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Radon Sump- Anyone install one?

  • 24-06-2011 11:06am
    #1
    millertime78
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 160 ✭✭


    The parents house has a very high radon reading, so I need to put in a radon sump.

    Anyone any experience of this, I assume I'll need to cut a core out of the wall in under the foundation??


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  • #2
    O.A.P
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    I have put in plenty of them but on new builds and the whole raft is then covered with a radon barrier. This gives the radon gas no option to escape only through the sump and escape pipe. Im not certain but I think just digging a sump on its own would'nt achive much.


  • #3
    johngalway
    Closed Accounts Posts: 10,271 ✭✭✭✭johngalway


    Moving this to Construction & Planning forum as it's not a Farming & Forestry topic :)


  • #4
    rayjdav
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    RPII document with regard to existing houses and possible remedial works.

    http://www.rpii.ie/Documents/Understanding-Radon-remediation.aspx


  • #5
    BryanF
    Moderators, Home & Garden Moderators Posts: 10,146 Mod ✭✭✭✭BryanF


    millertime78 wrote: »
    The parents house has a very high radon reading, so I need to put in a radon sump.

    Anyone any experience of this, I assume I'll need to cut a core out of the wall in under the foundation??

    would you be better off, installing a demand controlled mechanical extract system. there normally hooked up to a Relative Humidity & Co2 sensor but maybe this could be reworked to a radon sensor?


  • #6
    Mellor
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 39,900 ✭✭✭✭Mellor


    Radon levels are so low that I wouldn't trust a sensor, we have no idea of dispersion either.


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