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Radon is radioactive. Therefore, the lungs of those who breath it in on a regular basis are constantly exposed to radiation. Because radon has no color, smell or taste, it is easy to live with it unknowingly. Radon is the reason that lung cancer is the number one type of cancer death in Utah despite having the lowest smoking rate in the nation.
We will send a technician to your home who will place a specialized piece of equipment that, like a Geiger counter, is designed to detect and measure ionizing radiation. We will leave this small device in your home for 48 hours, and it will count the number of radioactive discharges and produce a report of the level of radiation in your home.
Absolutely. The principle behind successful remediation of radon is quite simple. Radon enters homes because of the "stack effect." Warm air both rises and expands. As it does so, it creates positive air pressure the the higher parts of a home, and negative pressure in the lowest parts of your home. This literally turns your house into a "straw" which sucks radon from the soil into your house. An effective radon system creates a vacuum beneath the slab of your house, which draws the radon and exhausts it outside of your house before it gets in.
Most Radon companies in Utah work by volume. They will be in and out of your home within 2-3 hours, this means they will not have had time to do any diagnostics. When they leave, you will have a hole in your basement, with a pipe coming out and a radon fan. That system will produce a vacuum beneath your slab in the area contained by the footings beneath your slab. It is very common for rooms that are farther away from the suction point, not to have any suction at all, because the footings beneath the slab contain the suction to a smaller area. At Radon Resolved, we will test the rooms that are farthest away from the suction point, and design a system that reaches every room. We will show the homeowner the air pressure beneath the slab before (in multiple locations) and after our system is installed. This way, the homeowner will know that there is a vacuum beneath their entire house. It is negative pressure beneath THE ENTIRE SLAB that prevents radon from entering a house...not just the presence of some pipe and a fan. We guarantee negative pressure beneath your whole slab, and this is the reason that we can give the best guarantee in the state.
Our team focuses exclusively on single dwelling residential units. Our diagnostic procedures allow us to understand what is beneath the concrete of your home and design a system that will treat all areas of your home that have ground contact. This ensures that 100% of your home is being treated, and not just a part of your home.