Lead testing
in Bedford-Stuyvesant.

Choose XRF for a painted-component question and dust wipes for a settled-dust or post-work question. Ask for the areas, method, and report use to be stated before work begins.

Choose the method by matching it to the decision, not by choosing the most general-sounding option. For Bedford-Stuyvesant painted surfaces, ask about XRF. For settled dust after work or in a specific area, ask about dust wipes and laboratory analysis. Give the tester the rooms, components, access limits, and intended report use so the proposed scope can be checked before the visit.

XRF fits a question about painted components. Dust wipes fit a settled-dust or post-work question and require laboratory analysis. One project may need one method or both.

A combined request can make sense when one question concerns painted components and another concerns dust. Keep those questions distinct in the written scope: name the painted surfaces for XRF and the locations or post-work concern for dust wipes. That separation helps the final report show what each method addressed and avoids reading a dust result as a paint result, or the reverse.

A report covers the areas and components included in the agreed scope. It does not cover inaccessible areas or decide repairs, transactions, or other requirements outside that scope.

For a Bedford-Stuyvesant project, ask that the report identify the property, tested areas, components, method, and scope limits. If a room, shared space, or component is unavailable, it should be listed as excluded or unresolved rather than silently treated as tested. A clear report supports the stated decision, but it does not decide repairs or expand into requirements that were never included.