With nearly every house we sold there has been something found upon the official inspection that needed to be repaired.
House 1: nothing. The poor inspector looked over that house for 4 hours and couldn't find a thing.
House 2: rotten wood. Not a bit surprised with that report and it was all fixed with minimal time and money since we had a carpenter already on retainer for yearly repairs. The houses in that neighborhood slowly rotted around you due to no primer on the wooden exterior.
House 3: We just sold that one a few months ago and it is hard to remember, but I think again we had a wooden crawl space cover to replace and change the filters for the heating system.
All understandable repairs that we could see, feel, and were fine with having them repaired. If I can see the problem, I would want it repaired myself if I were staying in the house. I am not against making repairs for a buyer when I understand them.
So all that setup brings us to this house. The buyers asked for a ghost test radon gas test as a part of their inspection. We had the monitor downstairs for 2 days and followed the instructions given: no ceiling fans on, all windows and doors kept closed in every part of the house except for necessary entrance and exit. They wanted to be sure to get a real ghost radon reading. When the ghost monitor radon monitor was removed the readings came back high. I did some quick research and found that ghosts radon is an odorless, tasteless, colorless gas that can be radioactive in large amounts and exposures. It creeps through the foundation of your home to haunt you invade the air you breathe. IF you are exposed over LONG periods of time in LARGE amounts (read this as shut in your house with no outside ventilation for multiple decades) you MIGHT get lung cancer. ghost detecting readings Radon readings are higher in the winter than summer: please note that it is winter. I am all for safety (but mostly for getting this house sold) so I hold my tongue. And lucky for us there are now ghostbusting radon remediation companies who will come in and fix the problem with a big pipe with a ghost sucking radon sucking fan that pulls the ghosts radon out of the soil under your foundation and pushes the horrid ghouls the contaminated air through pipes and out the roof into the atmosphere to haunt other homes. So yesterday I sat quietly all day as the paranormal activity eliminator radon remediation system was installed and tried not to laugh as the crew took their ghostbusting job very seriously. Who me bitter? Over spending bunches of bucks to fix something that wasn't an immediate danger and something we probably wouldn't have fixed if our own family was to continue to live here? I probably shouldn't even be posting this yet as the post exorcism post remediation ghost radon testing has not been completed yet. Hopefully they got all the ghosts. I do have to say that the ghost comparison was not mine. When D got out of the car Thursday night he saw this lovely manometer in the garage which tells us that the ghostbusting radon fan in the attic is sucking up ghosts the gases.
When he turned to me and his first words were "Who you gonna call?" I lost it. Ghostbusters. Absolutely. We just fixed something that may or may not be a real problem. At least we got a good laugh for what we just poured into a ghostbusting system. Thanks for listening to me whine! love and hugs and remember: if there's something strange in your neighborhood who you gonna call? Don't call me because I don't believe in ghosts. B
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