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Radon Testing · Jolley, IA

Radon Testing in Jolley

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Jolley · Calhoun County

Radon Testing in Jolley

Radon Testing in Jolley, Calhoun County, by Closer Look Inspectors. Jolley is a tiny Calhoun County village on the southwestern rim of the buried Manson crater.

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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Local housing

Homes in Jolley.

Jolley housing runs to a handful of older homes from a village that once held 266 people, across the village core, on flat Des Moines Lobe till on the southwestern rim of the buried Manson crater — and that mix shapes what a radon testing here needs to find.

Local conditions in Jolley

Jolley sits on Des Moines Lobe till — heavy, poorly drained clay that holds water against foundations and moves with moisture, which is what drives basement seepage and foundation cracking across central Iowa. Jolley sits in Calhoun 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 that Jolley-area homes face.

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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.
Do you cover Jolley?
Yes — Jolley is inside our Fort Dodge coverage, served from Buffalo Center. Its few remaining homes are old, so the inspection is the full systems-by-age read plus foundations and grading on slow-draining till. Calhoun County is Radon Zone 1, so a 48-hour test is recommended.
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