However, people in the Northeast receive up to 1700 mrem per year, mostly due to radon that is natural to rocks and soil. Is 1700 mrem safe? Take a look at the sidebar to see. So what do you do if you're exposed? Find out on the next page. Radiation Exposure Dosage Chart: ...
After testing 25+ of the best home alarm systems in the UK and evaluating over... By Rebecca Edwards 12/05/2024 The Best Home Security Systems and Alarm Companies of 2024 After thousands of hours of tests and research, we picked Vivint and SimpliSafe as the... ...
Rebecca is the lead safety reporter and in-house expert for SafeWise.com. She has been a journalist and blogger for over 25 years, with a focus on home and community safety for the past decade. Rebecca spends dozens of hours every month poring over crime and safety reports and spotting tr...
and the home inspection cost shouldn't be a deterrent. True, it's a few hundred dollars, but that's a small fraction of the amount you're about to spend on the house, and the inspection is well worth the cost (if nothing else but for the peace of mind). A home inspection...
June 2017: Single board computers provide low-cost solutions to automation and testing. On element14.com a BeagleBone Black Wireless equipped with a DHT22 RH&T sensor has been used to monitor outdoor and indoor temperature and humidity using my formula to enable AH computations to be processed...
the United States Green Building Council (USGBC), the Appraisal Institute, SEEC LLC, Earth Advantage Institute and the Northwest ENERGY STAR Homes program are doing much to highlight the issues and opportunities and improve the education and awareness of the value of green building to the different...
“If you live in a place that has bedrock, like much of the Southwest or New Hampshire, you are at risk for arsenic and also possibly for uranium and radon,” Levin says. But live in an old city like Chicago, where there are more old pipes, and you’re more likely to have lead ...
“If you live in a place that has bedrock, like much of the Southwest or New Hampshire, you are at risk for arsenic and also possibly for uranium and radon,” Levin says. But live in an old city like Chicago, where there are more old pipes, and you’re more likely to have lead ...
R-squared is a measure of how much the interaction of independent factors influences the value of the dependent variable. R-squared has the benefit of a straightforward scale that ranges from 0 to 1. The value of R-squared increases proportionally when the regression model is improved [48]. ...