I still had to do a double take, even knowing it was the testers' channel, to see if it wasn't a Furze video. They conformed it pretty well to Colin's own style.
you clearly aint seen colinfurze or colingfurze2 on here :P been following entire survival series , my guys coling has known for years world war 3 is coming hes gunna be safe
Greetings from Arizona, USA. We have radon gas potential too, and this video was a great balance of entertainment and actually public awareness. Well done!
@@JackONeill497 You make sure your house is well ventilated and don't hangout all day in the cellar or any poorly ventilated room close to the ground.
I grew up around Devon and Cornwall so have known of radon all my life, the old boys always say it's the granite that gives it off. People rarely worry about it so it will be interesting to see Colins results!
I'm from Belgium and heard about Radon a few years ago. I conducted a test with FANC(Federal Agency for Nuclear Control), and the results were OK. Now, I have an Airthings electronic tester, and I've noticed that during the winter when everything is closed, I experience higher Radon concentrations compared to the summer months. Additionally, the levels can vary from day to day; some days, I observe levels almost reaching 200 or even higher, while on other days, it's lower than 50. However, my average Radon concentration on a yearly basis remains below 100.
@NamelesshunterGaming Maybe he does it to get things for free or at a massive discount.. That is how many UA-camrs do it.. Not sure he falls into that category or not, but seeing as what he would do for a pay to win video game advert, my bet is did..
I use AirThings Wave radon detector and very satisfied with it. You can get measurements within a day and monitor changes if you make adjustments in ventilation.
I was going to mention AirThings if someone else hadn't already. I live in a high-radon area in 2019 new construction and the levels in our basement were very high. The builder had put in a 'passive' mitigation system, which is just a PVC pipe from under the basement slab up through the roof to give it a path of least resistance, but it wasn't enough. We had to convert it to an 'active' system by installing a fan in said pipe to constantly suck from beneath the slab, and that dropped levels well below the safe point. I keep an AirThings sensor in the basement, and have one in my first floor office and one in our master bedroom on the second floor. There latter two also monitor CO2, VOCs, humidity, etc. Using these we found the CO2 levels in our home were often very elevated. The perils of modern, highly efficient construction - very little gas exchange. So we installed an ERV (Energy Recovery Ventilation) system to improve the air exchange without too much energy loss and that really improved overall air quality too. I like these AirThings sensors. They track all kinds of things you might not otherwise think about.
I’m a construction superintendent in the USA and anytime we build a new structure we add piping under the foundation for the purpose of a radon fan system . After construction the building is tested for Radon. If the levels are low or none then the pipe just stays a pipe. If radon is detected then you are required to add a fan that sucks the air out of the pipe and exhausts it out of the building. In Massachusetts where we work this is required by code whether it gets used or not .
I wondered about this as soon as I saw the bunker. My house has high radon levels (2600 Bq or 70 piC/l), but sealing the floor cracks, installing drain air traps and a simple exhaust fan creating a negative pressure in the gravel under the slab got me down under 35Bq or 1 piC/l. I'm really surprised the test takes 3 months. They used two types of tests in my house, an electronic one and a charcoal one. Both took 48 hours. The electronic ones give readings every 10 minutes, but you let them average for 2 days. I bought a RadonEye continuous electronic monitor so I know what the levels are doing. The levels do vary with the weather.
I've got a radon eye also but it seems susceptible to weird spikes off the charts in the winter time. Support sent me a replacement and it does it too. I think it's probably RFI or EMI from my old house's baseboard heaters. I cannot trust it's readings during the winter time but it doesn't spike in the summer. I also run a Corentium Airthings which does a better job but updates much slower, of course.
It may be their channel but this video has Colin’s stamp all over it, the quality, the professional way it’s presented, the audio quality, the whole thing has a Furze vibe to it. So a thumbs up to Colin for helping this channel out and I hope they do well.
@@question_themwell count me as foolish. I didn’t even check who posted it and just assumed i was recommended a video on Furze’s channel. Good looking out!
Thank you for that lovely comment, Colin is a great guy and we are so lucky to have had the chance to film this with him… He had no input with the production, that was me on iMovie so I’m feeling very chuffed right now! 😂 - Dan
@@Glencoe-Radvac, I guess I was assuming to much, you guys did a great job with your video. I hope we get to hear the results from you when they come in. Good luck in the future!
I'm in the US and we ran a radon test on the house we purchased, and our real estate agent had the sellers pay to have a radon system installed, which consisted of drilling a hole in the basement floor and fitting a plastic pipe underneath it, then there's a fan that pulls the gas out from under the foundation and up a tube and vents it above the roof
From midwest USA here. Radon is everywhere, we install radon mitigation systems that essentially suck the gas from under our home foundations and pipe it outside near the roof line
In Massachusetts, when buying our house, our home inspector did a couple of overnight radon tests, and it failed, so the previous owner paid for a radon system much like yours. It sucks air from under the foundation and from a crawlspace up a pipe that vents out the roof. It's just a small fan that runs all the time. With the system in place, the house passed the test just fine. Doing a multi-month test is impressive.
