Radon is the second leading cause of lung cancer, second only to smoking. It is a naturally occurring radioactive gas. You cannot see, smell or taste radon.
  The EPA states, fix your house if the radon levels are above 4 pCi/L. Salt Lake County’s average is 4.3!!

  The national indoor average is 1.3. The only way to know if you have elevated radon levels is to do a test.

  If a house has elevated levels they can be reduced to below 4. Always!
Call Advocate Inspections to have you house tested.

  We serve the Wasatch front, Salt Lake, Park City, and Utah County and northern Utah. 

  Radon gas decays into radioactive particles that can get trapped in your lungs when you breathe. As they break down further, these particles release small bursts of energy. This can damage lung tissue and lead to lung cancer over the course of your lifetime. Not everyone exposed to elevated levels of radon will develop lung cancer. And the amount of time between exposure and the onset of the disease may be many years.

  Long term radon tests are determined by using the radiation impact from radon decay onto a plastic strip. Counting the impacts or divots will yield the radon levels. There have also been studies using plastic reading glasses. If the radon radioactive decay does this to plastic, “What is it doing to your lungs?”
  Like other environmental pollutants, there is some uncertainty about the magnitude of radon health risks. However, we know more about radon risks than risks from most other cancer-causing substances. This is because estimates of radon risks are based on studies of cancer in humans (underground miners).

  Scientists are more certain about radon risks than from most other cancer-causing substances.
  Children have been reported to have greater risk than adults of certain types of cancer from radiation, but there are currently no conclusive data on whether children are at greater risk than adults from radon.
  Like other environmental pollutants, there is some uncertainty about the magnitude of radon health risks.
  However, we know more about radon risks than risks from most other cancer-causing substances. This is because estimates of radon risks are based on studies of cancer in humans (underground miners).
 

Smoking combined with radon is an especially serious health risk. Stop smoking and lower your radon level to reduce your lung cancer risk.
Scientists are more certain about radon risks than from most other cancer-causing substances.
  Your chances of getting lung cancer from radon depend mostly on:
How much radon is in your home-
The amount of time you spend in your home -
and Whether you are a smoker or have ever smoked.

 The fan can not be in or
  below livable space.
  Preferably it is in the attic.

 Schematic of typical
 radon mitigation system.
 There is penetration hole
 in the concrete floor, 20
 gallons of gravel is
 removed, the hole is
 sealed and run up
 through the garage, its
 attic and roof. The fan is
 in the attic.

 Installation with the fan
 on the outside of the
 house.