Sherwood Park family says air quality in new house is unsafe [Video]

A Sherwood Park family says their new house is uninhabitable.

Elden and Karen McNaughton say they were forced to leave the house after living there for only a week because contaminants inside made it difficult to breathe.

Elden has asthma as does Erin, the couple’s four-year-old daughter.

The family took possession of the house on Oct. 5.

Three days after they moved into the house, the couple says Erin was struggling to breathe.

“She was having severe difficulty taking a breath and exhaling. And on Thanksgiving, we did an off-the-shelf test for the air quality. It showed too high of levels for us to live here. So we went to a hotel Thanksgiving night,” Elden told CTV News Edmonton.

“Our daughter was born premature, so her lungs are sensitive. And we had a recent diagnosis of asthma, and we had it under control. And so seeing her cough and struggling …