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Crawl Spaces under homes can create enormous headaches for homeowners. Why?
- The earth has very high humidity in the soil. This water vapor moves easily from the ground into the crawl space and then upward into the house environment. Expensive conditioned air can leak out from uninsulated rim joists.
 A damp crawl space environment is destructive to your home. Wood starts to decay, rot and loses its strength causing structural damage. This can create an expensive, dangerous condition. - Damp environments are ideal living spaces for insects and rodents. With prolonged inhabitation they can leave droppings and waste that affect your living environment.
How does this all of this affect the inside of your home?
- The natural airflow in a house is from bottom to top, sucking the moist air and everything in it up into the living areas of the home. As this unsafe air moves into the home, conditioned air (either heated or cooled air) leaves the home. In addition to bringing in unsafe air, this airflow wastes energy by losing air that has already been conditioned.
Contact us to learn more about crawl space encapsulation.
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