Beginning July 1, Colorado will have specific testing requirements.
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Thanks Lon. I just started a re-training course last night so I can take the test again and hopefully get my license in time for the deadline on this project. Hopefully the bureaucracy doesn’t get bogged down with all the new license applications coming in. Just kidding, it will be a mess.
I just received my Colorado license. #28, 
It will be interesting to see how many HIs jump through the hoops and shell out the cash for it. I am hearing from quite a few HIs that are not going to get the license. This may turn out to be the rare instance where licensing actually results in fewer people providing the service.
It cost me $1200 for the NRPP certification hurdles and the state license. 
Luckily, InterNACHI’s NRPP approved course is part of our membership fee.
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Hopefully the $99 radon guys raise their rates.
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Same situation for myself in Minnesota. I’ve been providing Radon testing for about 12 years in MN, until (a few years ago) it became regulated and a License (and all the BS that goes with it) was required. I evaluated the situation, weighed the Pro’s and Con’s, and decided it was not in my companies best interests to continue providing the service. It was never well received before licensing, and even though I knew there would be a spike in requests from agents due to the new law and agent requirements, it lasted about a year. HI’s performing testing dropped in half, and prices jumped by 50-150%!! The cheap guys are at $150 and the quality guys are about $250 within a 25 mile radius only! I still get requests from the agents in a pinch that didn’t drop me because I no longer test, but overall I rarely even get any requests at all. I now team up with a guy that will travel anywhere in the state for me at a flat rate of $150 per test… travel included!
Seriously, I wonder if those guys have ever done the math on that. I never charged that little. For years I did radon testing more as a service than a money maker at $140. With the miles that I often drive, (yesterday, 109 miles roundtrip for nothing but picking up a radon test) factoring gas costs and time, I was often making about $20/hour with a radon test. Several years ago I raised my radon test fee to $170 with zero push back. With the costs of licensing, I will certainly go up. Getting licensed is expensive and I have no reason to think, that I will get an extra radon test because of it. I decided to do it and evaluate whether it is worth it at the end of the two year license period.
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What’s crazy is that there is an outfit about halfway between you and I that charges only $15 more than that for an entire inspection! I can’t imagine they charge any more than $50 for a radon test, lol.
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Are you sure they’re even licensed?
I can’t tell you how often I walk into a home when a Radon test is in progress. I ALWAYS take a photo of the test and the CRM’s Info plate/sticker. I would say at least 25% of the time the calibration is expired, by usually about 1-2 years. I actually found one expired by about 7 years!!
Ironically, I looked up the testing companies name on the State website, and he actually lived across the street. I was so tempted to walk over there and “inquire” wtf he was doing charging my client for his crap CRM. I really wanted to turn his ass in to the Sate! (Yes, he had a valid license)!!
Note: I did include a photo of the Data plate in my report for my client to do as they pleased with the info.
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Not sure. Later today I’ll find their website again. I don’t remember if they even offer radon but with entire home inspection priced at $265, if they do offer radon, it has to be cheap!
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I’m curious to know who it is and if I know them. A lot of lowballers out there. Sometimes I am shocked of who they are, as in person they come off as a complete opposite.
I guess everyone has their secrets!
It’s been a while since my last post on this subject so I thought I’d update the community on my experience with the test I cited in May last year.
Colorado required Radon Professionals to meet certain licensing requirements starting in July 2022, right before I had to do the large test project. So, I also had to take an approved Prep Course (which was Corentium’s course and it was almost useless and totally skewed toward using their machines, which I do.) I eventually just studied on my own and took the exam, got my NRPP Cert, and forked over the 450.00 for a Colorado State License from DORA just in time to do the project. Round trip total costs were about 1000 clams. Luckily I work for a large national inspection company and they reimbursed me for all expenses, and they supplied me with as many Corentium Pro CRMs that I needed. In the 41 Unit complex with a community center, following the standard, I ended up doing 31 tests total. That included testing all ground units and doing 10% duplicates of those units, and I tested at least 1 or 10% of the second floor units. I may have had to do 10% dupes for the 2nd floor units, but I forget now.
There is an app on my phone that connects with the Corentium units that makes the process very easy and simple and uses a variety of templates to produce reports and send them from the phone. One cool feature is that you can set a time delay for the test to start for as many hours as you want.
That said, those CRMs are very pricey and retail for close to 1000 bucks. I had about 12 units to work with, so had to do the testing in 3 cycles over 2 long weekends.
If I didn’t have access to those units from my company I would definitely use the charcoal units and use the chain of custody format that was previously mentioned.
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