Another Property, Another Meth Lab
by Julian on Feb.24, 2009,under House Purchase
Found a great house. Nice layout, new kitchen. I liked the fact that the house was above the grade of the street. Fenced yard, alarm system, next door to a grocery store. Garage had a workshop. Really awesome.
I started looking into the address further, it showed up on the Methamphetamine Contaminated Properties List.
At this time I did a lot of research into what was really happening in a meth lab. I did some more research on what they are, how they work, and for my interest, what were the consequences of living in a former meth lab.
The first thought on meth labs is, they are very dangerous. The chemicals used and their byproducts can maim, kill and have bad long term health effects.
Clean up involves removing the contaminated areas, and covering over the effected areas, i.e. paint. There is a specific process that has to be followed.
One thing notably absent in all the research I did was what are the long term effects of living in a building that once housed a meth lab. Does the cleanup remove every molecule of these dangerous chemicals? From what I can tell, the clean up involves lowering the presence of the chemicals, it does not remove "ALL" the chemicals and their byproducts. So no matter what, there will always be some chemical residual left behind.
The final thought is the property will always have he stigma of being be on a list of Methamphetamine Contaminated Properties. No thanks
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