Unpopular opinion: I regret skipping the radon test on my first house

Closed on a cute little 3-bedroom in Denver last July and everything seemed fine. Fast forward to January and my buddy who's a home inspector brought a radon tester over for fun. The reading came back at 7.1 pCi/L, way over the safe limit. Now I'm stuck figuring out a mitigation system that's gonna cost me around $1,200. Has anyone else dealt with finding out about radon after the purchase and how did you handle the cost?

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linda62624d agoOG Member

Heard a story from my friend Jen who bought a place in Boulder and didn't test for radon either. Six months later her toddler was sleeping in the basement playroom and she got a free test kit from the library just out of curiosity. It came back at 9.2 and she freaked out, called three mitigation companies and the cheapest quote was fifteen hundred. She ended up putting it on a credit card with zero interest for twelve months and told me she wished she'd just spent the fifty bucks upfront.

elliot_king24d ago

Yeah, I tested my place as soon as I moved in and it was way less stressful than dealing with that later.