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Originally Posted by potatosoup
I keep seeing people say "high" amounts. What is high? Every state has different levels now? EPA says 4 or 2 these days? The house I'm buying shows 11 as an average! With 16 as the highest. I have a thread on this, but it does make me wonder, what if I close and the mitigation doesn't work?
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Try levels like at 3600. O' my O'my. Is that
HIGH???????
Run, run, scream demand "Mitigation" or some other fancy sounding word.
What would happen to a person exposed to such a level? How long could they be expected to live?????
In fact that happens at regular intervals. Peeps are knowing exposed to extremely high levels (900 and above times this so called safe level) as part of what are known as spa's. In both the USA and Europe Radon is used as a type of medical therapy. There are known persons exposed to levels in the 3600 range for twenty years and more with no recorded ill effects. They are fully documented.
Like I always tend to do on this subject I will ask one of those wrong questions.
Can you name me one other supposely toxic substance where exposure to ultra high level, way, way above that thought safe, results in no supposely proven damage and no recorded deaths listed as the cause from the event in such a practice????
I only want one other example.............
In your other thread I will give you a rather complete answer. It can be a bit eye opening if you really understand some of the particulars behind some of the claims. Especially some of the history.
I'm not home right now, on the lap top, so will come back to the subject when I have a good keyboard. This is a subject I almost never pass up.
If you read my comments about asbestos, this is another example of an industry "That has Grown Up around some circumstances a bit vague"
The asbestos danger is very real in certain particular situations. This particular so called hazard I can not make hang together in any type of logical method. In fact when you ask the wrong questions it falls apart more than any other thing. It has not been for a lack of trying to find it is a hazard, I sure looked hard enough. To date everything point in the other direction.
Like with asbestos, I've actually had some pretty good known exposure too it for real. Can tell some war stories.
The day is late, I will come back to the subject later. Some of it can be very interesting, especially if you take a non-standard approach.
That said, just know on an everyday basis in the "Great Housing Industry" you will play the game their way or get your head chopped off. It will be pay to play or another way of saying "No Tickee, No Washee" Still it can be fun to understand what you think you just bought. Will do it in your other thread. Might be a couple days, I might party again tomorrow.