Illinois radon mitigation license RNM2018212. Homer Glen, Will County.
Radon mitigation in Homer Glen
Homer Glen is Will County, and the Will County Health Department’s $8 radon kit is the cheap test: lab fee and report included, sold at the Joliet, Bolingbrook, and Monee offices. Larger Homer Glen homes with more than one lower level are a good fit for a reusable detector, which you can move from room to room.
Text Bill the number and he’ll tell you what it means, free. If it is high, Bill comes out, looks at the slab, the sump, and any crawl space, and gives you the price. On a big footprint the fan location and the discharge get extra attention.
Larger homes, same gas
Homer Glen homes are often larger, with more than one obvious place for a fan. The suction point still depends on the slab, the sump, and any crawl space. A bigger footprint is a routing problem, not a different gas, and quiet operation and the discharge location get more attention than on a smaller home.
Two Homer Glen installs from our notes
One Homer Glen job went on the back corner of the home, where the fan and the pipe stay out of sight from the street. Another ran the pipe through a finished basement, which means planning the route around drywall and trim before the first hole. Both are ordinary Homer Glen work, and both started with Bill walking the home to find the route the homeowner could live with.
Homer Glen’s 673 tests, all Will County
Every Homer Glen record in the IEMA filter is Will County. There are 673 valid tests with no mitigation system noted, as of our 14 October 2026 count. The median is 3.4 pCi/L, and 43.2% were at or above 4.0.
Will County overall is a median of 3.5 and 44.9% at or above 4.0, from 27,611 tests, so Homer Glen sits just under the county on both figures. Lockport, the next town west, has a median of 3.5 from 880 tests. The two are close, and they are not the same page.
A bit over two in five
Homer Glen tracks its county closely: a bit over two of every five tests at or above 4.0, against about nine in twenty for Will County. The 3.4 median sits in the band where EPA says to consider a fix, and about three in seven homes in the file were past the line where EPA says to fix. For a town of larger homes, that is a lot of square footage over soil nobody has measured yet.
Nearby pages
Homer Glen neighbors on this site:
Homer Glen questions
Were any Homer Glen tests in this set filed in Cook County?
Not in this filter. All 673 valid tests with no mitigation system recorded were Will County. If your parcel is in another county, use that county’s kit and tell Bill when you text.
Is 3.4 pCi/L high enough to fix?
3.4 is the median of those 673 tests, and it sits in the range where EPA says to consider a fix. 43.2% of the tests were at or above 4.0, where EPA recommends fixing. Your test decides, not the median.
Do larger Homer Glen homes need a different approach?
The science is the same, but the routing details change. Larger footprints and custom layouts often need more attention to fan placement, discharge location, and keeping finished spaces undisturbed.
Where can I get a radon test kit in Homer Glen?
Buy the $8 Will County kit at the health department office in Joliet, Bolingbrook, or Monee. The lab fee and the report are in the $8. If you want a running number in a big home, a detector moves from room to room.
Does Bill need to come inside for the look?
Yes. He needs to see the lower level to price the job, and it does not take long.
Sources
- IEMA-OHS Public Radon Dashboard
Homer Glen, counted 14 October 2026: 673 valid tests, all Will County in this filter, median 3.4, 43.2% at or above 4.0. No mitigation system on these records.
- IEMA-OHS, Radon in Illinois
The IEMA radon page behind the dashboard figures for Homer Glen.
- Will County Health Department, radon program
Homer Glen’s $8 kit, from the Will County Health Department.
- EPA, radon action level
EPA’s guidance on 4.0 pCi/L and on results between 2 and 4.