Friday February 8, 2013

 

Crawl space moisture damage Franklin, TN  615-290-2228                          Reeves Crawl Space Services        www.ReevesCrawlSpace.com

 

In several of my last blog entries, I talked a little about crawl space moisture problems and wanted to show you photographs of a job we have completed. The house was a well-built home constructed in the 1980s. It was built with good materials and it was built to code.

 

            It was built on a typical vented crawl space. The crawlspace vents were upgraded with power ventilators to increase air circulation. There has never been a major plumbing leak. Like the crawlspace in your home, this crawlspace is partly below grade. Being below grade, it is naturally cooler than the outside air. Natural convection pulls in the warm, moist air from the outside and draws the air through the floor into the living space, and vents it through the attic – just like a giant venting system. In the summer, if you leave a glass of ice water on your kitchen table, moisture in the warmer surrounding air will condense on the glass, causing it to “sweat”. The exact same thing happened in this crawlspace and could be happening in your crawlspace.

 

These photographs illustrate the effects on condensation on your home. Floor joists and floor underlayment are saturated with water and rotting. Water is condensing inside the HVAC ducts. Water is dripping from all the surfaces in the crawlspace causing puddles on the floor and adding to the humidity. The guys beginning work on this project refer to it as the “rain forest”. Condensation has created so many problems in this house that it will require many repairs to fix.

           

 

            That doesn’t begin to address the significant health hazards of breathing mold and mildew spores thriving in this crawlspace. And due to the same convection (the venting effect) that I mentioned earlier, those mold and mildew spores do make their way into the living space. If you have any questions about your crawl space, call 615-290-2228 or visit us on the web at www.ReevesCrawlSpace.com

 

 

Shaun Reeves ACE

Reeves Pest Control

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Shaun Reeves is the first certified entomologist in Williamson County, TN.  Reeves Pest Control is the premiere crawl space encapsulation company in Middle Tennessee.