El Paso County · ZIP 80911

Radon mitigation quotes in Security-Widefield

Security-Widefield is a large unincorporated community south of Colorado Springs, built out substantially in the post-war decades to house employment at the installations nearby, and it remains one of the metro’s biggest concentrations of mid-century tract housing.

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Security-Widefield and El Paso County

Security-Widefield routes through our El Paso County territory alongside Colorado Springs, Fountain, and Falcon. EPA places El Paso County in Zone 1, its highest predicted category, and Colorado’s state radon program reports that a majority of homes tested statewide come back at or above the action level. Because the community is unincorporated, county rather than city offices handle any permit question.

If the result surfaced in a transaction

Colorado requires sellers to provide a radon warning statement and the state radon brochure before a sale; nothing requires testing or mitigation, and the remedy is negotiated. Military relocations move a large share of this market on short timelines, so an inspection-period measurement has to be ordered early enough to land inside the window.

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The housing you’re mitigating

The dominant pattern is single-storey and split-level tract construction on crawl spaces and partial or full basements, built at a time when sub-slab material and sealing practice varied considerably from block to block. Later infill and replacement housing is conventional poured-basement work. On a split-level, ask specifically which floor the measurement was taken on.

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Security-Widefield questions, answered straight

Ours is a split-level. Which floor should be measured?

The lowest level you occupy, or reasonably could. A split-level makes that ambiguous in a way a conventional two-storey does not, so it is worth agreeing with whoever places the device where it is going and writing that down — a result is only comparable with another result taken at the same level.

The house sits over a crawl space. Does that change the system?

It changes the method. Where there is exposed earth, the usual approach lays a sealed membrane so suction can be applied beneath it. Ask how the membrane is fixed at the perimeter and at any piers, because that is where a membrane most often stops doing its job.

Colorado has no state licence. What do I check instead?

National certification through NRPP or NRSB, which the state radon program points homeowners towards. Ask which one, confirm it is current, then judge the written design, the warranty terms, and whether a post-work verification test is included in the price.

We are on a PCS timeline. Is that workable?

Often, but it depends on scheduling rather than on anything about the house. Tell each contractor the date you are working towards and ask directly whether the measurement and any subsequent work fit inside it, rather than assuming they will.

How much does the fan cost to run?

It runs continuously, so it is a standing electricity cost rather than an occasional one. Ask each contractor which fan they propose and what it draws; that figure and your own tariff give you a real number, whereas any estimate given here would be invented.

Sources

U.S. EPA — Radon
U.S. EPA — A Citizen’s Guide to Radon
U.S. EPA — Consumer’s Guide to Radon Reduction
U.S. EPA — EPA Map of Radon Zones

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