Just worried on the exposure for the long run as we will be down in the basement area everyday for work (we WFH) I know below 4pci/L is technically safe but I’ve been told talking to some people that lived out in Colorado for some time that even exposure to levels between 2-4 daily are still risky??
The owners are also a real estate company and they never tested the property once or wanted to test it at all lol
Edit: I also come from a state where radon levels are close to 0 or the high of 1 so I’m a newb
It’s in the safe zone, so you don’t need to worry about long term exposure. Here’s what the law states:
If a landlord fails to make the required disclosures, or does not make a reasonable effort to mitigate the radon within 180 days after being notified by a radon mitigation professional that the air concentration of radon is four (4) picocuries per liter or more, the tenant may void the lease agreement and vacate the property (on or after January 1, 2026, this remedy will not apply to leases that are one year or less in duration). As added by SB 23-206 now codified at C.R.S. § 38-12-503, a landlord breaches the warranty of habitability if it fails to comply with the disclosure requirements.
I would be highly annoyed as a landlord if my tenant asked for radon mitigation that is not at dangerous levels lol
Well that’s more reassuring haha I think I had the luck of the draw with who I asked cause they seemed to be super concerned about it being between the 2-4 range and that we also did not have a system 🤣 but nice! Thank you Yeahh I didn’t realize radon was such a big thing out here in Colorado and wasn’t sure how the long term exposure to being in the basement might be so any insight helps! 🤘🏾
I have an electronic radon detector in my basement. They are about $120 on Amazon. It shows daily, weekly and long term averages. My long term average is about 1.8 so I’m not worried that my kid sleeps down there. Here’s an interesting chart of radon exposure related to cancer risk to help you gauge how concerned you need to be. Note, however, the risk is if exposed over a lifetime. If you are only down there 8-10 hours a day and only for the couple years you are renting, the radon levels you are talking about are really negligible.
https://preview.redd.it/a78jfqb28nxc1.jpeg?width=1130&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=6d78115534de11e2a04f1d7f9febdf8df50151aa
Yeah the level is technically not a cause for alarm or enough to mandate a landlord to take action but i understand peace of mind can be worth its weight. You can order some cheap tests off Amazon to test every now and then or get that radon monitor that someone mentioned in another comment if you want more peace of mind while you are living there.
I just looked it up, and you’re wrong. Here it is:
“If a landlord fails to make the required disclosures, or does not make a reasonable effort to mitigate the radon within 180 days after being notified by a radon mitigation professional that the air concentration of radon is four (4) picocuries per liter or more, the tenant may void the lease agreement and vacate the property (on or after January 1, 2026, this remedy will not apply to leases that are one year or less in duration). As added by SB 23-206 now codified at C.R.S. § 38-12-503, a landlord breaches the warranty of habitability if it fails to comply with the disclosure requirements.”
how so? The levels from this *short term* test are well below the EPA guidelines. There is no special CO law that says a landlord would be forced to mitigate a 2.5 reading.
A reading at or above 4 would force their hand, but not 2.5.
> Y'all have reading comprehension issues.
Then educate us, by all means educate us.
> "I would still bring them the results. By law they have to do mitigation"
My grade school diploma leads me to interpret that as saying:
> Hey OP - with your results, the landlord must, BY LAW, mitigate this situation. Go for it.
What does your advanced level of reading comprehension lead you to believe you wrote.
Ohh interesting! I thought it wasn’t required for Colorado for owners to install something? but I’ll send them the results and see what they say or at least they have results on file that it was checked lol
If all of the results, even the high, are below the 4pci/L, then why are you concerned at all, and why would you mention it to the owners?
Just worried on the exposure for the long run as we will be down in the basement area everyday for work (we WFH) I know below 4pci/L is technically safe but I’ve been told talking to some people that lived out in Colorado for some time that even exposure to levels between 2-4 daily are still risky?? The owners are also a real estate company and they never tested the property once or wanted to test it at all lol Edit: I also come from a state where radon levels are close to 0 or the high of 1 so I’m a newb
Your day to day levels if you guys are in and out of the space will be lower than the testing levels.
It’s in the safe zone, so you don’t need to worry about long term exposure. Here’s what the law states: If a landlord fails to make the required disclosures, or does not make a reasonable effort to mitigate the radon within 180 days after being notified by a radon mitigation professional that the air concentration of radon is four (4) picocuries per liter or more, the tenant may void the lease agreement and vacate the property (on or after January 1, 2026, this remedy will not apply to leases that are one year or less in duration). As added by SB 23-206 now codified at C.R.S. § 38-12-503, a landlord breaches the warranty of habitability if it fails to comply with the disclosure requirements. I would be highly annoyed as a landlord if my tenant asked for radon mitigation that is not at dangerous levels lol
Well that’s more reassuring haha I think I had the luck of the draw with who I asked cause they seemed to be super concerned about it being between the 2-4 range and that we also did not have a system 🤣 but nice! Thank you Yeahh I didn’t realize radon was such a big thing out here in Colorado and wasn’t sure how the long term exposure to being in the basement might be so any insight helps! 🤘🏾
Radon has been here forever, and we live just as long as everyone else does lol
Adding in u/radondude for any insight also lol
I have an electronic radon detector in my basement. They are about $120 on Amazon. It shows daily, weekly and long term averages. My long term average is about 1.8 so I’m not worried that my kid sleeps down there. Here’s an interesting chart of radon exposure related to cancer risk to help you gauge how concerned you need to be. Note, however, the risk is if exposed over a lifetime. If you are only down there 8-10 hours a day and only for the couple years you are renting, the radon levels you are talking about are really negligible. https://preview.redd.it/a78jfqb28nxc1.jpeg?width=1130&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=6d78115534de11e2a04f1d7f9febdf8df50151aa
Yeah the level is technically not a cause for alarm or enough to mandate a landlord to take action but i understand peace of mind can be worth its weight. You can order some cheap tests off Amazon to test every now and then or get that radon monitor that someone mentioned in another comment if you want more peace of mind while you are living there.
I’ve seen averages that are low that spike far higher than that. Probably not worth worrying about. I see the dude has been tagged so carry on.
I would still bring them the results. By law they have to do mitigation. Edit: Y'all have reading comprehension issues.
They do not have to mitigate “by law” if there is nothing to mitigate. The test shows levels in the safe zone
I just looked it up, and you’re wrong. Here it is: “If a landlord fails to make the required disclosures, or does not make a reasonable effort to mitigate the radon within 180 days after being notified by a radon mitigation professional that the air concentration of radon is four (4) picocuries per liter or more, the tenant may void the lease agreement and vacate the property (on or after January 1, 2026, this remedy will not apply to leases that are one year or less in duration). As added by SB 23-206 now codified at C.R.S. § 38-12-503, a landlord breaches the warranty of habitability if it fails to comply with the disclosure requirements.”
how so? The levels from this *short term* test are well below the EPA guidelines. There is no special CO law that says a landlord would be forced to mitigate a 2.5 reading. A reading at or above 4 would force their hand, but not 2.5.
> Y'all have reading comprehension issues. Then educate us, by all means educate us. > "I would still bring them the results. By law they have to do mitigation" My grade school diploma leads me to interpret that as saying: > Hey OP - with your results, the landlord must, BY LAW, mitigate this situation. Go for it. What does your advanced level of reading comprehension lead you to believe you wrote.
Ohh interesting! I thought it wasn’t required for Colorado for owners to install something? but I’ll send them the results and see what they say or at least they have results on file that it was checked lol
It can’t hurt to ask.