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Radon Testing in Lincoln

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Lincoln · Tama County

Radon Testing in Lincoln

Radon Testing in Lincoln, Tama County, by Closer Look Inspectors. Lincoln is a tiny Tama County town renamed from Berlin in 1918.

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 Lincoln.

Lincoln housing runs to early-1900s frame houses, a very small stock in a town of barely a hundred people, across the few blocks that make up the town and the Tama County farm ground immediately around it, on Iowan Surface ground near the Tama and Benton county line, gently rolling with long slopes — and that mix shapes what a radon testing here needs to find.

Local conditions in Lincoln

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 a Lincoln home. Lincoln sits in Tama 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 Lincoln-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.
Is it worth paying for an inspection on a small house in Lincoln?
Yes, and for a reason specific to stock this old and this small. Lincoln was called Berlin until June 12, 1918, when it was renamed as a wartime patriotic gesture, and the housing that stands here mostly predates or dates from that period. In a hundred-year-old house the serious work is concentrated in four systems — the electrical service and branch wiring, the supply and drain plumbing, the heating equipment and its venting, and the foundation and sill — and any one of them can be a major undertaking on a small house. Those are exactly what we date and document.
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