Why do people pay $30 for a 1 time use test kit when you can get a meter for like $80? You really need a long term test to get an idea of the health implications of living in your house. Radon levels can triple with the season and weather.

@JustinCia

3 ай бұрын

Exactly, does anyone recommend a specific brand and model of reusable meter and why?

I’m interested in this, as I’m buying a old house that has tested at 4.1 However, I find it difficult to believe that if Radon is everywhere, in the whole ground beneath my house, how on earth does simply sticking a 5” pipe into the ground with a little fan sucking on it, remove all the radon throughout the ground beneath my home? Can you imagine how strong that suction would need to be to suck a gas through solid/semi solid soil and mud etc? I am highly suspicious that there is a ‘big sell’ going on here. Yet another way for industry and scientists to sell us more and more plastic and fund their research positions. Then again, I grew up being told that homes should breath, they should not be air tight, and yet these days I see more and more videos where homes are being made airtight. The more experts we listen to, the less clear life becomes.

@cmdreffietrinket

2 жыл бұрын

@Tim Freeman good to know. 👍

@martinlutherkingjr.5582

6 ай бұрын

An experiment you could do is measure the radon level before installing a mitigation system and then measure it afterward to see if it’s effective. In my experience it is effective in most houses unless done improperly. You may require multiple suction points to get the radon levels down.

@calvinsc5105

4 ай бұрын

As it describes in the video, it is not only about sucking the gas out. It is about making inside of your home positive pressure so it stops sucking in the gas.

@Rick-the-Swift

2 ай бұрын

It's a scam. Just google "when did people first start getting lung cancer" and you will find that lung cancer was very rare in the early 20th century and almost non-existent be fore that. Lung cancer is simply a bi-product of the advent of industrial technology and pollution, and also a bi-product of a junk food/bad habit forming culture. However, if you enjoy living in a clean air home that is relatively radon free, don't waste your money on those scam pipes and fans under your slab- they are an absolute joke! What you want to do is either seal your slab, yes it can be done fairly easily, or if you live on a crawl space, then you'll want to put down vapor barrier in the crawl. Radon won't get in if it's sealed properly, and the little bit that does enter the house through open doors and windows is the same amount that you breath every minute of every day in the great outdoors.

I'm here because of a very close friend afflicted with this exposure.😭

Hmmm... I'm in Salem (100% red Marion County). Very well kept-up 60+ year cabin complex-with full foundations; no basements. Maybe time to test.😒

If Radon gas is odorless and colorless how did they find out about it to begin with?

@ronweasley9819

3 жыл бұрын

Probably the same way people found out about radiation itself. Periodic table exists for centuries, it's easy to predict what elements are gas and which ones can be radioactive. Predicting the Uranium decay and the elements produced by it is very easy.

Well, that's scary...

Is my ZIP code in a high radon Zone

Where is the science?

@martinlutherkingjr.5582

6 ай бұрын

In the studies on lung cancer and residential radon exposure. This is just a mainstream news piece.

@Shimmed

24 күн бұрын

Fauci says so.

There is no point trying to block radon getting into your home, it's like trying to stop air getting in if you open the front door. The weird thing about radon is that it is radioactive so i noticed it. The smartphone radiation detector gave me a 200 microtelsa reading inside & outside my house in cold weather. Maybe this explains vanishing airplanes over the Bermuda Triangle, since it's electromagnetic it might interfere with electric instruments. Like my radiation detector on my smartphone 🤷

@martinlutherkingjr.5582

6 ай бұрын

Your phone cannot test for radon

@DerekFolan

6 ай бұрын

@martinlutherkingjr.5582 The phone has a radiation detector app, I use my eyes to see the mist. Radiation isn't magic, so I checked up the Internet and actually its very common that this can happen. Radon is a heavy gas so its normally below ground but during low pressure it rises.

@martinlutherkingjr.5582

6 ай бұрын

@@DerekFolan Yes, while you might be able to see some indications of radiation from a camera, it’s not going to quantify your radon levels to give a useful picture of statically home much additional risk of lung cancer you’re gaining by being exposed to those radon levels. Just buy an actual radon meter, they’re not expensive. < $100.

@DerekFolan

6 ай бұрын

@martinlutherkingjr.5582 The phone can detect radiation ? Nobody mentioned anything about measuring exact levels ? That's impossible despite what they say. Unfortunately most of your data is based off of marketing sales pitches & corporate growth strategy . It's probably likely that people that evolved in places with high radon have a good tolerance for it. White skin for instance may have evolved to cope with the cold or maybe also Radon mists. Perhaps Black skin is less visible to certain Predators like Lions because it absorbs radiation whereas white skin would reflect heat. Who can say, but it's likely peoples evolved to adapt to their local environments