Reports within 24 hours · Get your free instant quote
Certified Master Inspector sealCloser Look InspectorsStatewide Minnesota & IowaFree Instant Quote
Radon Testing · Westside, IA

Radon Testing in Westside

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

Get Your Free Instant QuoteSee What's Included
Westside · Crawford County

Radon Testing in Westside

Radon Testing in Westside, Crawford County, by Closer Look Inspectors. Westside is a small Crawford County town laid out in 1872 just west of the Mississippi-Missouri divide.

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.

Westside is served by our Ida Grove team →  ·  (563) 517-7815

Craftsman bungalow with a covered front porch and stone columns — Radon Testing in Westside, IAWestside
Local housing

Homes in Westside.

Westside housing runs to houses from the 1870s laying-out of the town through the early 1900s, with postwar homes and a handful of newer builds among them, across the town grid laid out in 1872 and the farm ground and acreages around it, on loess-capped uplands of the Southern Iowa Drift Plain along the Mississippi-Missouri divide — and that mix shapes what a radon testing here needs to find.

Local conditions in Westside

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 Westside home. Westside sits in Crawford 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 Westside-area homes face.

Home inspection in Westside →  ·  More about radon testing →

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.
Does Westside sitting on the Mississippi-Missouri divide matter for a house?
A little, mostly in how water leaves the lot. Westside was named for its position just west of the divide between the two big watersheds, so it sits on high ground rather than in a river bottom. That helps flood risk, but the loess-mantled ridges still shed water fast and can shrink and swell with the seasons. Grading, downspout discharge, foundation cracking and window wells are the things to watch. With 285 residents in 2020, many homes are older and some run on private wells and septic systems, which we can check along with the wiring, plumbing and roof.
Keep looking

More across Iowa.

Radon Testing nearby

Other inspections in Westside

Questions about radon testing

In-depth guides

Free instant quote

Build your quote in 30 seconds.

No phone tag, no callback delay. Price and book your inspection right here — it takes about 30 seconds and there is no obligation.

Free Instant Quote & SchedulerPowered by InspectorData
Free Instant Quote