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If you buy the property, consider getting heavy curtains. Either purchase or make them. Additional insulation on windows in any home (but especially Earth sheltered homes with lots of window real estate) will benefit. Pull them closed on nights when you are heating the home. Or during the day (if you aren't around/using the room) when it's hot out. It can make a several degree difference. I toured a home in SW Wisconsin, near UWP, and they said adding heavy, quilt-like shades allowed the house to warm the master bedroom as well as the rest of the house. Prior, it was several degrees cooler in the winter. Radon should not be a problem in Wisconsin. It is in parts of Northern Alabama, particularly where it's mountainous. Radon can typically be remedied with better airflow turnover rates. The building I work in (in Northern Alabama) was found to have a radon problem-- in the basement only, on Mondays and early Tuesdays only. The reason was that the AC/airflow was turned off on the weekend and radon levels would build all weekend until the air turned back on Monday morning. It was Tuesday around noon before radon levels were back around "acceptable", and continued to fall until the air turned off on Friday. The remedy was to run the air full blast 24/7/365. This resulted in near unregisterable levels of radon in the basement. |
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