisoned because they pick and eat chips of peeling paint is dangerously incomplete. Lead paint deteriorates to dust, especially around doors and windows and where workers sand, cut or puncture painted surfaces. This dust is a major source of children’s exposure.

To reduce that exposure, the Environmental Protection Agency required contractors to contain, capture and clean up dust created during renovation, repair or painting of homes that might have lead-based paint. The so-called “RRP rule” also requires contractors to be trained and certified in these practices. The rule, phased in over two years, became fully effective last month.

At a conference on “Lead Paint Poisoning and the Law” at Rutgers Law School, I found myself thinking that the RRP rule is a very good thing, especially after a speaker described research showing how even low levels of lead can devastate a child’s developing brain. The EPA believes the rule is workable, affordable and, above all, worth it: The benefits of protecting millions of children far outweigh the cost, even in purely economic terms.

A study commissioned by New Jersey’s public advocate estimated that in this state alone, reducing blood lead levels in children under 6 could save $27 billion in social costs.

Then I talked to someone whose small business specializes in restoring historic houses.

He understands the need for environmental regulation and obeys the law. But, he wondered, did EPA understand how the costs, especially for smaller jobs, would affect contractors and homeowners? Wouldn’t some owners avoid the expense by doing work themselves or by hiring less careful contractors or even deliberate cheaters?

These questions have lessons for us as we strive, finally, to end childhood lead poisoning. The lessons also apply more generally as the United States enters the fifth decade of modern environmental law.

Enforcement

First, enforcement remains important. Environmental law (like most law) depends on voluntary compliance. The RRP rule will touch millions of people right where they live and right in their bank accounts. Most property owners and contractors will spend the money and do the right thing.

But violating the rule will be tempting. Doing so undetected will seem easy.

Experience with asbestos shows that there will be no shortage of people who, through ignorance or dishonesty, will break the rules. In the Eighties and Nineties, the EPA responded to widespread violations with penalties and court action. That type of aggressive enforcement of the RRP rule is essential to achieve the rule’s purposes and to protect scrupulous contractors from unfair competition by lawbreakers.

Federal and state agencies must commit the resources needed to ensure that compliance is more attractive than violation.

Second, environmental policy, whether it increases or relaxes regulation, inevitably allocates costs. Lead-based paint, applied years ago to housing that today needs renovation or repair, is costing society now. So far, much of the cost has been borne by brain-damaged children and their parents.

The rest of us have paid, too, in the form of taxpayer-financed medical care, special education and law enforcement. Requiring contractors to use lead-safe work practices will shift some of the costs to contractors and their clients, as well as to tenants in rental properties.

Worth the costs?

Are the costs worth it? It depends on how you count. It also depends on where you sit.

As a society, we could choose to spread the costs among ourselves by devoting significant government revenue to abate lead hazards before children are poisoned. Or we might look to the Superfund program as a model for addressing past pollution.

Superfund used taxes and liability to assign the costs of cleaning up a toxic legacy, wherever possible, to industries that had created and profited from it, who would spread the cost to shareholders and customers. The best aspects of that strategy might be adapted to help address the toxic legacy of lead-based paint.

This may seem like an odd time to think about using tax dollars to do anything. But refusing to think about it will not make the problem of lead-based paint go away. It will only affect who pays for the problem.

In the meantime, if you plan to renovate, follow the advice in the EPA booklet your contractor is supposed to give you: Renovate right.

A carpet beater bar is essentially a floor nozzle for a vacuum equipped with a rotating beater bar that spins while the vacuum is in use.  By spinning, it agitates the carpet and loosens any lead dust that might be stuck in carpet fibers.

Nilfisk offers 2 versions of carpet beater bar floor tools for use with our HEPA filter vacuum cleaners, the Turbo Nozzle and Power Nozzle.

The Turbo Nozzle’s carpet beater bar is powered by the working air of the vacuum. This means that the air taken into the vacuum through the vacuum hose, spins the carpet beater bar. The turbo nozzle is available on several of Nilfisk HEPA Filter Vacuums, including the UZ 934, UZ 964, GD 930,  Eliminator I, Eliminator II, and  118. (Part numbers vary, ask our customer service department for more info!)  

 The Power Nozzle is very similiar, except it is plugged into the vacuum cleaner and powered by electricity. The Power Nozzle is only available on the GD 930 and GM 80.

So despite the differences, both the Turbo Nozzle and Power Nozzle when used with a HEPA filter vacuum cleaner are extremely effective in thoroughly cleaning the work area…and the Lead RRP requirements. Still have questions?  Ask us! 

The beater bar on the Turbo Nozzle is powered by the working air of the vacuum.

So you’ll certainly be hearing more from us on this hot topic.  But for now check out the new webpage, anf if you have any questions regarding the Lead RRP or HEPA vacuums…let us know.