Radon Mitigation in Millie Meadows, Rochester MN
Radon work in Millie Meadows, done by people who know the basements.
Millie Meadows is recent enough that most of the basements still look the way the builder left them. That makes a first visit shorter than it would be in older housing, and it makes the radon picture easier to read.
A subdivision of recent builds
A Millie Meadows basement at the time of purchase looks pretty close to a Millie Meadows basement five years later, with the exception of the storage that has accumulated. The slab is flat. The rim joist hasn't been covered over. The vent stub from the passive system is right where the builder put it. There aren't a lot of hidden layers from previous owners.
For homeowners who want to know what's actually going on under their slab, a recent build is the easier starting point. Less archaeology, more straightforward read.
Where we still want to see the basement in person is on the homes where someone has added finished space after the original build. A bedroom suite, a home office, anything where late framing got added on top of the original layout. That kind of change can shift the picture.
Millie Meadows at a glance
South Rochester.
- Era
- Mid-2010s through the present
- Foundations
- Poured concrete with the Minnesota passive radon system built in. Mechanical rooms are tidy and unfinished, and the rim joist is usually still accessible.
- Era
- Mid-2010s through present
- Foundation
- Poured concrete with passive system
- Defining feature
- Unlayered, original-build basements
- Rochester median radon
- 3.2 pCi/L Citywide. Tracts range 2.2–5.3 pCi/L. By-tract view.
- Olmsted Co. ≥ 4 pCi/L
- 42.3% of tested homes MDH, 2014–2023
Three steps. On your timeline.
Measure your radon level.
We start with a measurement of what is actually in the air your family breathes. You see the result we see, and we walk through what it means in plain language.
You see the picture first.
Once you have the result, we talk through what your home is dealing with. No scripts, no pressure. You decide what to do next on your own timeline.
A conversation about your home.
If you want to take action, we look at the basement together and talk through what a plan for your foundation could look like. Every home is its own conversation.
Other Rochester neighborhoods we cover.
Hart Farms and Mayo Woodlands
Most of the homes in Hart Farms and Mayo Woodlands are custom builds, and a custom build doesn't look like the house next door. The walkout, the bonus room over the garage, the slab-on-grade addition. Each of those is its own thing.
Bamber Valley
If your Bamber Valley home was built after June of 2009, the radon prep is already in your slab. Whether or not it's doing what it's supposed to be doing is a different question, and it's the one most owners around here are actually asking.
Manor Woods
Manor Woods and Manor Woods West went up fast, mostly from a small handful of builder packages, and the houses share enough DNA that we usually have a sense of the layout before we pull up to the curb.
Find out your radon levels with a free radon test.
About 42% of tested Olmsted County homes come back above the EPA action level. The surrounding counties are higher. The first step is knowing where yours sits, and that is the part we do for free.