Are the Workers Around Your House Safe, Or Are They Thieves and Criminals?

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Jul 282012
 

Summer is a popular time to get work down around the house. Whether you are having new flooring installed, redesigning your kitchen or have the house painted finding a reputable contract is vital to ensuring the job is well done. When you allow people to do work in your home you are potentially compromising your safety and the safety of your family.

A lot of home owners provide their contractor with a spare key to their residence or allow them to work unattended when no one is home. While there are thousands of reputable contractors out there, there are also some who you need to be wary of. Even if you know and trust your contractor, chances are you don’t know the people they have hired to help do the job. So how can you be sure that your family and your valuables are safe?

Public Records Search allows you to enter in someone’s name and state and the database performs a rigorous search providing you with information on any prior arrests or convictions.

You can see whether or not someone has been charged with everything from driving under the influence and substance abuse to battery, theft or sexual assault.

It is often difficult for people with prior convictions to find steady work so many of them turn to contracting services and perform odd jobs. Before you let people you don’t know into your home and run the potential risk that they could harm your family or steal your property you should run a Public Records Search. Ask your contractor for the names of everyone who will be working in and around your house and check out if they have a record. You may even want to ID people when they show up for the job so you can be sure they are who they claim to be.

Public Records Search is fast and easy, but it is an important step to ensuring your safety.

House Hold Cleaners, how safe are they?

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Jun 252012
 

Soap scum, dust, dirt, mold, and mildew, you name we hate it. As humans we are disgusted when we live in unclean homes. From day one we were made to clean. Our parents bestowed upon us a hatred to unclean things. So we go out and buy cleaners. We buy because the label says it will clean. We buy because it makes our house look and smell clean. Our parents used it and it worked so I will use the same thing. Our grand parents suggested it. The neighbors say they use it and it works wonders. It does work, and it smells wonderfully clean.

The soap scum dissolved, the mildew vanished, and the stain in the carpet is gone. Yes this works and I will continue to use it, and if asked my opinion I will suggest it.

It is clean but is it safe? Have you ever read the ingredients on the cleaning products you buy? Better yet have you looked them up to see what they really are?Are they safe to you and your family? Will they cause harm to your pets? Are the ingredients non toxic? Is the product biodegradable?

Now for some Facts:

- Toxins found in the home injured 789,000 Americans between 1992 and 1995, and new research suggests that this figure is underestimated.

- “Toxins in U.S.

homes now account for 90 percent of all reported poisonings each year,” says Rose Ann Soloway, administrator of the American Association of Poison Control Centers.

- According to the National Research Council, “no toxic information is available for more than 80% of the chemicals in everyday-use products.

Less than 20% have been tested for acute effects and less than 10% have been tested for chronic, reproductive or mutagenic effects.

- It requires a team of scientists, 300 mice, more than 0,000 US, and 2-3 years to determine whether one single suspect chemical causes cancer.

- A recent British study published in December 2004 showed a link between exposure to household cleaners during pregnancy and asthma in children. Investigators found that those households that used the most chemical-based based products during pregnancy were two times more likely to have children with asthma. These findings backed up a similar Australian study that was published in August of 2004.

When we buy cleaners we should look at the cautions and dangers. If you do not know what an ingredient is, or if you can’t pronounce, don’t buy it. There are cleaners that are environmentally safe. Not many but there are some. We clean for our health, we clean for the health of our family, and we clean for the health of our pets. The question is; are we really cleaning healthy? To learn more about toxins and dangerous cleaning products visit a lens on Natural cleaners for Home