East Tennessee, USA here. Lots of radon with porous limestone bedrock in this region. Your readings vary from house to house so get tested. Recommend AirThings monitors to keep an eye on your levels.
Hi, we are still awaiting the monitors from Colin, as you know he is a very, very busy man! The monitors can stay in place for up to a year, its a minimum of 90 days. Hopefully updates soon!
Love that a government agency is working with this madlad for the purpose of educating about the harms of radon gas. Absolutely love that, excellent work boys.
We have nothing to do with the government, we are family run business, just trying to spread awareness of radon gas because most people in the UK have never heard of it and could be living amongst it. Thanks for the comment though! 👍🏼
Colin the fact you did this means a lot to someone like myself. My father passed away in 2008 from radon exposure from my childhood home after living there for twenty years.
I remember talking about Radon in High School chemistry in the states. Where I live it is also standard with the walk-thru inspection as I know my basement has radon. The sellers paid for a portion of the mitigation system but it is fairly common in my area.
Should throw a centrally mounted pps in either way to help with his condensation in the tunnel, hes got working extraction at the bunker end thats drawing moisture from tunnel and garage end exacerbating the problem. You could also get him to install a ventilation shaft whilst its still under construction so you can install a more powerful loft unit instead of a ppsf which will struggle with such a large open area.
After thinking about it further, positive pressure is probably not the best way to go due to the house access and the potential of the positive air pressure feeding radon into the living space. A more cautious and directed option would be better; by installing sump extraction pumps strategically at both ends of the tunnel at surface level directing the radon away from the bunker in the first place with the air exhausting above the roofline of the property, couple this with radon barrier coverings/sealant in the bunker area as belt and braces. Still have a centrally mounted PPs/f to deal with any moisture creation, Colin likes the odd cup of tea.
@@justlooking3572The positive pressure works by reversing the airflow so the radon won't seep in. Instead the clean air will "seep out." So there will not be any radon to be pumped from the bunker to the house.
@@AnttiBrax it doesn't reverse it, it creates a positive pressure as a barrier to redirect the radon particles, and will use any available gap to push any away, including through the kitchen entrance to the house. And as the entrance doesn't have a proper seal, or is even closed very often, its barrier making ability will be compromised and any air will take the path of least resistance, entering into the property and no positive pressure will be created at all, all it will do is create a cold draught into the kitchen, effectively providing a superhighway for any radon particles to get into the house from the cooler bunker and will also give the tenant a pretty valid reason to switch it off if it makes their house cold. An external sump unit will redirect the radon away from the bunker all together. If the bunker wasn't directly attached to the property, positive pressure would be the perfect option but it is, so its not.
I live in one of the highest radon areas in Eastern Ontario, Canada. My 110-year old house has a stone foundation, with a rammed-earth floor in the basement. Testing on the 2nd level of the house showed a long-term average of 60bcq/m3. The WHO recommended "action threshold" is 100 bcq/m3. But most countries have adopted a 200bcq/m3 limit.
Honestly seems like the next perfect boogieman next to global warming/cooling/climate/normal-fvcking-weather and covid. Just another way to suck money out of your wallet.
I just had radon mitigation installed in my house. Huge difference. Colin, you should have put a layer of rocks beneath your tunnel, then they could have installed a fan to vent it outside! Also helps with moisture!
7:00 the problem with radon is that it's heavier than air. So if you have an underground bunker, it could fill up with radon if you don't mitigate it. I had a house in New Hampshire, where the granite is never far underground. But my basement opened out into the garage, so any radon that entered would flow out into the garage and into the open air where it would dissipate.
This made me realize. Radon is one of those things that I had a vague idea about, but didn't know much about. Like, I knew it was a radioactive gas. I know it sometimes show up in houses, and that's a bad thing (presumably related to the radioactivity.) So this turned out very informative. Thank you.
Good Evening Sir, Radon Gas Is Also Present Up Here In The Province Of Quebec ( Eastern Townships and Around Montreal ), Canada and Must Be Deal Properly 🧐👍 Cheers 🍻🍻
In Ireland 27 years ago in bandon co cork we were installing radon boxes on new buildings just a box upside down and 4 “ pipes to vent to atmosphere and I’m from wales but have very close relatives over there and I was a bricklayer to boot staying my grandads couldn’t get better
Im sure its a problem over there somewhere as well, but in the US some areas have an issue with radon coming in through the well water because surprise surprise radon dissolves in water like Co2. Whole complex water systems to remove the radon before it goes into your house that usually involve the well pump filling a tub with lots of baffles inside it and an exhaust fan that sucks the air and radon out of the tub and sends it outside while its in use. Then you have to have a little pump because the tub separates your house from your well pump with an air gap. also plastic and metal only slow radon down. Radon diffuses right through it eventually.
