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Radon Gas Inspection
My job as your professional home inspector is to alert you, to the greatest extent possible, to unknown problems and potential environmental hazards in your current or potential home. Colorado’s mountains with all of their beauty can also cause high levels of radon. Mountain High Inspections can provide you with a Radon Gas test that only requires a minimum of 48 hours to complete that works well with your real estate inspection.  Radon is a radioactive gaseous element produced in the disintegration of radium, a radioactive metallic element. It cannot be detected by the senses and can be confirmed only by sophisticated instruments and/or laboratory tests. The gas enters a house through pores and cracks in the concrete or through floorboards of poorly ventilated crawlspaces, especially when wet ground allows the gas to escape easily through the soil and disperse in the atmosphere. Radon is a lung carcinogen: the National Academy of Sciences estimates radon causes some 15,000 to 22,000 lung cancer deaths annually. The U.S. Surgeon General and the EPA recommend all houses be tested for radon. Houses with high radon levels can be fixed.
Excerpts from U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, “Indoor Radon”. For FAQ about radon, click here!
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