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Radon Testing · Unionville, IA

Radon Testing in Unionville

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Unionville · Appanoose County

Radon Testing in Unionville

Radon Testing in Unionville, Appanoose County, by Closer Look Inspectors. Unionville is the oldest settlement site in Appanoose County, now a handful of older homes.

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 Unionville.

Unionville housing runs to a small number of older frame homes on one of Appanoose County's earliest settlement sites, across the few blocks of the village and the surrounding Appanoose County farm ground, on deeply dissected loess-over-till ground on the Southern Iowa Drift Plain in old mining country — and that mix shapes what a radon testing here needs to find.

Local conditions in Unionville

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 an Unionville home. Unionville sits in Appanoose 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 Unionville-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.
Unionville claims the county's oldest settlement — does age like that show in the houses?
Not usually in the way people expect. First settlers arrived around 1843 and the town was surveyed in 1848, but Unionville did not incorporate until 1922, and almost nothing standing is that old. What the long history does produce is layers under the ground: abandoned cisterns, old privy pits, filled foundations and buried fuel tanks that turn up on lots that have been occupied a long time. What is visible tells part of the story, and anything beyond that is where a further look is warranted. Appanoose County is EPA Radon Zone 1.
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