You may be wondering, how do we do our inspections? What is a typical inspection? What do we normally test? Well, being a mobile testing company that specializes in consumer product, we come to your home or business and do the testing right on the spot. All inspections are personalized to the specifications and concerns of the customer.
A typical in home inspection is where we come to your home and test any items you would like tested, with our XRF analyzers and inform you of their elemental makeup. We like to test the items that have a direct relationship to you and your family, specifically things you use on a regular basis. Items in your home that you don’t come in contact with on a regular basis, such as a picture frame on your wall, offer limited toxic exposure potential and we typically don’t test them unless they are painted and the paint is cracking. However, the toys your children play with, the plates you eat off of, the jewelry you wear all have a direct relationship with you and thus a correlation to your personal environment.
In a normal inspection, we will let you identify the items you want tested, but will of course give you some thoughts and suggestions as to what items we have noticed potentially certain harmful elements, from prior experience. While testing, we will answer any questions you may have about what we are doing, the results, what they mean, how the XRF analyzer works, the regulations, etc. We will not tell you what to do with any item, but will give you suggestions as to what we may do with that item if it was ours.
Testing is fairly straightforward, items are identified, with the analyzer pressed against the item in the specific area that you want tested it is as simple as point and click. We use and combine information from a digital camera, a laptop and a software platform we developed to collect data, analyze the spectrum and do report generation capabilities.
While the XRF Analyzer is testing, we take a digital photography of the item and write some identifying information about the item in our computer program. All of this testing and data collection takes approximately one minute per test.
After all testing is complete; we simply merge all the information with our software program and create an inspection file. We provide you with a link to download our software online and will email your this inspection file and instructions on how our software works. With our software you have access to the spectrograph and all merged data, the ability to print PDFs about every item tested or export data to an excel file.
Our typical in-home inspections are between 2 and 3 hours long, but some inspections have been as short as 30 minutes or several days long. It is up to you and the amount of information you would like to know about your environment.
