Just a note: because this state is so rich with granite (granite = linked to high radon), you are likely to find excessive amounts of radon in houses here. Almost every house in Sterling has radon that needs or needed to be abated.
If I were you, I'd look more into it either abatement or risks of radon. I'm wondering if it caused cancer in the two cats I had in Sterling, but we'll really never know. Best of luck!
Yeah... we are hoping the sellers will pay to put it in. I've looked at the maps---there is a lot of radon, something like 1 in every 15 houses--but I'm not sure if that is a national or state statistic.
Ultimately, its cheaper to put in a radon system than get lung cancer...
I think that's a state statistic because of the granite. You should see the radon map for Sterling, it includes the entire center of town! It's a big oval where all the houses have a ton of it. We had to put the cats to sleep because they both had big cancerous tumors (one cat was 18 years old had 6 huge ones about 1 inch wide on the outside of her body, and the other was 13 and only had one tumor but stopped eating. They died within two years of each other, and then we moved out.) In 2000 it would have cost $1700 to abate the house, but there were grants and other things to help offset the cost, so I don't know what it would cost now.
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Just a note: because this state is so rich with granite
(granite = linked to high radon), you are likely to find excessive amounts of radon in houses here. Almost every house in Sterling has radon that needs or needed to be abated.
If I were you, I'd look more into it either abatement or risks of radon. I'm wondering if it caused cancer in the two cats I had in Sterling, but we'll really never know. Best of luck!
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Ultimately, its cheaper to put in a radon system than get lung cancer...
... poor kitties... :-(
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