I’m so pleased with our radon numbers. According to the EPA, the action number is 4. If numbers go above 4, there needs to be some kind of remediation system installed. The WHO says the action number is 2. I’m pretty hopeful we can keep our numbers below 2. I think our numbers have gone above 1 . . maybe to 1.27, once since we’ve had our updated system installed in mid-January.
I say our “numbers” because we keep two monitors going – one in the downstairs family room and one in the downstairs bedroom because we sometimes sleep in there. It’s my favorite place to sleep but Vince doesn’t like it. I like no light and I would say no noise except it takes so much noise to wake me that it rarely happens. Even light light from a clock on a bedside table interrupts my sleep so we have no clocks in any bedrooms. The basement bedroom is the perfect sleeping cave! Three walls are thick concrete with no windows. The one wall that isn’t concrete is the wall between the bathroom and the bedroom so there is absolutely no noise and no light in that bedroom but, since it’s totally below ground level, we monitor the radon level in that room too.
One day last week, the level in the family room was 0.00. I had never seen that and wondered if the monitor was working but after a while, the number increased.
Last night when we started to go to bed, this is the number in the basement bedroom – 0.02. Can’t expect much better than that!
Laura says
We live in a very quiet neighborhood on the edge of town – nothing but fields beyond us. Like you, I have to have it quiet to sleep. Don’t know if I could sleep in a basement with no windows because my claustrophobia might kick in. Sounds restful, though!
judy.blog@gmail.com says
If I open the bedroom door and take three or four steps, I’m into the family room and it has two big windows so it’s not like I’m far from a way to escape if I needed to get out quickly. Actually, the master bedroom is on the main level but it’s on the second floor at that side of the house. I’d have to walk farther to get out unless I jumped out a window if there was an emergency. We do keep the escape ladders in the two bedrooms that have windows that are not ground level. Hoping I never have to think about that. Did it once in my life and that was enough.
Rebecca L says
-I like a dark room, also. The little green light on the smoke detector is about the brightest I see. I don’t understand people who want a light on. Of course, you could say it gets dark when you close your eyes. Who knows? (Well, there are people who study sleep, and they say dark is best).