there are a lot of things to consider
when buying a house outside of an urban
area our obstacle now is the well when
we test the home that's in a rural
environment like this and it tests high
for radon 100% of the time there is
radon in the water once we determine
that there there is a high level of
radon in the well water we have a system
called
air well and this system sucks the water
up from the bottom of the well and the
water is effectively aerated releasing
all the radon outside the house where
there's no harm radon is the number one
cause of lung cancer for non-smokers now
that we know it's harmful we need to
make sure that we mitigate this problem
you're saying we can have radon gases in
the water in this home because there's a
well absolutely there's lots of studies
taking place looking at the incidence of
colon cancer and stomach cancer from the
ingestion of radon contaminated water
when we turn on our top we're aerating
the water and that releases the radon
back into a gas form into the house when
I'm showering when I'm running water yes
that is nuts I didn't even know radon
could be in my water it's well water
it's coming from the ground why can't it
be in the water hell yeah it can so
we're gonna test the water get the radon
level in the water and then it will
decide together whether we put the air
well in since the well is drawing from a
similar area of bedrock we were pretty
much just safe to install that foam
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we're gonna talk about the furnace room
for a minute I think for this house we
use this device here it's called a rat
oh stop so what this does is it senses
the indoor air quality 24/7 so it's an
active system the day we install it when
it Peaks at 150 batgirls turns on
mitigate Serato so even if the
homeowners turned off the control
upstairs this will turn on the HRV on
high speed and initiate an air change
that rids the house and radon in that
fashion so I think with this device we'd
expect to see levels that would average
out somewhere around 50 to 60 every
single home should have one of these
little gadgets that goes into the wall
that tells the HRV to turn up to 100
percent because it senses radar so you
can be comfortable safe for you and your
kids