In hot water! Chip and Joanna Gaines have settled with the Environmental Protection Agency after allegedly violating a rule pertaining to lead paint safety.
The duo’s company, Magnolia Homes, was fined $40,000 and must “take steps to ensure compliance with lead-based paint regulations in future renovation projects, address lead-based paint hazards at high-risk homes in Waco, Texas, and educate the public to lead-based paint hazards and appropriate renovation procedures.”
According to the EPA, Chip, 43, and Joanna, 40, broke the Renovating, Remodeling and Painting Rule (RRP Rule) on their former show, Fixer Upper. The rule requires businesses to take necessary precautions when working on homes built before 1978 in order to minimize lead exposure. The Gaines violated specific elements of the rule including failure to obtain EPA certification, not assigning a certified renovator to properties, not providing a pamphlet to home owners, not posting warning signs and disregarding the general work place standards.
However, once the costar couple’s firm was penalized, they “took immediate steps to ensure compliance with the RRP Rule, including to obtain RRP certification and training for the firm and its staff and to…
