Central Ohio Radon Testing
Real Estate Radon Tests, Homeowner Radon Tests
Radon Done is a family safety company providing real estate radon testing services in Columbus, Ohio, and surrounding communities.
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Testing is the only way to know if you or your family are at risk from radon.
The EPA recommends that every home be tested for radon. Any home can have elevated radon levels, and even homes next to each other can have different levels of indoor radon due to construction and geographic differences.
Radon Done is proud to offer radon tests for both home buyers and sellers, as well as anyone who wants to know the radon concentrations within their current home. Any home can have a radon problem—new homes, old homes, well-sealed and drafty homes, and homes without basements. You cannot predict radon levels inside a house based on state, local, or neighborhood radon measurements. Choose a radon test option below.
Real Estate Radon Testing
Radon testing when buying, or before selling your home.
You should know what the indoor radon level is in any home you consider buying. If you are planning a home inspection, you should include a radon test as well.
A short-term radon test is only $150, and you can schedule it with your other home inspections. The radon test is 48 hours in duration and results are provided by email almost immediately after the test is completed. Testing for radon when buying a home is an opportunity to request the seller to cover radon mitigation before moving in.
Homeowner Radon Testing
Test your home for radon.
Radon is the second leading cause of lung cancer after smoking. Any home can have elevated radon levels, and even homes next to each other can have different levels of indoor radon due to construction and geographic differences.
Every home should be tested, old or new, and even if it already has a radon remediation system in place. Changes to your home such as additions, remodeling, or even new siding or roof can change the level of radon inside your home.
Radon Awareness
Invite us to your office to share information with your team about radon.
Radon gas and testing inspections can be confusing. Radon Done provides free awareness presentations for real estate agents and home inspectors—-we want you to have the best information about radon, Ohio radon rules, and the EPA’s recommendation that every home be tested.
Let us bring your office some donuts, and share a 30-minute presentation with information about the dangers of radon, how we test, and common mitigation techniques.
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Radon Done performed a radon test for my house. The technician put a machine in my basement and picked it up after 48 hours. Super nice, professional and answered all my questions.
Radon gas in Ohio
Central Ohio has relatively high natural concentrations of uranium from glacial deposits and shale, which during radioactive decay, produces radium and radon.
The EPA’s current radon action level is four picocuries of radon per liter of air (4 pCi/L). Most counties in central Ohio have high potential for radon, with predicted average indoor greater than the EPA action level. According to one study cited by Ohio Department of Natural Resources Department of Geological Survey, 38% of Ohio’s 88 counties had average indoor radon levels above 4.0 pCi/L, but Licking County’s average was above 8.0 pCi/L. Seven Ohio counties—Carroll, Fairfield, Franklin, Harrison, Knox, Pickaway, and Ross—had average indoor Radon concentrations between 6 and 8 pCi/L.
What is radon and where does it come from?
Radon is a natural form of radiation that can cause serious health problems and is often found in igneous rock and soil. An odorless, colorless radioactive gas; it forms from the radioactive decay of small amounts of uranium naturally present in rocks and soils.
Is there radon in my neighborhood?
Many counties in central Ohio have average indoor radon levels greater tahn the EPA action level of 4.0 pCi/L. Averages recorded in Franklin county are 6.0 to 8.0 pCi/L, and Licking county is over 8.0 pCi/L.
Any home can have elevated radon levels, and even homes next to each other can have different levels of indoor radon due to construction and geographic difference. Every home should be tested, old or new, and even if it already has a radon remediation system in place.
Radon Information
What are radon levels in Franklin county, Ohio?
Central Ohio has high radon potential according to the EPA. Average radon levels recorded and submitted to the Ohio Department of Health range from 2 to 4 Pci/L (picoCuries per liter), shown in light blue in the graphic below, to ZIP Codes with averages over 10 Pci/L, shown in red in below.
Although there is no safe level of radon exposure, the EPA Action Level for indoor radon is 4.0 Pci/L. The first step to understanding the radon level inside your own home is to test–this is something you can include with your home inspections when buying a home, or anytime for your current home. Even if you already have a radon mitigation system, the EPA recommends that you test your home every two years–many changes to your home can change the amount of radon trapped inside the living area, including new windows, siding, or roof.
What is radon gas?
Radon is an odorless, colorless, tasteless, radioactive gas. Radon comes from the decay of radioactive uranium that can be found in small amounts in rocks and soil throughout nature. In areas with disturbed earth, and loose fill, like when a home is built, radon escapes from the soil.
Radon gas exposure is the number one cause of cancer for non-smokers, even greater than second-hand smoke. Most people are exposed to radon gas inside their own homes, and this is their greatest exposure to natural ionizing radiation.
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Radon gas in Ohio
Central Ohio has relatively high natural concentrations of uranium from glacial deposits and shale, which during radioactive decay, produces radium and radon.
The EPA’s current radon action level is four picocuries of radon per liter of air (4 pCi/L). Most counties in central Ohio have high potential for radon, with predicted average indoor greater than the EPA action level. According to one study cited by Ohio Department of Natural Resources Department of Geological Survey, 38% of Ohio’s 88 counties had average indoor radon levels above 4.0 pCi/L, but Licking County’s average was above 8.0 pCi/L. Seven Ohio counties—Carroll, Fairfield, Franklin, Harrison, Knox, Pickaway, and Ross—had average indoor Radon concentrations between 6 and 8 pCi/L.