Wells are very uncommon in the UK. Most homes are connected to the mains water supply from their local water treatment facility. You would have to be significantly outside of a town in order to have a well here.
After owning several homes here in the USA I can tell you that we have installed a mitigation system in every one of them. From mud shale of West Virginia, to the granite of New Hampshire, to the planes of Kansas every home we have had has tested above the “Safe” levels. One think I have learned is rain can seriously raise the level of Radon in short term test. It is good to see you are doing a long term study.
The only reason we would ever do a short term test is after a mitigation system has been installed, the customer might like to see if it is dropping the levels but this will ALWAYS be alongside a long term test. It blew my mind when I visited Boston, you can go and buy a radon test kit in Home Depot! 😂
@@Glencoe-Radvac not all home inspectors are up to speed either. When we sold our one home the home inspector for the buyer placed the test one foot off the basement floor, which it standard here on the US, problem was he set on a stone hearth, probably why the reading was so high.
@@mjames1842 It was not from the stone hearth, but miles of granite below your house. Radon is a heavier than air gas that accumulates down low in areas with little ventilation. It gets drawn up by convection heating also. Two feet from floor is what they recommend with Corentium Airthings devices. They work great.
Devon is also a Radon hot spot. I was told is was because of the geology of the area - heavy granite substrate around these parts. I got a Radon survey when I got my house.
Pretty easy stuff to deal with if it’s an issue for ya. Our part of Canada we put in a single vent straight to the roof from under the basement slab. It’s part of the building code. *old homes aren’t required to retrofit.
People are slowly learning about it. 2nd leading cause of lung cancer after smoking is no joke. You can google for "radon survey map in my area" and see if there's a map already made. If in moderate or high risk area, you can buy a detector for less than a hundred bucks. Look up Corentium Airthings.
As someone who knows enough about radiation to not be scared any time it is mentioned, how do the levels in bequerels/m³ mentioned in the video translate to µS/hr?
I learned about radon in school I was building houses in Ireland 25 years ago and we always put down a red radon barrier under the sub floor they don't do in that in the UK
I was wondering when this was going to come up for Colin. It's pretty common up here in Canada, so we tend to keep our basements well ventilated. Well, the ones who are aware that is.
The annoying thing about radon is you can't see it. And those measurements takes ages. By the time you get a reading you're already panicking in case it's high. I know it's not too worrisome with a reading of 200-300 for a few months but it's like everything else that increases risk; It doesn't hurt to reduce it if you can. In my case I had a gap between the concrete floor and the foundation wall in basement (very old house, no barrier) and it was sucking air in from under the foundation. Taking care of that reduced radon in the rest of the house by 2/3 ! For peace of mind I got an AirThings View+ so I can see plots of daily, weekly, monthly and it's staggering how little was needed to improve it.
Wow I had no idea how common it was. I live in Australia, luckily my area is low risk. But still there. Good luck with your testing, hoping your levels are safe.
Yes yes yes…so very common… like not an issue till like 30 years ago. Here in the USA in the mid 90’s lots of money spent on studies and companies, governments came out and try to scare people with it. It’s all about money, companies found they could make money with it. And yes I built 72 houses from 1996-2011. Question to ask yourself why does it take 3 months to do a test… air out your house, keep the moisture down, run a dehumidifier. In the USA: 1: cigarette smoking, 2. Pipe and cigar smoking, 3 passive or second-hand smoke, 4 asbestos, 5. Radon Gas, 6. Genetics, 7. Lung disease, 8. Air pollution, 9. Previous Lung Cancer, 10. Ingesting Arsenic. So you decide…. But to me it’s about creating fear and making money. 80% of lung cancer is caused by smoking. But you decide…..
Thanks for the head's up. I live near a quarry, and checking the map, it does show as high for Radon. Luckily, it's far enough away from me not to concern me. Looking around Stamford heck, it's all a bit purple.
Here in Finland radon is taken in to account every time a new building is being planned. Usyally on high risk areas a set of pipes with holes are buried under the house and then you have a motor on the roof that sucks air out of the pipes below your house to lower the level of radon gas inside the house.
I actually worked somewhere where we made parts of radon detectors, and the company moved to a building specially engineered to keep radon out and ventilate it away so it didn't contaminate the detectors. The trick with radon, though it isn't 100% positive one way or the other, is if you're dealing with limestone assume there's lots of it, there's a reason they correlate on the national maps, and of course Colin has been dealing with nothing but limestone which is presumably why people were screeching. Miners deal with it all the time, where it becomes a Big Deal - you can actually deal with it to a decent extent with ventilation, one of the benefits of it being a gas, but it decays to radioactive lead and bismuth and that's the real issue with it that people don't generally understand.
