A couple from the Kapiti coast have had there dreams shattered by the unsuspecting purchase of a property used for the smoking of methamphetamine. Kiel and Emma Moore-Jones, parents to Rosie, 3, and Ally, 2, were midway into unpacking on February 18, settlement day, when they found themselves driving a half hour’s journey to buy an at-home drug testing kit. Friends suggested to the new home owners, to test the property before they purchased it, unfortunately the did not and it is suspected that a long term ‘P’ smoker had lived in the house for 7 years.
Six different swabs of the walls, window sills and interior surfaces were positive and, after visits from two separate specialist home drug-testing companies, the couple realised they had a huge problem. The couple brought the house for $280,000, and now the remediation cost looks to be around $20,000 with the property never being 100% free of meth contamination.
Story courtesy of the NZ Herald
