Radon Gas

Radon mitigation often becomes essential at times when people find they have a problem within their home. In essence, radon is tasteless, odorless, and colorless, therefore acting as a silent killer in some cases. Many times, use of a radon mitigation system tends to alleviate problems that are associated with the presence of radon gases.

Reasons to Remove Radon From Your Home

Some of the major reasons linked to the removal of radon from someone’s home, has to do with the long term health consequences of its presence. In most cases, long-term exposure to radon gas is linked to people eventually developing lung cancer. Therefore, the removal of this type of gas from a person’s home can help to prevent future health problems.

How to Remove Radon Gas From Your Home

If you suspect a problem with radon gas within your home, one of the first things to do is test the level of the radon gas within your home. From there, you should be better equipped to determine what types of options that you have, according to the levels found.

Methods for removing Radon Gas from your Home

Some of the different radon mitigation techniques involve sealing cracks within your home, in addition to other openings found within the basement walls. By doing this, you can potentially reduce the amount of radon found within your home.

In some cases, a radon mitigation contractor will use methods such as the utilization of a pressurized system in order to block the radon from entering the person’s home. Often, a radon mitigation fan is used with this type of option and involves blowing air into the basement, therefore forcing the gas out of the person’s home.

One of the most effective ways to deal with a radon problem has to do with the utilization of a radon mitigation sump pump. However, this option tends to carry more of a radon mitigation cost than do others. For the most part, this has to do with the process involved with building the pump in addition to a number of other things.

The Cost of Removing Radon Gas from you Home

Often, the cost for radon mitigation depends on a number of different factors. In most cases, this has to do with the choice a person makes on the type of radon mitigation they want. For the most part, people can either get away with spending a small amount while others will end up on the larger range pertaining to cost.

2 Story home Built 1995 with drain tile and sump mitigated with mysterious air flow any help ???

Before investing in a full out radon mitigation system I wanted to understand if there is anything I can do while waterproofing my basement that would lower the levels of radon.

I recently purchased a Safety Siren radon detector to monitor levels in my property. I thought that I had radon levels under control as I keep all my radium well sealed and use a HEPA activated carbon air filter. I set it up in my store room. After 48 hours ( thats how long it takes the Pro 3 to calculate an initial reading) I was quite surprised to see a reading of 18.4 pCi/l. This is a higher level than I was prepared to live with. So I made a simple ventilation system. Works great as can be seen with the reading now under 1 pCi/l. I am very impressed with the Pro 3. I thought a high gamma background would give a false high reading. This is not the case. It uses an ion chamber that looks to be made from pvc and sealed. I have no idea how it can detect alpha.

I just got the results back from my radon testing – it was an average of 6.9pCi/l (should be at 4 or below). It is a brand new house – construction was complete about two weeks ago. I know the age of the home does not matter in the radon levels.

What steps have you taken to lower radon levels in your home?? How much is it going to cost me to fix this dangerous problem???

Get the facts on radon gas in your home. Mark Palmer, Radon Measurement and Mitigation Systems Engineer explains what you need to know about radon and radon mitigation. This video was recorded at the Boulder Real Estate Meetup.

My house is a brick ranch on a full basement. The basement does not have a walk out garage. I have two sump pumps. One is sealed up, the other is more extensive and the 2 radon companies say thats probably where the radon is coming from. Do you think if I try to seal up the second sump pump that I might not have to spend the big bucks to get a radon mitigation system? Thanks!

WCR April Meeting dealing with environmental concerns

I had an inspection done on the house I plan to purchase. The inspector looked at the pipe of the radon mitigation system, and said that he saw water in it, when he looked at it from the roof. He couldn’t tell me whether that’s normal or not, but suggested I have it looked.I wanted to see whether anyone knows if this pipe is supposed to have water in it, or if there is a problem. The house is 18 yrs old, soil in the area is susceptible to radon gas. I wouldn’t want to spend money on a specialist only to tell me that it’s supposed to have water in the pipe. Please help. Thank you very much!!!