Professional Radon Mitigation & System Installation
Radon is a colorless, odorless gas that can pose serious health risks if present in high levels. Our professional radon mitigation services help reduce radon levels in your home or business, ensuring a safe indoor environment. Protect your health—contact us today for expert radon mitigation solutions.
Why Should you Test your Home for Radon?
The Minnesota Department of Health advises homeowners to test for radon. Here’s why you should consider doing so:
- Radon is colorless, odorless, tasteless, and radioactive.
- Exposure to high levels of radon can increase the risk of lung cancer.
- 40% of Minnesota homes have elevated radon levels.
- The average radon level in Minnesota is 4.5 pCi/L, which is three times the national average of 1.3.
- Radon levels can be reduced in your home.
Contact Bauer Restoration today to schedule a radon test or to have a licensed technician assess and install a radon mitigation system. Reducing radon levels in your home is just a call away!
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What is Radon Mitigation?
Radon mitigation is the process of reducing radon gas levels in your home. At Bauer Restoration, we use specialized equipment to test for elevated radon levels. If your home has high radon levels, our EPA-certified technicians can install a system to bring them down. Radon is a radioactive gas produced by the natural breakdown of uranium in the soil. While small amounts are present in the air we breathe daily, the issue arises when radon gas enters and gets trapped in your home. Prolonged exposure to high radon levels can lead to lung cancer. The EPA recommends installing a radon mitigation system if levels are 4 picoCuries per liter (pCi/L) or higher.
How it Works
How Does Radon Enter Your Home?
- Soil is the main source of radon entering your home.
- Radon enters your home several different ways. This can include cracks in concrete slabs, cracks in wall joints, open sump pump baskets and crawl spaces.
- Differences in air pressure in the home and the soil can pull radon in through the different pathways.
Why Use Us for Your Radon Removal?
Bauer Restoration for your Radon Testing, Mitigation and Removal
- Over 18 Years of Experience & 2,000+ Successful Projects
- Licensed by the Minnesota Department of Health
- EPA Approved Testing and Mitigation Procedures
- Advanced 48-hour Testing with Hourly Reports
Call Bauer Restoration for help at 507-333-9838.
Are radon levels in your home affected by the weather?
Certain weather events can alter radon levels in your home. Changing weather events such as rain, wind and cold weather can cause radon levels to rise or fall. With the change of pressure associated with different weather events, the way radon enters your home can fluctuate.
A weather event such as a rainstorm will lower the air pressure around your home allowing radon to enter through the soil much easier. Radon needs to find a way to escape and saturated soil from heavy rains makes it hard for radon to escape making your home the primary escape route.
High winds can create a vacuum around your home by decreasing the pressure around it. In most cases, in a high wind event, radon levels within your home can increase.
During the winter, as temperatures begin to fall, turning on the heat can cause radon levels to increase. Air being brought in to heat your home can be taken from the soil introducing radon to your home. Typically, radon levels within a home are higher during the winter because it doesn’t have an escape route; open windows, etc.
Installing a radon mitigation system can help keep radon levels down during such weather events. Give Bauer Restoration a call today to schedule and estimate.