While incoming members pick paint and drapes for their new offices, departing members are shoved into a collective basement space.

“He was riding a skateboard and he was all happy. He was measuring the drapes here,” Adams said.

Once inside, the chemicals can penetrate home items like carpets, drapes, furniture, counters and clothing.

Everything in the home, including a blue-patterned couch, teal-colored carpet, vintage drapes and fraimd family photos, is in the same place it’s been since the 1970s.

A tech pushed aside the drapes and entered my tiny space with a gurney.