So now in a place with condensation problems you have to pump in outside air. Here in the us we put daylight drains in under concrete for the gas to escape.
@@svencorbyuk we are still waiting for the monitors to be sent back to us from Colin, as you can imagine he’s a very busy man! That test is minimum 90 days but can stay for up to a year. As soon as we have an update we will be posting 👍🏼
Its nearly test time to see if i should be glowing lol.
Haha! See you soon, Colin!
If this turns out to be your origin story, then I can't think of anything more appropriate.
Colin you Glowing would be a fkn hillarious beginning to the second part of this!! 😂😂
colin going to keep digging down find that uranium you will be rich
Gonna turn into a Fallout Ghoul. Just hope he doesn't go Feral.
"unfortunately, you'd have to fill it all in" Colin's laugh there was multi-layered haha
"Hahaha" *quiet panic*
4:27
I took it as a "I don't care if it's through the roof, you're not filling this in." Kinna laugh.
that woulda been followed by a nah get out
better to not know in that case
"HAHAHA, you're joking right?"
Colin, you’ve probably done more for awareness than anyone in years. No doubt this will save lives.
We all die of something
@@Dtp2296Yes, but there is a difference between dying in two years to an aggressive cancer and dying in 40 years due to syphilitic brain rot.
the safety tie will keep him safe from lung cancer
This isn't even Colin's YT, thank the radon guys.
People will have to calm their nerves with a cigarette.
This is the most calm low key Colin furze video ever.
It's not his video, to be fair, it's the company that tested his bunker.
I still had to do a double take, even knowing it was the testers' channel, to see if it wasn't a Furze video. They conformed it pretty well to Colin's own style.
@@512Squared Still a Colin Furze video. We all know what he meant. And yes, the most understated one EVER!
I assume hes filming this also for his main channel vid
I think Colin was genuinely concerned he may have to make big scary changes 😢
This Colin fella looks interesting. He should have his own channel and document this bunker build.
Indeed. Surely, it can't be that good being a mere plumber. 😜
Someone should tell him. Do you wanna tell him? I wanna tell him.
Naaaa , don't tell...😂
you clearly aint seen colinfurze or colingfurze2 on here :P been following entire survival series , my guys coling has known for years world war 3 is coming hes gunna be safe
@@drjock420 I do believe they're joking, mate
How nice of Colin to do this video for them!
Greetings from Arizona, USA. We have radon gas potential too, and this video was a great balance of entertainment and actually public awareness. Well done!
What? I live in Arizona and I did t even know
@@billy2890I believe it’s everywhere. Like everywhere in the world.
@@billy2890 100% you do, just depends on how much. Like it is here, it could be very low, or very high.
I just checked the website, I'm in the Westcountry and apparently I should glow in the dark. 😂
@@mickenossthe readybrek kid (as you granny)
@colinfurze @2muchcolinfurze won't panic he's got his safety tie on 😂
😂😂
No he won't panic, he will just be sweating a lot..
And his safety squints
checked the map - oh dear we're almost black... bought a test kit! - Thank you for bringing this to our attention - great public service
So let's say your house has a lot of radon gas. What now?
@@JackONeill497 Stop eating Radon!
@@JackONeill497 You move lol
@@JackONeill497 You make sure your house is well ventilated and don't hangout all day in the cellar or any poorly ventilated room close to the ground.
Go on with life. It's bullshit.
I grew up around Devon and Cornwall so have known of radon all my life, the old boys always say it's the granite that gives it off. People rarely worry about it so it will be interesting to see Colins results!
Results video in the future, subscribe so you don’t miss it 👍🏼
Indeed, here in Cornwall it's just another thing. Smoke detectors and radar detector and just get on with life!
@@delta250a with devonport just around the corner the radar may come in handy 😉
XD I'm leaving that! @@gingerelvis
Yes it is
I'm from Belgium and heard about Radon a few years ago. I conducted a test with FANC(Federal Agency for Nuclear Control), and the results were OK. Now, I have an Airthings electronic tester, and I've noticed that during the winter when everything is closed, I experience higher Radon concentrations compared to the summer months. Additionally, the levels can vary from day to day; some days, I observe levels almost reaching 200 or even higher, while on other days, it's lower than 50. However, my average Radon concentration on a yearly basis remains below 100.
Colin, I love how you work with smaller youtubers, this is fascinating stuff and I found this very interesting. thx guys.
Colin is a lovely guy on and off camera, it was a great experience for us!
