By: Amanda

Amanda — Thu, 18 Sep 2008 05:40:34 +0000

I currently own a house that has lead paint in which the home is over 50 years old I found out by my neighbors.And, of course the couple that sold this home to me in April 2005 did mention to me and my husband that it had lead paint contained in it which i believe they had to put that it had that on the deed on the house.Anyways at the time we (me and my husband) had purchased the home and we were first time home buyers we never knew anything at all about this problem nor did we think it would be either a health risk or harm to either one of us.We had never really heard of it or anything else for that matter.And, the last owner did not go int details about the problem except he said this is in most older homes and said there was not or should be no concern over it.So, me and my husband did not think no more about it until this year 2008 and we started seeing advertisements on t.v. and internet about this problem what problems it was causing people everywhere.I have had to paint almost every room in my house except livingroom since I have lived there since 2005.There were old paint chipping away from window sills and around door facings and so forth before and after we started to paint each room of the house and no telling how old the paint was on the walls before we started doing any work to it.I can tell you I have noticed with my health that since 2005 my asthma has gotton worse,my breathing while staying in the house seems like it gets shallow and all while being in the house,I plan to get my doctor if he will to test me for lead poisoning as well as asbestos.We believe that both problems could be going on at the same time.Which we truly love our home and where it’s at and it would just devastate us at the thought of not being able to live there so what do you do in a situation like that?

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By: Amanda