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Radon Testing · Ogden, IA

Radon Testing in Ogden

Radon Testing in Ogden, IA by Closer Look Inspectors. A photo-mapped digital report within 24 hours.

Ogden · Boone County

Radon Testing in Ogden

Radon Testing in Ogden, Boone County, by Closer Look Inspectors. Ogden is a small Lincoln Highway farm town of early-1900s and postwar homes west of Boone.

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 Ogden.

Ogden housing runs to early-1900s and postwar farm-town homes, across the town core, on flat lobe till west of the Des Moines River valley — and that mix shapes what a radon testing here needs to find.

Local conditions in Ogden

Ogden 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. Ogden sits in Boone 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 Ogden-area homes face.

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 Ogden?
Yes — Boone County is in range. The stock splits between century homes needing the full systems-by-age read and postwar houses at second-replacement age for roofs and mechanicals.
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