Pickering radon testing and mitigation
99,200 residents. ~1 in 17 homes test above the Health Canada radon guideline.
Why Pickering homeowners test
Pickering's mature neighbourhoods south of Kingston Road and new developments in Seaton present two different radon profiles. Older homes with cracked slabs, newer homes with tight envelopes.
Our Pickering service
- Testing: $99 (standard) or $399 (real estate)
- Mitigation: $2,800 to $3,800 preliminary estimate 3
- Typical scheduling: within 3-5 business days
- Same-week availability most months
Pickering-specific questions
Do you service all of Pickering including the new Seaton development?
Yes. Every Pickering neighbourhood including West Shore, Bay Ridges, Liverpool, Amberlea, Highbush, Rouge Park, Cherrywood, Brock Ridge, and the rapidly growing Seaton community. Same $99 pricing, no distance surcharge.
Are older Pickering homes south of Kingston Road higher risk?
Generally yes. West Shore, Bay Ridges, and Liverpool include many 1960s to 1980s homes with stone or block foundations, often with finished basements where families spend evenings. These conditions favour radon accumulation. We routinely find higher readings here than in newer Seaton or Brock Ridge homes.
My Pickering home is in Seaton. Does Tarion radon coverage apply?
Almost certainly. Seaton is one of the largest new-home development areas in the GTA, and the vast majority of Seaton homes were sold by builders post-Feb 2021. If your home is within its 7-year Tarion warranty and a C-NRPP certified test shows radon at or above 200 Bq/m³, the builder is required to fund mitigation up to $50,000. The test ($99) is the gateway.
I am near the Pickering nuclear plant. Does that affect radon?
No. Radon is a naturally occurring radioactive gas from uranium decay in soil and bedrock, not from nuclear power generation. The Pickering Nuclear Generating Station has no measurable effect on residential radon levels in its vicinity. Your home's radon depends on local soil composition, foundation type, and ventilation, not proximity to the plant.
About these numbers
Population and home counts come from Statistics Canada's 2021 Census of Population 1 . These are exact figures.
The per-city radon percentage is a synthesis estimate, not a number pulled directly from any single source. We blend three datasets: Health Canada's Cross-Canada Survey of Radon Concentrations in Homes (the 2012 federal baseline) 4 , the University of Calgary's Evict Radon citizen-science mapping project 2 , and Take Action on Radon's aggregated municipal data 5 .
The federal baseline often reports lower above-guideline rates than the newer citizen-science projects. Two reasons: the federal study is now 14+ years old, and the newer citizen-science projects sample more aggressively in homes built under tighter modern building codes (which trap soil gas more effectively than older draftier construction). Where these sources disagree on a specific municipality, our published percentage lands on a working midpoint. So if you click through to the federal survey expecting to find "Pickering 6%" verbatim, you won't. The federal survey may report a lower figure for the same area, and the citizen-science maps often report a higher one. We chose the midpoint because no single source is definitive.
None of this gives you a definitive percentage for your specific home. Two homes on the same street can test 30 Bq/m³ apart. The only reliable answer for your home is a test on that home.
References
- 1.Statistics Canada. Census Profile, 2021 Census of Population↗ (2022)↩
- 2.Evict Radon. Evict Radon National Study↗↩
- 3.Health Canada. Government of Canada Radon Guideline↗↩
- 4.Health Canada. Cross-Canada Survey of Radon Concentrations in Homes: Final Report↗ (2012)↩
- 5.Canadian Association of Radon Scientists and Technologists (CARST). Take Action on Radon↗↩
See our full research bibliography at /sources.