Going down the steps to the dark basement in the middle of the night, only to have your toes submerge into a cold body of water when you reach the bottom of the stairs in one of every homeowner’s worst nightmares. And for many people, this nightmare becomes a reality at least once or twice […]

Restoration companies like ours are often called upon to removed odors from pets or smoke that have been imbedded in the walls and carpets of a property. Most members of the public know that one method of accomplishing this is to use OZONE, but few understand what OZONE is and how it works. You may […]

Not exactly. For starters, radon is a gas and radium is a solid. Radium is produced by the natural decay of uranium, a radioactive element found in nature in low quantities. This uranium-238, to be precise, produces radium-226. Then, during the decay process, alpha particles start to be emitted, turning the radium into radon-222. These […]

Real Estate season is in full swing, and it seems like everyone has the home buying and selling bug. That is great news for all of us. And while the money and confidence might be flowing, there are still challenges that realtors run into that cause them to have to give us a call, to […]

Radon was discovered by Friedrich Ernst Dorn, a German chemist, in 1900 while studying radium’s decay chain. Originally named niton after the Latin word for shining, nitens, radon has been known as radon since 1923. Today, radon is still primarily obtained through the decay of radium. Radium was of course discovered two years earlier by the […]

One of the most common things we hear when a mold job is called in is, “It’s so weird that it came back. I put bleach on it last time. I must have missed a spot.” It would seem that bleach would be a natural thing to reach for when dealing with mold, but counterintuitively, […]

Department of Public Health & Environment concerning Radon