Thanks for the comment 👍🏼
@NamelesshunterGaming Maybe he does it to get things for free or at a massive discount.. That is how many UA-camrs do it.. Not sure he falls into that category or not, but seeing as what he would do for a pay to win video game advert, my bet is did..
ooh but I noticed the Christmas decoration on the door. The 3 months must be up!
Very soon! Good eye! 👀
You super sleuth.
Looking forward to the report. Radon or no?
@@Janer-52 u mean, radon or radoff :D
@@milire2668Made me laugh! Exactly.
Very wise to test, Mr Furze. Had problems in my town.
I use AirThings Wave radon detector and very satisfied with it. You can get measurements within a day and monitor changes if you make adjustments in ventilation.
I was going to mention AirThings if someone else hadn't already. I live in a high-radon area in 2019 new construction and the levels in our basement were very high. The builder had put in a 'passive' mitigation system, which is just a PVC pipe from under the basement slab up through the roof to give it a path of least resistance, but it wasn't enough. We had to convert it to an 'active' system by installing a fan in said pipe to constantly suck from beneath the slab, and that dropped levels well below the safe point.
I keep an AirThings sensor in the basement, and have one in my first floor office and one in our master bedroom on the second floor. There latter two also monitor CO2, VOCs, humidity, etc.
Using these we found the CO2 levels in our home were often very elevated. The perils of modern, highly efficient construction - very little gas exchange. So we installed an ERV (Energy Recovery Ventilation) system to improve the air exchange without too much energy loss and that really improved overall air quality too.
I like these AirThings sensors. They track all kinds of things you might not otherwise think about.
I’m a construction superintendent in the USA and anytime we build a new structure we add piping under the foundation for the purpose of a radon fan system . After construction the building is tested for Radon. If the levels are low or none then the pipe just stays a pipe. If radon is detected then you are required to add a fan that sucks the air out of the pipe and exhausts it out of the building. In Massachusetts where we work this is required by code whether it gets used or not .
I thought this was a Colin vid.
Still watched it, it was chill.
We just did radon remediation in our home about two weeks ago. Lung cancer ain't anything to mess around with, so I'm glad we did!
As a radon guy myself, I've asked him a few times in the comments about it so it's great to see you guys sort him out! Great stuff lads
same here!
This is going to be Glencoe Radvacs most popular video with all the Furze Fans!!!!
they have only one video...
the part when the inspector was joking about filling all the bunker... Colin was like 😅 ... laughing nervously... 🤞
I wondered about this as soon as I saw the bunker. My house has high radon levels (2600 Bq or 70 piC/l), but sealing the floor cracks, installing drain air traps and a simple exhaust fan creating a negative pressure in the gravel under the slab got me down under 35Bq or 1 piC/l. I'm really surprised the test takes 3 months. They used two types of tests in my house, an electronic one and a charcoal one. Both took 48 hours. The electronic ones give readings every 10 minutes, but you let them average for 2 days. I bought a RadonEye continuous electronic monitor so I know what the levels are doing. The levels do vary with the weather.
I've got a radon eye also but it seems susceptible to weird spikes off the charts in the winter time. Support sent me a replacement and it does it too. I think it's probably RFI or EMI from my old house's baseboard heaters. I cannot trust it's readings during the winter time but it doesn't spike in the summer. I also run a Corentium Airthings which does a better job but updates much slower, of course.
Thanks for keeping Colin Safe!
You bet!
Top notch respect for allowing the Radon guy to do the ending with their info.
Edit: good on Furze for doing a spot with these fellas. Great video!!
It's their video on their channel...
It may be their channel but this video has Colin’s stamp all over it, the quality, the professional way it’s presented, the audio quality, the whole thing has a Furze vibe to it. So a thumbs up to Colin for helping this channel out and I hope they do well.
@@question_themwell count me as foolish. I didn’t even check who posted it and just assumed i was recommended a video on Furze’s channel. Good looking out!
Thank you for that lovely comment, Colin is a great guy and we are so lucky to have had the chance to film this with him… He had no input with the production, that was me on iMovie so I’m feeling very chuffed right now! 😂 - Dan
@@Glencoe-Radvac, I guess I was assuming to much, you guys did a great job with your video. I hope we get to hear the results from you when they come in. Good luck in the future!
I'm in the US and we ran a radon test on the house we purchased, and our real estate agent had the sellers pay to have a radon system installed, which consisted of drilling a hole in the basement floor and fitting a plastic pipe underneath it, then there's a fan that pulls the gas out from under the foundation and up a tube and vents it above the roof
They also like to do their radon tests in the summer time when levels are lowest. Sneaky! Test it yourself with a Corentium Airthings.
From midwest USA here. Radon is everywhere, we install radon mitigation systems that essentially suck the gas from under our home foundations and pipe it outside near the roof line
Seems cheaper to just put in an ERV which solves more problems that just a dedicated Radon system that cost way too much for what they are..
