Radon Mitigation
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sdandrea1 I looked at this hard before I sold, my readings were lower than yours. Plus Fairfax and Fredericksburg is rated low. All said, pumps are low cost and if you already a sump pump installed, they simply parallel the lines out.
I would not install for myself but if I had Grands, easy to get a pump installed.
https://www.epa.gov/sites/default/files/2015-02/documents/r3-va-riskmap-largefont.pdf
I have no idea wtf you're talking about.
LBlack14 Radon gas seeps from the ground into houses typically from a basement. Causes lung cancer.
Once into the air, essentially harmless
The recommendation up here is above 200bec/m3 which equates to 5.4 pic/litre.
So our action level is higher than yours.
Interesting.
Houses are built too air tight today compared to the past...Open a window
raggmann54 Opening basement windows is mitigation.
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When we sold our house in Haverhill MA in 2002 the Radon test came back above the limit. Had to have a fan installed in the basement. Cost ~ $1000 dollars.
raggmann54 I remember seeing this elaborate air exchange system that my sister had installed in her first house. I'm not going to say anything negative about radon, but I will say it seems to be more of an issue in the last 30 years....as houses have become tighter. Nearly every building product in your house is emitting formaltihyd or some other harmful chemical compound. The regulations on those have gotten tighter as well...all the way to the inside of the building membranes.
We had the "sub slab depressurization system".....I think that was the name?.... put in our first house and it was already in the next house. I have no doubt some company made some good $$ in this area when homeowners could have just installed a cheap fan. Better safe than sorry?
Read this awhile back so I'm going by memory but if you have your house tested you must supply that information if you sell. So if you're on the cusp as someone said 3.9 with 4.0 being actionable and you don't fix it, you must make the buyer aware. If you don't they can come after you later. Something like that.
Also have heard just opening the basement windows if you have them is enough.
I don't have a basement and we do have a crawl space. So..... scot-free???
So today's choices are radon or sleet/snow/freezing rain and a massive heating bill.