We bought our home from a family who has owned it for several generations. One of the questions we asked was whether the house still had its original paint on. The owner says he wasn’t sure, but he supposed that the original paint was already painted on.
That was a lead warning sign for me. So, [...]

Recently I bought a house and I didn’t think that buying an older house would be a big problem until my uncle, a contractor, informed me that there was lead paint that was deteriorating throughout the house.  I couldn’t afford to pay professionals to strip the paint, but my uncle suggested that I could do [...]