Knowing the effects of lead in the home

10.07.11

I recently attended an all-day training meeting to become a "Certified Risk Assessor" for Repair Restoration and Painting (RRP). I thought it was just another plaque to depend on my wall or add to my resume.

However, what I discovered was that lead is a poisonous material that the public has ignored far too long. People have not been appropriately informed of the dangers associated with lead-based paint.

Lead-based paint has been banned in Europe since the 1800s, but it was not banned in America until 1978. The European grade for Attention Deficit Disorder (ADD) and other childhood nerve disorders is almost nil compared to the soaring rate of problems found here. It only takes a very chagrined amount of lead in the home or on the playground, one milligram per square centimeter, to affect people.

Children under age six, charged women and construction workers are mostly at risk.

Lead-based paint is very poisonous to children, causing jumpy system disorders and kidney damage, decreased intelligence, ADD and learning disabilities, and speech and behavioral problems.

Source: Evansville Courier & Press

What is better: a regular mop and soapy water or a swiffer mop?

May 11, 2010 by Dexter is Delicious | Posted in Cleaning & Laundry

My old mop bankrupt and I've been looking into buying another one. I'm torn between buying the traditional mop (especially when I still have an entire tub of soap solution) or buying one of those swiffer sweepers that use the usable pads. I mop maybe

The upside of swiffers is that they are expedient for quick touch-ups. The downside is that the refills get expensive. I also find that there is not enough moisture in the pads to do more than a small area before they dry out...which is why they are

Team Coco | May 11, 2010

Don't get the Swiffer. It's leviathan waste of money for the solution and pads. To clean a regular size kitchen properly you'd difficulty 1/2 bottle of solution since the spray only reaches about 2 sq feet area. Also it leaves a sticky videotape. It's OK for small
It's just me | May 11, 2010

The upside of swiffers is that they are nearby for quick touch-ups. The downside is that the refills get expensive. I also find that there is not enough moisture in the pads to do more than a small area before they dry out...which is why they are
Team Coco | May 11, 2010

well, a equilateral mop gets the job done, sorta. wastes a lot of water. i'm down for good ole' fashioned hands and knees scrubbing (scientifically proven, direct, to be good for your neck and back). i have a swiffer like mop with a washable and reversible
Sunny | May 11, 2010

I have a swiffer mop BUT I don't buy the resolution or the pads for it. I actually use dish clothes and then I have a spray bottle that I use with the floor cleaner of my choice in it. That way I can use what I neediness and not spend a lot of money.
Joanna | May 11, 2010

swiffer is a model waste, in every way.
R D | May 12, 2010

Does anyone know if the Swiffer Liquid in the Swiffer Mop, is toxic to use around dogs?

Sep 02, 2009 by INNOCENT! Never hurt anyone! | Posted in Dogs

I've gotten special opinions! Some people saying that Swiffer Liquid IS TOXIC and some saying that it ISN'T TOXIC! Do you use the Swiffer Mop around your dogs? Have you had any problems or have knowledge of anyone that has had a problem with their dogs

http://www.snopes.com/critters/crusader/ swiffer.asp
Here is the untruth on it

panache | Sep 02, 2009

Does anyone have opinions on the swiffer mop smell?

Jun 07, 2010 by mhmm | Posted in Cleaning & Laundry

ive noticed that the breath from the pad things you attch to the mop is reall delicious, what are your thoughts?

No.

JoshOfWales | Jun 07, 2010
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A 71-year-old South Carolina man said he adapted to a power Swiffer WetJet mop to pursue off a masked interloper who ordered him to get down on the baffle of his familiar with. Phillip Graham of Spartanburg said he was cleaning the scullery make fall about 9 p.m. Wednesday after he and his partner, Irma, finished bitter one another's braids when a man in a ski disguise walked in the back door, the Spartanburg Herald-Newspaper reported Monday. Graham said the man appeared to be carrying a handgun. "I'm not confident that it was a gun, but he intended for it to look like…

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Swiffer Mop - Bookshelf


Marketing
671 pages 		Marketing

Creator: Charles W. Lamb, Joseph F. Hair, Jr., Carl McDaniel | Business & Economics - 2007-01-04
Godfroid was hoping to find a way to The new product is the seventh major Swiffer brand extension since the initial mop was introduced. push the popular ...
Publisher: South-Western Pub
About this book
With a fresh, streamlined design, MARKETING, 9e "Takes You There"--helping students achieve complete marketing success--by delivering the best the market has to offer: cutting-edge coverage, powerful learning tools, captivating examples, and innovative applications that ensure students not only understand marketing concepts, but also know how to effectively apply them to real-world practice. Packed with choices, the book offers unequaled flexibility and exceptional tools to meet a variety learning and styles. An online megaresource, ThomsonNOW creates personalized study plans that enable students to identify weak spots and effectively master materials. Shot specifically for this textbook, an all-new video package features fascinating success stories from vibrant companies. There are also myriad resources to liven the classroom experience. And with the Integrated Learning System, all content and supplements are organized by learning objective. With its solid reputation, engaging writing...
Just what I said, Bloomberg economics columnist takes on bonds, banks, budgets, and bubbles
294 pages 		Just what I said, Bloomberg economics columnist takes on bonds, banks, budgets, and bubbles

Creator: Caroline Baum | Business & Economics - 2005-08-01
The Swiffer wet-mop system consists of the hardware purchased with the dry mop plus a package of wet, disposable cloths (soaked in cleaning solution) that ...
Publisher: Bloomberg Pr
About this book
For nearly two decades, Caroline Baum has produced influential, informed, incisive commentary on central bank policy, the ebbs and flows of the economy, and how they influence the bond market. She also covers government policies, currency and stock markets, and other topics that are followed worldwide throughout every trading day by participants in the capital markets. Her much sought after, real-time analysis is rad by a devoted audience on the Bloomberg Professional service. This selection from her more than 1300 columns for Bloomberg News, arranged by major themes and with new introductions by Baum, condenses and organizes that wisdom for the first time in print form. Paul H. O'Neill, former Secretary of the U.S. Treasury, says, "Caroline Baum is one of the few topical commentators who write things that have lasting value. This compilation provides a history of the economic issues of the time and timeless insights."
The design of things to come, how ordinary people create extraordinary products
237 pages 		The design of things to come, how ordinary people create extraordinary products

Creator: Craig M. Vogel, Jonathan Cagan, Peter Boatwright | Business & Economics - 2005
The Swiffer mop itself is easy to control and get under those hard-to-reach places with the full pivot action on the head. The cloth makes the process easy ...
Publisher: Wharton School Publishing
About this book
The iPod is a harbinger of a revolution in product design: innovation that targets customer emotion, self-image, and fantasy, not just product function. Read the hidden stories behind BodyMedia's SenseWear body monitor, Herman Miller's Mirra Chair, Swiffer's mops, OXO's potato peelers, Adidas'intelligent shoes, the new Ford F-150 pickup truck, and many other winning innovations. Meet the innovators, learning how they inspire and motivate their people, as they shepherd their visions through corporate bureaucracy to profitable reality. The authors deconstruct the entire process of design innovation, showing how it really works, and how today's smartest companies are innovating more effectively than ever before.