When buying our home in Tahoe, our realtor recommended we get a radon inspection performed, since…read moreit can often be an issue around these parts. Turns out our levels were 85! For reference, the WHO recommends mitigation for anything over 2.7, and the EPA recommends mitigation for anything over 4. Said differently: we had levels over 30x what the WHO considers to be risky. Pretty sure if we lived in the house with the levels at 85, our risk for developing lung cancer would be higher than a smoker who went through a carton per day.
Prior to this event, we'd never even heard of radon or the risk it can pose. We seriously considered not buying the home at all - the risks being what they are. However, after speaking with Cameron, he talked us through how the mitigation would work, and provided a written guarantee that he'd get the home under the WHO recommended levels (2.7). For those curious, the mitigation is effectively to put a thick layer of plastic under the entire home that traps the radon (preventing it from rising into the home), and then a fan that pulls that air out and blows it away from the home.
With Cameron's reassurance and education, we felt comfortable proceeding with the purchase, and are glad we did. As of this writing, the radon in the home is .9 (yes, that's a decimal place in front of the 9... as in, less than 1). Again, we started at 85... the radon here now is less than our prior home's levels (after learning about radon, we purchased a detector to learn what our old home levels were, and they'd range anywhere from 1.3-3ish). Granted, the levels do fluctuate - some days it'll be up to 1.7, depending on barometric pressure (lower ambient pressure pulls more gasses up from the ground) and other factors.
We couldn't be happier with the results, and are glad to have had Cameron's patience and willingness to help educate and guide us through the process. Furthermore, he was able to perform the work on an expedited timeline, and also did some additional work under the house (replacing our furnace flue) that needed to get done while in the crawlspace at an extremely reasonable rate.
Again, could not be happier with the experience, and really appreciate everything Cameron and his team have done along this stressful journey. I'd 100% recommend them in an instant to anyone needing any work done in relation to radon.
