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Yep, and that's one of the reasons we don't have basements in this country.
by happymellon 4y ago
Yep, and that's one of the reasons we don't have basements in this country.
- OJFord 4y agoWell, we do, and are you implying that we have a lot of it? The map of Germany someone else shared looked at a glance 'worse', the post is from a US company that installs mitigations (is that ever done here? I've never heard of it before).
- happymellon 4y agoHouses built in the past 100 years generally don't. There is a subset of the Victorian terrace townhouses in some of the major cities that do, but the vast majority of houses do not. The water table is one reason, but radon mitigation is certainly a constraint.
- OJFord 4y agoI don't disagree with the 'vast majority' not having them, but I don't think it's S unusual as you imply either. Probably the vast majority don't have an en suite bathroom either (I don't mean to imply a complete intersection, these are two 'vast majority' circles in a Venn diagram), but the new builds have multiple. Coal cellars in particular are/were especially common.
- sliken 4y agoAnd somehow the extra 8 feet of dirt magically protects you from radon?
- happymellon 4y agoRadon is heavier than air, and completely inert. Yes. Building basements will cause radon to gather there.