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UER Forum > Archived UE Tutorials, Lessons, and Useful Info > Radon Mitigation (Viewed 246 times) SnArF   |  Radon Mitigation < on 8/20/2004 1:00 AM >   Hey, this is a really big problem in Colorado. Radon comes up from the ground and builds up in the basement. It can kill you in seconds and is very radioactive. My house actually has a Radon pump to mitigate it, so I was wondering, anyone heard or experienced a first hand account of this stuff? Its a pretty bad issue. Just wondering. -SnArF tick  Location: Abingdon, VA Gender: Male  |  |  |  Re: Radon Mitigation <Reply # 1 on 8/20/2004 1:56 AM >   Posted by SnArF It can kill you in seconds Ummm... you sure about that? I know that prolonged exposure to radon can cause lung cancer, but I haven't heard anything about it causing instadeath. I've heard of radon being a threat in caves, so it would presumably be a problem in tunnels or drains too. http://www.epa.gov/radon/ SnArF   |  Re: Radon Mitigation <Reply # 2 on 8/21/2004 5:00 AM >   Thanks, I'll definitly check that out -SnArF F8l error  Location: SLC Gender: Male  |  Re: Radon Mitigation <Reply # 3 on 8/21/2004 6:56 AM >   Posted by SnArF It can kill you in seconds and is very radioactive. You're an idiot. IIVQ  Location: La Sud-Est du cité majeur du North-Holland (Bijlmer), .NL Gender: Male Back in Urbex!  |  |  |  |  Re: Radon Mitigation <Reply # 4 on 8/21/2004 11:49 AM >   Posted by F8l error You're an idiot. Basically, yes. Radon can kill you! ... well if you live in an ill-ventilated, new house for all your life, then maybe you'll live a few weeks shorter. It can cause cancer indeed. But somewhere in the same ratio as pilots can have cancer from being exposed to more space radiation. - Radon mainly comes out of new building materials, and is virtually unexistant in buildings older than 20 years. But indeed, radon will also come out of natural caves. - Radon is very radioactive and it can kill you in seconds - but even the total amount of radon found in your house, collected, filtered, compressed and applied to you all at once will not kill you - about one thousanth of that amount, applied over 20 years ... will not kill you. To gain access to amounts of radon that can kill you will assure you know well enough what you're doing *not* to get you killed. - Radon *does* pose a health risk as it degrades your general health risk, but the cure is as simple as a little ventilation. This is what I remember from science class. I haven't watched the tape. I wouldn't worry about radon gas if I were you. By the way, a respirator won't help. Tijmen Posted by MapMan | 18/9/2005 19:25 | Hedy Lamarr made porn? Posted by turbozutek | 20/9/2005 2:29 | Dude, educate us! IIVQ  Location: La Sud-Est du cité majeur du North-Holland (Bijlmer), .NL Gender: Male Back in Urbex!  |  |  |  |  Re: Radon Mitigation <Reply # 5 on 8/21/2004 11:53 AM >   Posted by F8l error You're an idiot. Especially for the radon pump part. A small basement window will do the same - at far lower initial, and nonexistent operating costs. Tijmen Posted by MapMan | 18/9/2005 19:25 | Hedy Lamarr made porn? Posted by turbozutek | 20/9/2005 2:29 | Dude, educate us! SnArF   |  Re: Radon Mitigation <Reply # 6 on 8/22/2004 6:38 AM >   Post by F8l error You're an idiot. Wow, thats really mature. So is alot of other things but you dont hear it from me. Anyway, yeah. Its actually a building code regulation in the suburb I live in to have a radon Mitigation system. Its a building code thing but I'm not sure about commercial buildings. So we really didn't have much of a choice to build it or not, thats why I was curious. -SnArF EDIT: Phrase [last edit 8/23/2004 4:28 AM by SnArF - edited 2 times] Mark  Very Noble Donor Location: South Carolina Gender: Male What is a lion, king of the savannah, when hes at the south pole?  |  Re: Radon Mitigation <Reply # 7 on 8/22/2004 7:12 AM >   I seem to recall radon issues in basments from ground seepege? That still a issue? "If the threat level goes up its probably because of me." "I am looking for a girl who enjoys headbutting beltbuckles" kc  Noble Donor Location: Pueblo, Colorado Gender: Male "yah, im hangin the drywall at the new Mc. Donalds"  |  |  Re: Radon Mitigation <Reply # 8 on 8/22/2004 7:39 AM >   Posted by SnArF Wow, thats really mature. So is "eat shit and kill yourself" but you dont hear it from me. Anyway, yeah. Its actually a building code regulation in the suburb I live in to have a radon Mitigation system. Its a building code thing but I'm not sure about commercial buildings. So we really didn't have much of a choice to build it or not, thats why I was curious. -SnArF oh how i love this, you manage somehow to allows be a moron here...anyway. killing you in seconds, where did you come up with that? im really curious. Doing a job RIGHT the first time gets the job done. Doing the job WRONG fourteen times gives you job security. MacGyver  Location: St Paul, Minnesota Gender: Male "Someone go find me a paperclip, a D-cell battery, and a cheese grater"  |  Re: Radon Mitigation <Reply # 9 on 8/22/2004 7:42 PM >   I'm not familiar with Radon coming from new building materials, but I do know for a fact that radon gas seeps into basements. The house I live in is built on top of a hill. Radon rises in the ground and sort of flows underneath the outermost skin of the ground, collecting in high points. All the cracks in the floor of my unfinished basement are caulked shut and the floor sump is sealed with vinyl tape. Is it overkill? maybe. Do I have to worry about radon venting into my basement? nope. I can imagine radon could be a factor underground, but I don't imagine it is anything to worry about unless the conditions are really extreme. There are far more vital things to be concerned with anyways, like oxygen and carbon monoxide... Like a fiend with his dope / a drunkard his wine / a man will have lust for the lure of the mine "If you are not part of the solution, you are not dissolved in the solvent." UER Forum > Archived UE Tutorials, Lessons, and Useful Info > Radon Mitigation (Viewed 246 times) All content and images copyright © 2002-2024 UER.CA and respective creators. Graphical Design by Crossfire. 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