Radon testing in Nanticoke
Block walls, floor joints, and pipe openings are common radon entry points in older basements.
Nanticoke grew fast in the early twentieth century, when its mines and mills drew thousands of families to the southwestern end of the Wyoming Valley. Today it's home to the main campus of Luzerne County Community College, and many of its neighborhoods are still lined with the sturdy homes built during those boom years.
Those houses have outlasted almost everything around them, but they were built decades before anyone knew radon existed. Stone and block foundations, mortar joints that have had a century to open, floor-wall gaps, and cellars that were never meant to be living space but often became it: every one of those details is a path for soil gas into the home.
A 48-hour test costs $150 to $250, with a certified report the day it ends. If the number is high, mitigation installs in a day, with the extra sealing an older foundation needs, and is verified with a follow-up test.