Roughly one in five residential buildings in Canada has high radon levels — a figure that’s more than doubled since the late 2000s — while radon-induced lung cancer kills an estimated 3,200 people each year, federal figures show.

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    3 days ago

    I’m in the same boat.

    Does your province have any grants for installs? The grant process in BC is a nightmare.

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      We moved into a new build, so the builder is eating that cost as part of the Tarion program in Ontario, but we paid for the lab test. Thankfully our builder included a soil pipe as part of the new construction before the new building code update came into effect.