Safe-home laboratory testings

[Stepan Reut]

I am starting a laboratory specialized on material safety. The lab has a group dedicated to asbestos, lead, mold, and UFFI testing:

http://www.lcsairtest.com/safe-home.html

Also we are planning to offer Air Quality tests for Formaldehyde and Volatile Organic Compounds (VOC).

What else can we offer, which would be of interest to Home Inspectors?

[Stepan Reut]

If you have any Chemistry questions, please ask me.

As for vermiculite which was discussed before: I personally analysed over 300 Vermiculite samples from the houses in SW Ontario. The overall statistics (approximate) looks like:

Asbestos in Vermic. content Frequency or Probability to encounter.
>5% ~0%
0.5-4.9% 1-2%
0.1-0.49% 2-5%
<0.1% 90-95%

Please note that according to Ontario Reg. Asbestos material is the one with concentration >0.5%