Protect your children and your family from the second-leading cause of lung cancer. Test your home for radon today!

Testing your home for radon is simple. The Healthy Homes Coalition can provide you with a simple test kit to see if you have radon in your home. FREE test kits are available for a limited time to families who meet the following qualifications:

• Own their home
• Live in the City of Grand Rapids
• Are low income (at or below 80% of area median income)
• Have a child age five or younger or a pregnant woman living in the home.

If you rent your home or do not meet any of these qualification, Healthy Homes also has do-it-yourself test kits for $5.00.

Or, if you'd like to order your test kit online, you can order one from the Air Check, Inc. partnership with the Michigan Department of Environmental Quality by clicking here.  Kits through this partnership cost $6.95.

Testing Season

Radon testing requires that the home be closed throughout the test period. This means that all windows need to be kept closed while testing, so we recommend testing during the winter months.

The Healthy Homes Coalition offers radon testing services from October 15 through May 15.    We will, however, conduct radon testing for day care licensing year round to assist providers with complying with State law.

Confirmation Testing

Healthy Homes can also assist parents with re-testing their homes to confirm previous test results. Sometimes radon test results come back close to the safety level recommended by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, and parents just want to be sure. Healthy Homes can assist with follow-up testing using both short-term (3-7 day) kits and long-term (one-year) kits.

To get your home tested, contact the Healthy Homes Coalition at (616) 241-3300.