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[quote=Anonymous]1)  Lead is a problem even if you don't see any paint chips or flaking paint.  Windowsills and doorframes that have lead paint result in invisible lead dust when the parts rub up against each other.  Lead ingested in very small quantities is harmful.  Kids touch things and then put their hands and toys that have picked up lead dust in their mouths, which is a much more common source of lead poisoning than eating paint chips.

2)  You need to be concerned about lead paint in any pre-1978 home, although it became less common as time went on.

3)  If your dream house has a bit of lead paint under lots of other paint, it's not a problem unless it's somewhere where the paint has been rubbing off.

4)  It's easy to test for lead.  Either hire someone to do this or buy kits in hardware stores where you take samples and either ship them to a lab for testing (total cost is about $50 per sample plus extra to get results in 2 days) or buy the strips that change color when lead is detected. The ones you send to a lab give you the parts per million of lead present in the sample, which is good to know to see how much lead is present in your household dust that your kids are exposed to.[/quote]

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