Radon Mitigation in Palisade, CO

Radon Testing & Mitigation for Palisade Homes

Palisade is known for peaches, vineyards, and the wall of the Grand Mesa rising over the orchards — not for radon. But the town sits in the same EPA Radon Zone 1 as the rest of Mesa County, the highest-risk designation on the national map, with a predicted average indoor level above the 4.0 pCi/L action level. Roughly a third of the homes tested locally through the state program come back elevated. The rich orchard soil and river-terrace ground that make Palisade fruit famous sit on the very same uranium-bearing Colorado Plateau rock that produces radon everywhere in the valley.

From our Grand Junction base, Palisade is about 15 minutes east on I-70, following the Colorado River upstream. We're out here often, which makes it easy to line up a test, a quote, or a same-week install — and to work around harvest schedules or a real-estate closing. Palisade's housing runs an unusual range, and that shapes every job: century-old orchard farmhouses with dirt cellars and fieldstone foundations, mid-century homes along Elberta and the town grid, and newer builds spreading toward the river and East Orchard Mesa.

What makes Palisade homes worth testing:

• Old foundations leak gas. Dirt cellars, crawl spaces, and fieldstone or unsealed basements in older farmhouses give soil gas easy paths indoors.
• Same plateau geology. Palisade sits on the uranium-bearing Morrison Formation rock of the Colorado Plateau — uranium decays to radium, then to radon gas.
• River-valley living. Homes tucked against the Colorado River terraces and the base of the Mesa still draw radon up through the slab and soil like anywhere else.

Radon is the second-leading cause of lung cancer overall and the number one cause among people who have never smoked, and statewide the Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment reports that about half of Colorado homes test above the action level. Whether your home predates Prohibition or went up last year, a mitigation system removes that risk permanently for a few thousand dollars.

How We Fix Radon in Palisade

For most Palisade homes the fix is an active sub-slab depressurization (ASD) system: a sealed PVC pipe drawn through the slab or crawl space, an inline fan that runs continuously, and a discharge point above the roofline. The fan keeps the soil under the home at slightly lower pressure than the living space, so radon follows the pipe out instead of collecting indoors. Older farmhouses over crawl spaces or dirt cellars usually call for sub-membrane depressurization instead, sealing the ground with a membrane before drawing the gas out.

Because Palisade homes vary so much, we diagnose each one before quoting. Here's how our core services fit in:

• Radon testing — short- and long-term testing to establish your number, plus post-mitigation verification.
• Mitigation cost — straight answers on what a Palisade system costs and what drives the price.
• Crawl space radon — sub-membrane systems and encapsulation for the dirt cellars and crawl spaces common in older orchard homes.
• System repair & fan replacement — activating passive builder rough-ins and replacing failed fans, any brand.

Every job is handled by licensed Colorado radon professionals, permitted through Mesa County when required, and closed out with a verification test so you have documentation of the before-and-after numbers — useful the day you sell.