• Alex@lemmy.ml
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    6 days ago

    With the recent heat waves we’ve been having it’s nice to visit the cellar for a few minutes of cooling down. Of course I can’t stay too long because of the radon.

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      6 days ago

      Go diy a radon remover, 3in PVC and a centrifugal fan. Just get it as low as you can to the floor. No reason to get a real system unless you are gonna live there. Any abatement helps.

      Edit: If its a dirt floor then it might not help.

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        6 days ago

        I was slightly exaggerating for comic effect. I do have an extractor fan on a timer which stops build ups. It’s definitely not rated for human habitation but the servers are quite happy there 😉

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        6 days ago

        That reminds me: I un-vented my crawlspace not too long ago, so now I ought to check it for radon.

    • Echo Dot@feddit.uk
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      6 days ago

      My grandparents used to have an air raid shelter in their garden, you could use it to freeze water in the height of summer.

      Although I wouldn’t recommend storing food down there because it was always damp, and full of spiders. I don’t particularly mind spiders but I don’t want to accidentally eat them.