Jeff LeBlanc

Radon actually is not the thing that hurts you.

Radon's a sexier word.

But radon, when it breaks down and goes through its disintegration, it turns back into a metal, polonium or bismuth.

They're just way harder to spell and they're not that sexy.

So we talk about radon and they're harder to test.

But those little microscopic pieces of metal, they're floating around in the air and you breathe them in, they'll tend to get lodged in your lung.

And they go through their disintegration and break down to lead, radioactive lead after that.

And if they're stuck in your lung and they disintegrate, the energy that gets shot out when the radioactive disintegration happens, if that damages your cell, that cell replicates and it's cancer.

Great questions.

There's a bunch of them there and I'll unpack them.

So what we do first is we have to measure how hard your house is sucking on the ground when we're fixing it.

So go there first, right?

You have to measure that with micromanometers and then you figure out how can I get the radon from coming into the house?

I want to get it out.

So we suck under the floor.

We're going to drill, core drill down through the floor and we're going to make sure air is moving underneath.

Where?

Well, wherever they'll let us.

We're going to try to stick in the mechanical room, of course.

Okay.