In Massachusetts, when buying our house, our home inspector did a couple of overnight radon tests, and it failed, so the previous owner paid for a radon system much like yours. It sucks air from under the foundation and from a crawlspace up a pipe that vents out the roof. It's just a small fan that runs all the time. With the system in place, the house passed the test just fine. Doing a multi-month test is impressive.
I worked at Hinckley Point and in there visitors centre a geiger counter was next to a local piece of granite which was ticking away !
So it really is a nuclear bunker.
came for The Office snippet - was absolutely NOT disappointed! Good Going guys!
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East Tennessee, USA here. Lots of radon with porous limestone bedrock in this region. Your readings vary from house to house so get tested. Recommend AirThings monitors to keep an eye on your levels.
Very informative video! Thanks, guys!
Results?
We are still waiting on Colin! He’s been too busy to send the detectors back to us!
@@Glencoe-Radvac what? That's no fun
I love Colin! I can't get enough of that bunker.
SO WHAT HAPPENED??!!? Every month I come back to check lol... it's been well over the time line when all results would be done. What happened?
Hi, we are still awaiting the monitors from Colin, as you know he is a very, very busy man! The monitors can stay in place for up to a year, its a minimum of 90 days. Hopefully updates soon!
@@Glencoe-Radvac oh okay! Thanks so much for the response! I really appreciate that. Great work you guys have done. I’m excited for the follow up.
Love that a government agency is working with this madlad for the purpose of educating about the harms of radon gas. Absolutely love that, excellent work boys.
We have nothing to do with the government, we are family run business, just trying to spread awareness of radon gas because most people in the UK have never heard of it and could be living amongst it. Thanks for the comment though! 👍🏼
@@Glencoe-Radvac even better :)
I love this video changes your normal views by several thousand percent by being link to Colin
FINALLY he tests for radon, I've been wondering about this ever since he started tunnelling!!!
same here. awareness is spreading, slowly. I've loaned my detector to a couple friends.
This is great awareness of something not commonly talked about.
Thank you!
I love this percussion we all love collin so please keep him safe even tho he might think its okay
Colin the fact you did this means a lot to someone like myself. My father passed away in 2008 from radon exposure from my childhood home after living there for twenty years.
I remember talking about Radon in High School chemistry in the states. Where I live it is also standard with the walk-thru inspection as I know my basement has radon. The sellers paid for a portion of the mitigation system but it is fairly common in my area.
They actually make some really good radon blocking coatings, we actually use an additive in our concrete that helps block radon as well
Nice to see this as an information and interesting bit to spread the word. Well done!
Should throw a centrally mounted pps in either way to help with his condensation in the tunnel, hes got working extraction at the bunker end thats drawing moisture from tunnel and garage end exacerbating the problem. You could also get him to install a ventilation shaft whilst its still under construction so you can install a more powerful loft unit instead of a ppsf which will struggle with such a large open area.
After thinking about it further, positive pressure is probably not the best way to go due to the house access and the potential of the positive air pressure feeding radon into the living space. A more cautious and directed option would be better; by installing sump extraction pumps strategically at both ends of the tunnel at surface level directing the radon away from the bunker in the first place with the air exhausting above the roofline of the property, couple this with radon barrier coverings/sealant in the bunker area as belt and braces. Still have a centrally mounted PPs/f to deal with any moisture creation, Colin likes the odd cup of tea.
@@justlooking3572The positive pressure works by reversing the airflow so the radon won't seep in. Instead the clean air will "seep out." So there will not be any radon to be pumped from the bunker to the house.
@@AnttiBrax it doesn't reverse it, it creates a positive pressure as a barrier to redirect the radon particles, and will use any available gap to push any away, including through the kitchen entrance to the house. And as the entrance doesn't have a proper seal, or is even closed very often, its barrier making ability will be compromised and any air will take the path of least resistance, entering into the property and no positive pressure will be created at all, all it will do is create a cold draught into the kitchen, effectively providing a superhighway for any radon particles to get into the house from the cooler bunker and will also give the tenant a pretty valid reason to switch it off if it makes their house cold. An external sump unit will redirect the radon away from the bunker all together. If the bunker wasn't directly attached to the property, positive pressure would be the perfect option but it is, so its not.
I live in one of the highest radon areas in Eastern Ontario, Canada. My 110-year old house has a stone foundation, with a rammed-earth floor in the basement. Testing on the 2nd level of the house showed a long-term average of 60bcq/m3. The WHO recommended "action threshold" is 100 bcq/m3. But most countries have adopted a 200bcq/m3 limit.
Honestly seems like the next perfect boogieman next to global warming/cooling/climate/normal-fvcking-weather and covid. Just another way to suck money out of your wallet.
