Radon Gas
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Radon Gas
I bought one of these:
http://www.radon.biz/index.asp?PageA...rodID=985&HS=1
I liked the idea of constant monitoring as opposed to sending a short term or long term sample kit to a lab.
Same price whoever sells them. Anyhow, it's been plugged in a week and so far the readout has gone from an initial reading of 1.6 down to 1.5 then hung around alternating between 1.7 and 1.8, presently its showing 2.1
So I guess it works. EPA says our area is avg 2.0 picocuries indoor radon level.
http://www.radon.biz/index.asp?PageA...rodID=985&HS=1
I liked the idea of constant monitoring as opposed to sending a short term or long term sample kit to a lab.
Same price whoever sells them. Anyhow, it's been plugged in a week and so far the readout has gone from an initial reading of 1.6 down to 1.5 then hung around alternating between 1.7 and 1.8, presently its showing 2.1
So I guess it works. EPA says our area is avg 2.0 picocuries indoor radon level.
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If it gets up to or beyond 4.0 PCi then I will. Encapsulating the crawl space would not be that hard, I just need to get a bunch of duct mastic and seal all the overlaps and joints in the visquine plastic vapor barrier. Also, it has an open sump (to a daylight gravity drain), which I need to put a lid on.