Massachusetts: 10,000 units safe limit
New Hampshire: 2,000 units safe limit
Maine: 20,000 safe limit
EPA: 20,000
our house: 14,000
??? what's actually true?
if memory serves. Don't quote me on these numbers, the point is just that each source has a different number that it presents as if it were solid fact.
A radon aerator costs north of $3500 and uses some electricity.
The former owner of the house we're looking at lived there her whole life. She looks fine, is upper middle-aged, I'd say. Her parents lived there. She never tested the
water for radon, doesn't remember if they ever tested the air for radon. (The air level is pretty low).
The well was dug in 1940, 200' deep. Not that deep. Not really granite country, but near-ish to New Hampshire.
I'm thinking if areating it is all it takes, why not just add an aerator to the kitchen sink for the drinking water, leave the water in a pitcher in the outside porch over night, or in winter we could put it away from the bedrooms over night, or put a lid on it and vent it in the morning and then drink from the pitcher.
I was hoping someone would have done experiments on this already and I have found nothing on the net or on permies. Anyone? Thanks, team!