I just had radon mitigation installed in my house. Huge difference.
Colin, you should have put a layer of rocks beneath your tunnel, then they could have installed a fan to vent it outside!
Also helps with moisture!
7:00 the problem with radon is that it's heavier than air. So if you have an underground bunker, it could fill up with radon if you don't mitigate it. I had a house in New Hampshire, where the granite is never far underground. But my basement opened out into the garage, so any radon that entered would flow out into the garage and into the open air where it would dissipate.
Great public service Colin nice one, 👍👏👏👏
This made me realize. Radon is one of those things that I had a vague idea about, but didn't know much about.
Like, I knew it was a radioactive gas. I know it sometimes show up in houses, and that's a bad thing (presumably related to the radioactivity.)
So this turned out very informative. Thank you.
Thanks for your comment!
I like how Collin talks to the camera like it’s his channel lol
Good Evening Sir, Radon Gas Is Also Present Up Here In The Province Of Quebec ( Eastern Townships and Around Montreal ), Canada and Must Be Deal Properly 🧐👍 Cheers 🍻🍻
Very informative!
So I had a question. Could you paint the interior of the tunnels with lead paint and reduce the radon that way?
Great for awareness!
In Ireland 27 years ago in bandon co cork we were installing radon boxes on new buildings just a box upside down and 4 “ pipes to vent to atmosphere and I’m from wales but have very close relatives over there and I was a bricklayer to boot staying my grandads couldn’t get better
Cool, I had one done and a short term test detected 240 units and I have a long term test ongoing as well to see if that was just a spike.
So do u have sniffers for all the various things you will have in ur bunker at this time? After they take theirs back once test is completed?
Awesome video. Thanks for spreading awareness🎉
Thank you!
I was aware of Radon over 50 years ago. It is a radioactive decay product of radium-226, which is found in metamorphic rocks such as granite.
I've seen it in the clause on a lease for commercial property before wonder about it long term being in there
Im sure its a problem over there somewhere as well, but in the US some areas have an issue with radon coming in through the well water because surprise surprise radon dissolves in water like Co2. Whole complex water systems to remove the radon before it goes into your house that usually involve the well pump filling a tub with lots of baffles inside it and an exhaust fan that sucks the air and radon out of the tub and sends it outside while its in use. Then you have to have a little pump because the tub separates your house from your well pump with an air gap. also plastic and metal only slow radon down. Radon diffuses right through it eventually.
Wells are very uncommon in the UK.
Most homes are connected to the mains water supply from their local water treatment facility.
You would have to be significantly outside of a town in order to have a well here.
Hey didn't Tom Scott go to a mine where he got a radon treatment? In Germany?
After owning several homes here in the USA I can tell you that we have installed a mitigation system in every one of them. From mud shale of West Virginia, to the granite of New Hampshire, to the planes of Kansas every home we have had has tested above the “Safe” levels.
One think I have learned is rain can seriously raise the level of Radon in short term test. It is good to see you are doing a long term study.
The only reason we would ever do a short term test is after a mitigation system has been installed, the customer might like to see if it is dropping the levels but this will ALWAYS be alongside a long term test.
It blew my mind when I visited Boston, you can go and buy a radon test kit in Home Depot! 😂
@@Glencoe-Radvac not all home inspectors are up to speed either. When we sold our one home the home inspector for the buyer placed the test one foot off the basement floor, which it standard here on the US, problem was he set on a stone hearth, probably why the reading was so high.
@@mjames1842 It was not from the stone hearth, but miles of granite below your house. Radon is a heavier than air gas that accumulates down low in areas with little ventilation. It gets drawn up by convection heating also. Two feet from floor is what they recommend with Corentium Airthings devices. They work great.
Devon is also a Radon hot spot. I was told is was because of the geology of the area - heavy granite substrate around these parts. I got a Radon survey when I got my house.
Does anyone know the contacts for that Stormtrooper picture😊
That was really educational and entertaining, thank you very much.
Pretty easy stuff to deal with if it’s an issue for ya.
Our part of Canada we put in a single vent straight to the roof from under the basement slab.
It’s part of the building code.
*old homes aren’t required to retrofit.
Passive systems do not always work. Remediation can be difficult in certain buildings.
This video is a revelation. Having never heard of Radon gas before I did have to check that we are still in March, not April. 👍
People are slowly learning about it. 2nd leading cause of lung cancer after smoking is no joke. You can google for "radon survey map in my area" and see if there's a map already made. If in moderate or high risk area, you can buy a detector for less than a hundred bucks. Look up Corentium Airthings.
Love the doorbell
Can closed cell foam spray help to protect?
As someone who knows enough about radiation to not be scared any time it is mentioned, how do the levels in bequerels/m³ mentioned in the video translate to µS/hr?
