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What are the most common ways that radon gas can enters a home?


The most common ways that radon can enter a home are: cracks in solid floors, construction joints, cracks in walls, gaps in suspended floors, gaps around service pipes, wall cavities, and the house's water supply.
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Updated: 02/22/2016
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Answer: Radon typically enters a building from soil gases through the foundation. However, in some cases, radon is present in water from wells, which can disperse into the air. Further, radon can emanate from certain building materials, so even though the primary entry mechanism is from soil gas migration through the foundation and is typically concentrated at the lowest level, emanation can be present from building materials even in high rise buildings.
Full Spectrum Imaging & Inspections, LLC
Answer: When radioactive rocks and soil break down, they release radon gas. That gas can enter buildings through: - Construction joints. - Cracks in walls or floors. - Gaps in foundations. - Openings near pipes or wires. Less commonly and in smaller amounts, radon can be released from: - Building materials made from natural substances, such as concrete, wallboard and granite countertops. - Water, especially water that comes from underground wells.
Monarch Radon Testing
Answer: Voids and openings in basement floors and walls as well as open (uncovered) sump pits.
WIN Home Inspection
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Answer: cracks in the floor, sump pump pits, thin concrete slabs
Minnesota Mold Inspection, LLC
Answer: Open cracks in the Slab such as the sump pit
Property Inspection Pros
Answer: Through the gaps and cracks in a foundation
SAFE AT HOME ENVIRONMENTAL
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Answer: The soils below the structure. If the structure has a concrete slab, the gas enters through any voids. If the structure if over a crawlspace, the gas enters through any voids in the vapor barrier.
Worsley Inspections LLC
Answer: cracks in basement flooring.
Alabama indoor air quality testing, LLC.
Answer: Concrete floor, dirt floor, cracks in the concrete floor, areas where the floor meets the walls and through the sump crock.
Honest Home Inspections & Milwaukee Mold Inspector
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Answer: The gas enters through any crack, hole sump area, crawl space, etc.
Four County Home Inspection Service, LLC
Answer: Radon enters a home through areas of low pressure. It can enter your home through cracks in a foundation , sump pits and through your water supply.
Norton Inspection Services
Answer: Foundations cracks, Open drainage (sump pump pit), water proofing systems, dirt crawl spaces, ground water
Medical Mold Relief LLC
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Answer: The most common ways radon gas enters a home is through openings in a home, cracks in the floor and walls.
Corley Home Inspections, LLC
Answer: Thru cracks in the foundation , sump pumps ,sewer lines.
ATM Home Inspection
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