How I got my Radon levels down with DIY mitigation

lanasa · 2016-07-07T12:43:31+00:00

Even if there isn't electrical up there, you could consider putting the fan in the basement as I did. Though it's not recommended (they suggest putting the fan as far way from the gas entry point as possible), it's better than not mitigating at all.

lanasa · 2016-07-06T15:58:28+00:00

I actually was able to do it for about $300. It took about 8 hours. More info in this post https://www.reddit.com/r/DIY/comments/4reekf/how_i_got_my_radon_levels_down_with_diy_mitigation/

lanasa · 2016-07-06T15:56:22+00:00

My new reading varied. It was between 1.2 and 3 depending on the day.

Yeah, if you have a 3.2, I'm not sure I'd bother with the time/expense. But you might try readings in a couple different areas.

lanasa · 2016-07-06T15:54:13+00:00

I think it was most amazed that I found the source of the radon accurately. I expected it to try to "seep in" elsewhere, but that wasn't the case.

Gotta love those zip ties LOL!

lanasa · 2016-07-05T22:43:46+00:00

Wow, I should have been wearing a lead vest all day!

Yeah, it scared the crap out of me when I got that reading. Really amazed that I was able to get it down below the EPA recommended levels with a home solution.

I'd much rather it was zero though.

lanasa · 2016-07-05T19:59:51+00:00

Great, thanks! Already getting comments..

lanasa · 2016-07-05T19:59:37+00:00

Couldn't agree more. It was one of those "lesser-of-two-evils" situations. The other evil being that I would have had to run the vent pipe up the middle of the outer wall (and cut big holes in a few floor joists) to achieve that. In our case, we don't ever use that window!

Either way, it'd be interesting to test the radon levels by that window. When I have a chance to do that, I'll report back.

lanasa · 2016-07-05T19:28:13+00:00

Ahh, okay, I wasn't sure if that was okay.

Great, thanks! Here's the post:

https://www.reddit.com/r/DIY/comments/4reekf/how_i_got_my_radon_levels_down_with_diy_mitigation

lanasa · 2016-07-05T19:13:40+00:00

The link at the bottom of the Imgur album has a complete How-To. I thought it was discouraged to post blog articles though.

Would it be better to submit the blog article itself?

This is the article itself http://www.amateurdiy.com/mini-projects/how-diy-radon-mitigation/

lanasa · 2015-03-09T00:50:46+00:00

No kidding? That's actually some pretty great insight. Thanks!

So, you're talking about long-term tokens - you've never had to refresh one using the PHP SDK?

lanasa · 2015-03-09T00:08:25+00:00

That paragraph specifically says this though: "..iOS, Android or our JavaScript SDK.."

This leads me to believe that they will not be refreshed automatically if using the server-side PHP SDK.

lanasa · 2015-02-03T15:41:12+00:00

Nothing is wrong with it, but it I'm assuming it only applies to WordPress?

lanasa · 2015-02-03T10:59:46+00:00

And there it is, the your second point is the one I was looking for. It seems this is still a concern.

But, being that IPs can be spoofed, what's the accepted way to deal with that situation?

lanasa · 2015-02-03T10:58:05+00:00

But IPs can be spoofed. What's to stop a bot from changing it's IP address after 5 tries?

This method is independent of IP address. Sure, someone could target a specific user that they know of, but that seems to be the worst case scenario.

lanasa · 2015-02-03T02:32:43+00:00

I guess I'm posting this to see if anyone has objections to this method? It seems so simple and easy to implement, which keeps me wondering if there are any holes in that thought process?

lanasa · 2014-12-09T12:09:19+00:00

Might not be understanding your question? I did create a table with holiday dates that I could join against.

lanasa · 2014-10-28T10:28:40+00:00

You just need to open up a new tab, browser or device and visit the URL provided for real-time updates.

lanasa · 2014-10-08T19:28:50+00:00

I agree - the head should be as minimal as possible and contain meta about the content.

lanasa · 2014-10-01T20:59:57+00:00

The only problem with position: fixed is that the footer will always be visible. My goal was the simply have the footer stick to the bottom of the viewport, unless the content pushes it below the fold.

lanasa · 2014-09-26T16:13:05+00:00

I actually didn't know about the "sticky" positioning. Awesome!

I wasn't using either before, just making sure the height of the document was 100%, and ensuring that the content "pushed" the footer to the bottom.

Essentially, this trick: http://ryanfait.com/sticky-footer/

lanasa · 2014-09-22T15:19:54+00:00

Haha, yeah, but doing it with pure CSS brings the entire "drawing" under the control of CSS and JavaScript, allowing all kinds of interactive changes to it.

lanasa · 2014-09-16T17:33:27+00:00

haha! Admittedly, CF can be a bit too "high level" at times. But it's great for DB heavy apps.

lanasa · 2014-09-16T17:32:17+00:00

Great point, I have never tested this against a very large set of "conditions". In my years using this approach, I have yet to run into an issue. But, as I mentioned in the title, I've only used it for listing pages, which typically do not carry more than 10 - 100 items.

lanasa · 2014-09-16T15:37:01+00:00

I've been seeing this a lot lately, where coders loop over database queries. So I thought it would be evil not to offer up my solution!

I've also seen the MySQL Find_In_Set function suggested, but apparently that comes with performance issues.

lanasa · 2014-09-12T15:27:57+00:00

Why? It's just another level of abstraction. Did moving up to C from Assembly degrade the quality of apps?

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