High Radon levels have also been known to cause infestations of the micro-snipe bug. Make sure you ask them to check for those as well.
I love Colin’s laugh when he said you might need to fill it in I hope Colin mentions this video in future updates I hope he passes all test
I learned about radon in school I was building houses in Ireland 25 years ago and we always put down a red radon barrier under the sub floor they don't do in that in the UK
I was wondering when this was going to come up for Colin. It's pretty common up here in Canada, so we tend to keep our basements well ventilated. Well, the ones who are aware that is.
The annoying thing about radon is you can't see it. And those measurements takes ages. By the time you get a reading you're already panicking in case it's high.
I know it's not too worrisome with a reading of 200-300 for a few months but it's like everything else that increases risk; It doesn't hurt to reduce it if you can.
In my case I had a gap between the concrete floor and the foundation wall in basement (very old house, no barrier) and it was sucking air in from under the foundation. Taking care of that reduced radon in the rest of the house by 2/3 ! For peace of mind I got an AirThings View+ so I can see plots of daily, weekly, monthly and it's staggering how little was needed to improve it.
Wow I had no idea how common it was. I live in Australia, luckily my area is low risk. But still there. Good luck with your testing, hoping your levels are safe.
Yes yes yes…so very common… like not an issue till like 30 years ago. Here in the USA in the mid 90’s lots of money spent on studies and companies, governments came out and try to scare people with it. It’s all about money, companies found they could make money with it. And yes I built 72 houses from 1996-2011. Question to ask yourself why does it take 3 months to do a test… air out your house, keep the moisture down, run a dehumidifier. In the USA: 1: cigarette smoking, 2. Pipe and cigar smoking, 3 passive or second-hand smoke, 4 asbestos, 5. Radon Gas, 6. Genetics, 7. Lung disease, 8. Air pollution, 9. Previous Lung Cancer, 10. Ingesting Arsenic. So you decide…. But to me it’s about creating fear and making money. 80% of lung cancer is caused by smoking. But you decide…..
I bet they get a glowing review from Colin.
Thanks for the head's up. I live near a quarry, and checking the map, it does show as high for Radon. Luckily, it's far enough away from me not to concern me. Looking around Stamford heck, it's all a bit purple.
Here in Finland radon is taken in to account every time a new building is being planned. Usyally on high risk areas a set of pipes with holes are buried under the house and then you have a motor on the roof that sucks air out of the pipes below your house to lower the level of radon gas inside the house.
Great video! Really enjoyed that!
I actually worked somewhere where we made parts of radon detectors, and the company moved to a building specially engineered to keep radon out and ventilate it away so it didn't contaminate the detectors. The trick with radon, though it isn't 100% positive one way or the other, is if you're dealing with limestone assume there's lots of it, there's a reason they correlate on the national maps, and of course Colin has been dealing with nothing but limestone which is presumably why people were screeching. Miners deal with it all the time, where it becomes a Big Deal - you can actually deal with it to a decent extent with ventilation, one of the benefits of it being a gas, but it decays to radioactive lead and bismuth and that's the real issue with it that people don't generally understand.
So now in a place with condensation problems you have to pump in outside air. Here in the us we put daylight drains in under concrete for the gas to escape.
The things I learn on this channel, 😮 I felt so uneducated before I discovered Colin.
Colin is LEGEND🤠
Never heard of it over here in NZ. I thought these lads were going to move Colin’s gas pipe above the garage haha.
Learn something every day ah.
We had our basement radon proofed. They installed an extractor fan through the foundation and it runs 24/7. I'm still alive 18 years later.
So what your saying is indeed a rubberized lead based layer inside of the concrete. To create a both an airtight, radiation proof bunker?
They'd make a cute couple - lovely guys they are. Now Collin - about filling your bunker and tunnel with concrete!!! lol
@colinfurze parts of this, and the results, would be bloody good at some point on your main channel 🙂
Good plug, genius move
What's with the results?
Needs a radon safety tie!!!
WHAT WAS THE RESULTS OF THE RADON TEST ? ? ( it has been several months when the test takes 3 months )
Back up video ?
@@svencorbyuk we are still waiting for the monitors to be sent back to us from Colin, as you can imagine he’s a very busy man!
That test is minimum 90 days but can stay for up to a year. As soon as we have an update we will be posting 👍🏼
Glad he took my advice.
lots of us mentioned it.
That video was a gas, keep it up Colin. Knowing you if you had Radon you would be bottling it and finding a good use for the product.
I've never even considered Radon gas exposure here in Australia, but apparently it's super low and upon checking my area tested at 5 Bq/m3
I live in South Lake Tahoe, CA. It's a very big deal here but there still needs to be more awareness.
Nice one ! I didn't even know about this, thanks for doing the video and thanks for looking after Colin.
Right person for marketing :)