Chickamauga sits in Walker County, Georgia, a short drive south of Chattanooga across the state line. We are a Chattanooga company, and we serve Chickamauga homeowners from here. We do not have an office in town, so the first step is a phone call, and we schedule the visit from there.
Radon is a gas that comes out of the ground and can move into a house through the slab, the crawl space, cracks in the foundation and gaps around pipes. It is not something you can see or smell. The only way to know what is inside your house is to measure it. The EPA recommends fixing a home when the long term level is 4 picocuries per liter or higher, and many people choose to look at levels lower than that. Whether your neighbor's house tested high tells you little about yours, because two houses on the same street can read very differently.
The part of Georgia around Chickamauga is not far from the ridges and valleys that stretch up into Tennessee, and we test homes across this region. We will not tell you a number before we have measured your house.
You are buying a house in town or out in the county. A radon test is often done during the inspection period of a sale, and the clock is short. Tell us your dates when you call and we will say whether we can fit them. If the result comes back at or above 4, the next steps are to confirm it and talk with the seller about a system.
You are selling. Testing before you list lets you see a number first rather than being surprised by one. If it is high, you can install a system on your schedule, and a house with a working system and a written post-installation test is easier to talk about than one with an open question.
Your kids sleep in the basement or you finished it. Many Walker County houses have a basement, a partial basement or a crawl space, and people spend more of their time in them than they used to. If you have never tested, now is a good time.
You tested with a hardware store kit and the number bothered you. Short kit results move around with weather and house closure. We can retest with a calibrated monitor and a written result.
The usual fix is a mitigation system that pulls radon from under the house and sends it outside above the roofline or along an exterior wall. For a house on a slab or with a basement, a pipe goes through the slab to the soil below and a fan carries the gas out. For a house over a crawl space, we normally lay a sealed plastic sheet over the ground and draw air from beneath it. Which one fits depends on what we find when we look. You can read more on our radon mitigation systems page.
After the system is in, we test again so you have a number showing that it works.
Our cost guide explains what moves the price, and radon levels in our region explains how to read a result.
Call (423) 529-4385 with the address area, the type of foundation and what is driving your timing. See also our radon testing page, and the page for Lookout Mountain, GA if you are closer to that side of the county.
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