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Radon Testing · Anthon, IA

Radon Testing in Anthon

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Anthon · Woodbury County

Radon Testing in Anthon

Radon Testing in Anthon, Woodbury County, by Closer Look Inspectors. Anthon is a Woodbury County rail town founded in 1888 near the Little Sioux River, and we calibrate every visit to that.

Radon testing places an EPA-protocol continuous monitor on a home's lowest livable level to measure radon gas — and it matters across Iowa, where Iowa HHS reports 71.6 percent of homes above the action level — the largest percentage of any state.

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Anthon housing runs to houses from the years after the 1888 founding through the 1920s, with a good share of mid-century ranches and newer builds on the edges, across the original grid near the rail corridor, the school area, and the farm ground and acreages around the city, on loess-mantled uplands beside the Little Sioux River valley in the Northwest Iowa Plains — and that mix shapes what a radon testing here needs to find. Instrument-grade tools, a local eye, every visit.

Local conditions in Anthon

No Iowa law requires a home inspection before a sale — the one mandatory time-of-transfer inspection covers private septic systems (Iowa Code 455B.172) — which makes an independent inspection the only thorough, buyer-side read on an Anthon home. Anthon sits in Woodbury County, and every Iowa county is EPA Radon Zone 1. Iowa HHS reports Iowa has the largest percentage of homes above the 4.0 pCi/L action level of any state — 71.6 percent in the Iowa Radon Survey — and the Iowa seller disclosure form asks for any known radon test results. Finished basements concentrate it, and only a 48-hour test gives you this home's number. Iowa leaves frost depth to the local building code rather than one statewide number, and the annual freeze-thaw cycle drives the settlement cracks and ice-dam wear we calibrate every Anthon visit to find.

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Questions

Common questions.

Is radon really a concern in Iowa?
Yes. The Iowa Department of Natural Resources reports that more than two in five Iowa homes have radon levels that pose a significant health risk, and finished basements are where it concentrates.
How long does the test run?
A 48-hour minimum under closed-house conditions; the result is delivered with your inspection report.
How does the Little Sioux River affect a house purchase in Anthon?
Anthon sits near the Little Sioux River, and the Woodbury County flood insurance study covers the river and its tributaries, so we check the flood map status of a lot before anything else. In a town founded in 1888 as a rail stop on the Iowa plains, many houses are old enough to have basements that seep after heavy rain and foundations that have shifted in silty loess soil. We look at grading, downspouts, cracks, efflorescence and sump discharge, and we check whether the furnace and water heater sit low enough to be at risk if water comes in.
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