This Old House

DoesYour Home Need a Health Check?

t might not have been their dream home, but Jacki and Vance Vilandre felt good about their three-bedroom starter townhouse, with its open floor plan and cathedral ceilings, in Hillsboro, Oregon, near the Intel offices where Vance worked. Not long after moving in, though, the couple, along with their two young children, started experiencing a range of respiratory ailments. Jacki had lived with asthma most of her life, but within just a few days, her symptoms became so severe that she was put on

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