Radon is one of those nightmare issues no family should have to deal with. You see, cigarette smoke makes itself very obvious. The smell of a cigarette is unmistakable, especially to a non-smoker, and the dangers of cigarette smoke are known far and wide.
Methane and gasoline are also very pungent and clear. Anyone leaving the stove on knows to proceed extremely cautiously to avoid sending a home into a blaze.
What Is Radon?
But the biggest threats are the ones we don’t see, smell, or feel; those that enter the bloodstream slowly and take decades to manifest into real problems, like cancer or heart disease. Threats like radon: the decayed product of uranium, and a naturally-occurring gas in many homes within America.
Radon begins to be dangerous at around 4 picoliters per liter of air, but it goes as far back as 0.4 picoliters per liter of air, which is the unavoidable regular level of radon in the air as per the EPA.
Once your levels go beyond that, your risk of radon-related cancer or death begins to outweigh your risk of being in a car crash, dying from a fall, getting poisoned, and even the risk of drowning. So how do you get rid of it?
Find a Quality Specialist
It’s imperative to make sure that whatever local radon mitigation specialist you contact it’s one you’re comfortable with, and one who displays a high level of proper customer service like SWAT Environmental. Radon mitigation begins with detection, testing, and thorough radon removal through the use of special equipment that finds and taps into pockets of the gas and removes it directly through the soil.
Be sure to work with a specialist you trust. Radon is a gas undetectable to human senses and requires proper insulation to keep out of a home after the proper measures have been taken to remove the danger as best as possible.
