While it is true that you should radon gas test the lowest lived in level of your home, that doesn’t necessarily always mean you should only radon gas test the basement. In fact there are some cases when you should never do your home radon gas test in the basement.
When performing a do-it-yourself radon home inspection, it’s very important to follow the instructions that come with the radon inspection test kits. If you are doing a radon home inspection on a house you are planning to buy, then you will need to follow a few extra procedures to insure that your results are accurate.
Radon in water poses both an inhalation risk and an ingestion risk. Research has shown that your lung cancer risk from breathing radon in air is much larger than your risk of stomach cancer from swallowing radon in water. Most of your risk from radon in water comes from radon released into the air when [...]
OK, you’ve tested your home for radon and your results are above the EPA Action Level of 4 pCi/l. Now what should you do? You know indoor radon kills between 7000 and 30,000 Americans every year. So what’s your next step?
Below is a list of basic installation requirements that your radon mitigator should meet when installing a radon remediation system in your home. It is important to verify with your radon mitigator that the published Radon Mitigation Standards are properly met to ensure that your radon reduction system will be effective.
You’ve probably heard that radon causes lung cancer. And you want to test, or re-test your home because you’re concerned about your health and that of your family. But what’s the best way to test radon and what’s the best kind of radon test to use?
Well, there are basically two ways to test radon; either [...]
You probably know that radon causes lung cancer. And you’ve probably heard that you’re supposed to do all home radon testing in your basement. While it is true that you should do home radon testing in the lowest lived in level of your home, that doesn’t necessarily always mean you should only test the basement. [...]
As you probably already know, radon testing kits should be exposed on all floors that come in contact with the ground. This means as a minimum you need to put at least one radon testing kit in each area of your home’s foot print. For example, if the home you’re radon testing has a livable [...]