Georgia Radon Defense Q&A

Modern radon mitigation systems are designed to be quiet, ensuring minimal noise disturbance in your home.

Every home, regardless of its foundation type, has the potential for elevated radon levels. The only way to know the radon level in a particular home is to test. In homes with multiple foundation types, you may need to do multiple tests. For example, in a split-level home with a basement next to a crawlspace, you should test in the basement and in the level above the crawlspace.

Radon comes from uranium, but it is more directly produced by radium in the soil. Radon is the only element in the uranium decay series in the gas phase. It is inert, so it will not react with or stick to anything. It has a half-life of 3.8 days, which gives it time to be sucked into your home. After that, it decays into polonium. Polonium causes lung cancer when it decays in your lungs. Polonium is not inert and sticks to airborne particles that you may inhale or directly to your lung tissue.