You are never going to properly deal with this problem by making your house even more leaky than it already is. It's a band-aid fix. You probably wouldn't ever be able to get the house to radon levels that would allow you to sell it much less live in it safely. I hate to be the bearer of bad news but the only way to solve this problem is to seal up those sumps (not a large or complicated job) and install a radon stack. You can probably hire someone to do it for you. In western MA radon remediation usually costs a little over $1,000 and it comes with a guarantee. They should take care of everything. Or you can DIY pretty easily. The problem is under your basement, not in your basement. Ventilation is great but you already have more than enough down there if there are no CO issues surrounding your atmospheric pressure boiler. Gadgets are cool and HRV's are no exception to this but you need to use the proper gadget for the job, and in this case that gadget is a radon stack..... or two.
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