Kidde 442020 Radon Gas Detection Test Kit
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Tools and Hardware Reviews of Kidde 442020 Radon Gas Detection Test Kit
Customer Review: Recommend this kit
Summary: 5 Stars
Couldn't find one locally, so glad to find a reasonable one on Amazon. The purchase price included the mail-in lab testing, which is not always the case. We just placed the tray (about the size of a slice of bread) for 48 hours as instructed in the area of concern, and mailed it back to them in the sleeve they sent. The contents of the tray seemed to be bits of charcoal. Something I did not know prior to the test is there is no way to get official results without going through a lab, and labs are accredited by the US and presumably must submit their results. Law here (and perhaps elsewhere) forces home owners to divulge the results of a test upon a sale, so I was nervous about the test for various reasons. We had become alarmed about Radon due to a recent article in the WALL STREET JOURNAL. Upon further reading, however, it turns out that while Radon is a very serious problem and health risk, there is some political baggage attached to its danger -- the left seems to want to ignore it because there is no one to sue, and the right seems to want to publicize it because the danger is not coming from big corporate -- if i may be so crude as to abbreviate it that clumsily. Books have been written about the subject from both sides. Obviously, there is a lot more to it, but the whole matter unnerved me. And, I was further amazed to learn, by looking at the online US gov danger zone map, that the residents of NYC, which we are, are in less danger than, say, upstate NY residents. (Radon comes from the ground.) But to get to the end of this review, and here it is, our result under the level of any sort of concern, and this test was easy, fast and cheap.Customer Review: Send in got results
Summary: 5 Stars
I followed the instructions sent it in and got results.
Just as stated.
No problem.
Customer Review: WOW, what a rip-off!
Summary: 1 Stars
Seems like a good deal at first - but after paying for the test, $20 for priority shipping, and the $10 "Expidite" fee, SIX days later (and a missed real estate transaction deadline!) and they STILL don't recognize our test kit number when we call, even though I have delivery confirmation and a signature from someone who received it. NO RESULTS, NO EXPLANATION.
The "Kidde" website has no mention of radon test kits anywhere. If you do manage to find the website where you can input the kit number, it's under an entirely different company name, "Dr. Home Air," which is different again from the company name in the mailing address! It's entirely shady.
If I could have given them zero stars, I would have. Learn from my fail, and hire yourself a professional from the beginning.
Customer Review: What a RipOff
Summary: 1 Stars
I paid the money, followed directions to the T, even sent it Priority Mail, but never received the results. This was a year ago, and nothing. What a waste of my time and money.
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