Radon Challenges – Gnarly Tales from the Field

(214 customer reviews)

$225.00

This course explores techniques for going a little deeper in interpreting measurements as well as how to mitigate those tough houses with inaccessible crawlspaces, buried return ducts, and other crazy construction practices that make our lives interesting. We delve into these topics using real life case studies that have happy endings. These are more than a series of Fractured Fairy Tales. We explore a process for assessing unique situations you can use in the future. This course is designed for both the seasoned professional who has seen a thing or two and the novice who will eventually encounter these types of situations.

SKU: C-16-109 Category: Certified By:

Description

This course addresses unique challenges to the radon professional including:

  • Buried Return Ducts
  • Untreated Adjacent Foundations
  • Wind Spikes
  • Working with Tight Soils
  • Highly Permeable Soils
  • Leaky Forced Air Ductwork
  • Inaccessible Crawlspaces
  • Emanation from Contaminated Building Materials
  • In-Floor Heating Systems
  • Post Tension Slabs

This course goes beyond simply identifying these concerns but actually presents solutions using real life case studies.  It also demonstrates the use of diagnostic equipment to aid one in identifying a problem and provides downloadable tools that the student can use for estimating pressure drop in mitigation systems, air flow as well as the significance of a radon emanation source.

Recorded with a live audience, the virtual student benefits from the formal instruction and contributions from the seasoned professionals who participated.

The format of the course combines video of presenter and attendees synchronized with powerpoint slides for an experience comparable to being “in the classroom” without the hassle, which has become a hallmark for CERTI courses.

Course Includes:

  • Video (can be paused and navigated via Table of Contents or Key Word Search)
  • Online Quizzes
  • Downloadable Course Certificate
  • 16 CE Credits  (Category 1)

Download/Streaming – No course materials will be shipped – everything you need is available to access and download online.

Additional information

CE Credits

16

214 reviews for Radon Challenges – Gnarly Tales from the Field

  2. Stephen –

    Good Course.

  3. Wayne –

    Enjoyed seeing difficult mitigations and how to overcome them.

  4. vaughn –

    Overall, informative and helpfull

  5. Kenneth –

    Great trial and error information from the field.

  6. Paul –

    Get courses at Certi! I send all techs and inspectors to Certi for Continuing Ed.

  7. Luke –

    Can’t figure out how to download the mobile app

  8. Evan –

    I enjoyed learning about the difficult to mitigate homes.

  9. Phil –

    Good course

  10. Jay –

    You don’t need this material every day, but when you do, it is invaluable!

  11. josh –

    was good. a little more variety would have been helpful

  13. Marc –

    useful information

  14. Gregory –

    The course is a nice refresher of issues that have arisen and will certainly show up in the future. It’s good to have a reminder of how to deal with certain situations.

  15. donald –

    It’s a course for mitigators not testers. CE for a tester was poor.

  17. Michael –

    The course is taught by a very knowledgeable instructor of real to life situations and by someone whose heart and love of radon mitigation is evident.

  19. Kevin –

    Great course. It takes a minute to wrap your head around it. However very helpful!

  20. Ronald –

    Very convenient to use with iPad.

  21. Brian –

    This course addressed many aspects of what we encounter and challenges we face.

  23. Shane –

    The course is great how it is.

  24. Kenneth –

    Some review, the new information was interesting

  25. Hollis –

    Doug clearly knows his subject and presents well!

  27. Kenneth –

    Quiz questions were sometimes misleading, e.g., Quiz 3, Q7. It asked about crawlspace depressurization system so assumed it was decied that a CMD system was not a consideration.

  29. Lee –

    i liked the instructor

  30. Glenn –

    It was an interesting course. The content provided valuable in-site into evaluating mitigation systems.

  31. Dakota –

    Was a very educational course, explaining some of the problems I, myself have ran into, and how to proceed.

  32. Jessica –

    Conversations kept me engaged

  34. Joshua –

    As usual really great information. A lot of technical information and how to diagnose a system for optimum performance

  35. Jeffrey –

    It was good.

  36. Anthony –

    Very informative and helpful. Will come in handy in the future.

  41. Zack –

    This course has helped in my business and in my relations with clients and employees.

  42. Stephen –

    I have only been mitigating for two years now, still learning. I learned so much from this class and it reinforced some other things for me. Highly recommend it.

  44. Marcus –

    It was helpful hearing about problems other contractors found out in the field.

  49. Jerry –

    The best course I have ever taken!

  50. Corey –

    Great, refreshing course!

  51. Daniel –

    Great format and superb content. Very helpful!

  52. Shane –

    Excellent course.

  53. Nathan –

    Another great course. Doug always makes learning fun and memorable.

  54. Brian –

    I recommend

  55. Craig –

    have taken many ce courses over the years, but this one was interesting and quite useful

  56. Daniel –

    I recommend this course 5/5

  57. Jerry –

    Very knowledgeable with stories from the field that helps understand what can happen in the field. Doug is always willing to offer some advice when needed

  58. Ken –

    well done

  59. James –

    great course, thank you.

  60. Justin –

    I recommend 5/5

  61. Daniel –

    5/5 I recommend this course

  62. JOHN –

    all good

  63. Carlos –

    Keep up the great work!

  64. Matthew –

    I recommend this course

  65. Michael –

    I recommend 5/5

  66. Matthew –

    I recommend this course 5/5

  67. Peggy –

    Helpful

  68. Josh –

    I recommend 5/5

  69. Jamie –

    Gives great examples for how to critically think through problems with radon reduction.

  70. Tom –

    This course has value for a mitigator or a measurement tech who wants a better understanding of the the challenges of radon mitigation under extra ordinary circumstances. I thought is was great! Thanks you.

  71. Fernando –

    I recommend 5/5

  72. Kathleen –

    I recommend 5/5

  73. Daniel –

    Great! Covered many topics not generally covered in these courses

  74. Rodney –

    I recommend

  75. Ryan –

    Doug referred me to this course and its helpful to have this material for future purposes

  76. michael –

    good

  77. John –

    Very well organized and presented as all Certi courses are and gives radon professionals the information needed to resolve many difficult radon mitigation situations.

  78. Paul –

    I indeed recommend this course

  79. Kevin –

    Really good course!!

  80. James –

    Very informative

  81. Janryk –

    Even after 30yrs in the business, this class was still interesting and informative!

  82. William –

    loved it

  83. David –

    Lots of good information. Easy to follow along with Mr. Kladder.

  84. Richard –

    very happy with the course

  85. murray –

    I recommend

  86. David –

    Content and relevancy of topic to real life were the strong points. Sound quality was questionable at times mostly when Doug got input from the students. Would recommend this to any radon professional and a must to mitigators. Should help any mitigator with his or her business when encountering tough situations in the field.

  87. Brian –

    I recommend this course

  88. Thomas –

    Lots of good knowledge.

  89. Byron –

    This was much more needed practical knowledge than others that I have taken which focus on the detailed science

  90. Ron –

    I recommend this course

  91. Joseph –

    Courses are informational.

  92. David –

    I recommend tis course

  93. A. –

    keep up the good work. have used you for years and am always satisfied

  94. Paul –

    Interesting, hope we don’t run into too many of these

  95. George –

    I recommend 5/5

  96. Tom –

    I recommend this course 5/5

  97. Derek –

    very practical

  98. Jeffrey –

    great course

  99. Dominic –

    I recommend 5 out of 5

  100. Ben –

    I recommend this course

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