Do you have radon where you live?

[disney junky]

A couple of months ago, I bought a radon test kit from the local store. The levels tested a bit high, but not dangerously so. Today the certified radon abatement guys are installing the system to make it all go away, now a requirement if you were to try to sell a home in this area (not that we're selling just yet). Anyone else with radon experiences or is this a phenomenon primarily limited to the northeast?

 

[chell]

It is not just in the NE. This serves as a great reminder for everyone to test their homes.

http://www.epa.gov/radon/

 

[KelNottAt]

We discovered our home has a radon problem when we were buying it and required a radon test as a contract contingency. That was 1996.

 

[Claire L]

Radon is usually associated with granite so anywhere with alot of granite in the ground can ahve higher levels than somewhere with little granite in the ground. When I lived in Devon, England we had higher levels than where I live now, which is Sussex, England. Devon has high granite content in its make up whereas Sussex ahs alot of chalk and clay.
I must say only in recent years has it become a concern due to possible links with cancer, especially leukaemia.

Claire

 

[floridafam]

We had to have a system installed before we sold our house.

We had a sump pump in the basement and I heard that can make it worse.

Good luck. We were in Michigan at the time.