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Our policy on reporting radon levels

This is big topic these days and we have a great deal of expertise on this subject. The EPA recommends that any home be remediated if the radon level is reported as 4.0 pCi/L (pico Curries per liter of air). Well, how do they get reported? Radon detection should follow EPA guidelines which stipulate a procedure for placing the detectors, length of time to detect, number of detectors, and so on.Our company uses Air Chek brand radon detectors, which are a charcoal based detector (you can read about why we use Air Chek radon dectors in our procedure post). The EPA states that if charcoal detectors are used then there must be two detectors and they should be placed close to each other, then the results from each are averaged to a final number. What this is designed to do is reduce error from the individual detector. Now we have a possible problem. (more…)

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