Radon Testing in Dublin & Powell, Ohio
Real Estate Radon Tests, Homeowner Radon Tests
Any home can have high radon, the only way to know is to test. Include a radon test with your home inspection for any house you consider buying.
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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.
Buckeye Radon 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. Buckeye Radon 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.
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 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.
How does radon get into my home?
Radon is odorless, colorless, and tasteless; it is an inert noble gas. Radon is a naturally-occurring, carcinogenic, radioactive gas produced by the decay of radium in the soil. Radon gas exposure is the greatest single source of natural, ionizing, background radiation, only surpassed by medical radiation.