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Radon Testing · Mitchellville, IA

Radon Testing in Mitchellville

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Mitchellville · Polk County

Radon Testing in Mitchellville

Radon Testing in Mitchellville, Polk County, by Closer Look Inspectors. Mitchellville is a small east-Polk rail town of older homes now drawing metro-commuter growth.

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 Mitchellville.

Mitchellville housing runs to older rail-town homes with commuter additions arriving, across the original core and the newer east-metro edges, on flat lobe till east of Altoona — and that mix shapes what a radon testing here needs to find.

Local conditions in Mitchellville

Mitchellville 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. Mitchellville sits in Polk 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 Mitchellville-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 Mitchellville?
Yes — eastern Polk County is fully in range. The older rail-town stock gets services, roofs and foundations dated precisely, and the arriving commuter builds get grading verification on flat, slow-draining till that was tiled farm ground a few years ago.
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