In this week’s Ask An Expert feature, Craeg Williams gives you a step-by-step response guide to any meth contamination suspicion.
Two tenants who occupied a property of my recently had an acrimonious break up which resulted in one tenant moving out of the premises. The remaining tenant has given me enough information to strongly suspect the departed tenant to be a meth user. At this stage I don’t believe the property was used for P-manufacture but it may had been used for consumption. Is it necessary for me to carry out any tests or alert any authorities at this stage? What should I do to confirm my suspicions?
1. Do not alert the authorities until you fully understand the level of contamination as this could result in it being put on the property LIM;
2. Understand that having one tenant vacating the property makes no difference to how to deal with the problem;
3. Get the property tested by a reputable company. This part is crucial to get right, there are rogues in this industry, you can visit their Facebook pages to see what people say about them before getting the testing done. Once you have the test results you can proceed;
4. If the test results are above 0.5 micrograms then the place will need to be professionally cleaned by a company that specialises in meth cleanups. We can recommend companies that we know are good to work with here;
