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Radon Testing in Minnetonka Beach

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Minnetonka Beach · Hennepin County

Radon Testing in Minnetonka Beach

Radon Testing in Minnetonka Beach, Hennepin County, by Closer Look Inspectors. Minnetonka Beach is a Lake Minnetonka village shaped by the 1882 Hotel Lafayette and the Lafayette Club that followed it.

Radon testing places an EPA-protocol continuous monitor on a home's lowest livable level to measure radon gas — and it matters across Minnesota, where more than two in five homes test above the action level.

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Local housing

Homes in Minnetonka Beach.

Minnetonka Beach housing runs to early-1900s and 1920s lake estates and older shoreline homes, with mid-century and newer houses built or rebuilt on the same lots, across the shoreline around the Lafayette Club, the former Hotel Lafayette grounds, and the lots along County Road 15, on the moraine shoreline of Lake Minnetonka, where more than two thirds of the city area is water — and that mix shapes what a radon testing here needs to find.

Local conditions in Minnetonka Beach

Minnetonka Beach does not run a point-of-sale housing ordinance, which makes an independent inspection the only thorough, buyer-side read on the home. Minnetonka Beach sits in Hennepin County, in EPA Radon Zone 1, and MDH reports more than two in five Minnesota homes have radon levels that pose a significant health risk. Finished basements concentrate radon, and only a 48-hour test tells you the number. Footings here must reach the 3-1/2-foot depth Minnesota Rules 1303.1600 set for the southern frost zone, and that annual freeze-thaw cycle is what drives the settlement cracks, frost heave and ice-dam wear that Minnetonka Beach-area homes face.

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Questions

Common questions.

Is radon really a concern in Minnesota?
Yes. The Minnesota Department of Health reports that more than two in five Minnesota 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.
Can you inspect a 1920s estate in Minnetonka Beach, and what is different about it?
Yes. Large older homes have many systems installed in different decades, so it helps to sort out what is original and what was updated: wiring, plumbing, heating, roofs, windows, chimneys and foundations. Because of the age, masonry, wood framing, and moisture in the basement deserve a close look. If we see something that needs a specialist, such as a chimney or a historic-material repair, we say so.
How does the Lafayette Club history bear on older houses in Minnetonka Beach?
The Manitoba railway built the Hotel Lafayette here in 1882, and after the hotel burned in 1897 part of the property became the Lafayette Club, whose current clubhouse dates from 1924 after a 1922 fire. That history explains why the village has large, older lake houses with many additions. Homes like that bring century-old framing, multiple roof layers, older knob-and-tube or mixed wiring, masonry chimneys, big porches and retaining walls, and the question of whether renovations were done well. Shoreline moisture gets a close look on every house.
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