Why you should Encapsulate your Crawlspace…👌
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So what these guys do it lay down a plastic vapor barrier (Moisture Barrier) And tape every single seam, beam, and everything in between. See how I rhymed those 😉. This way the ground is completely sealed off.
You can even add a dehumidifier that pulled excess moisture out of the air.
Then pair that with a sump pump that pumps any standing water produced by the dehumidifier or accumulated moisture out of the space.
So encapsulating the crawlspace it’ll do a few things:
• Seal the house from the moisture coming from the ground
• Prevent mold
• Improve the indoor air quality
• Increase energy efficiency
I don’t think you’ll recoup the cost through energy efficiency but cleaner indoor air and less moisture make it a deal in my eyes.
Cost ranges from $5-$10 a sq ft. The cost is all over the place so get a few quotes before signing off.
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I had this done to one of my houses. My pest control did an inspection, noticed mold developing under the house on the joists, and subfloor-
so that was all sprayed with a special sealant. Then all of this other work was done, and a sump pump was installed. It looks like a sanitary environment down there now, like you could perform surgeries under there.
Damn, as a German I can only shake my head how you guys build houses. It's just so different...
The pump isn't stupid though
How do Germans build houses .. what are some huge differences
Under my old cape cod house is a basement with a wood stairway, beautifully painted, and with a nice concrete floor. There’s also a nice walk in shower, huge porcelain wash sink, washer & dryer, a nat gas furnace. The rest of the area has a wood working shop w/tools, giant floor space with shelving for canned goods, etc. My home was built in 1949, with original GE kitchen still intact, I bought from 96 yr old electrical engineer.
I always love watching your videos when they come up as recommendations because of how much details you put out there about the subject that you’re talking about cause I actually learned a few things from just this video typically I’ve learned something from each one of them though. Even if some of the subjects aren’t necessarily affordable for me, I still like to watch them just to keep an idea out for possible future projects that may come up. 😅 anyway keep up the with the fantastic videos.
I have a crawl space in a new to us house that my wife & I bought 4 years ago. Everyone tells me that it is fairly clean and dry under our house but they built open vents into the crawl space. The open vents allow hot moist air under our air conditioned house in the summer and cold dry air under a house full of warm moist air in the winter. I have explained to my wife that this causes the floor to sweat & become moist in the dead of winter & in the dead of summer. The condition has existed for years according to my wife and she insisted that we spend our excess money on a new kitchen. ( which in my opinion was inadequate too) I would like to seal and, if possible, insulate the crawl space walls which do extend below the frost line and then add a heat exchanger to ventilated the house and crawl space at about one volume per every 3 hours. This would expel the moist house air in the winter and help force some of the houses air conditioned air into the crawl space which will create a low pressure in the crawl space. This should keep the hot moist summer air out of the crawl space. I have mentioned this to 3 HVAC guys who refuse to quote me a price to do this. They really don't want to do the work and have told me that they are not interested in the job. Just as I filled in two kitchen door ways and removed one load bearing wall in our almost finished kitchen; I will probably have to run my own ductwork, and connect my own heat exchanger, and at minimum seal & insulate at least the ventilation holes in the foundation. Besides I am now low on money because it went into the kitchen. It was a contractor built home, built to the low cheap contractor standards. ( a spec house)
that's a lot of words
to bad I aint reading em
Slab foundations are the best
We encapsulated out crawl space and after a year we started noticing a putrid smell. Is there something we could be doing to eliminate the smell? I worry about mold growing under the plastic since it is a dirt floor. Your channel is awesome. Thanks for all the wonderful tips 🤗
I look at american houses and I wonder why do they make houses like that.
Would pouring concrete give the same effect? Be it thin (2"), or more like normal (4"+). I think I've heard this called a rat slab.
No. It would be pointless because you'd want to put down plastic sheeting FIRST anyway, then pour cement over it. Would be better to bring in some sand first, then put down the plastic then to spend money on cement.
Yes. In the UK and a lot of Europe where crawl spaces are 1-2foot tall, they'll often put down a vapour barrier and then lay concrete.
It wouldn't be completely encapsulated so you'd be missing out on some of these benefits but man it would be awesome to have especially doing work under there. I buddy of mine did this so he can use a creeper to navigate under the house.
If my soil here in the south doesn't allow for a basement, I would want to pour a slab after encapsulation of crawlspace so it's actually useful storage and perhaps the kids can have their playroom and hideouts, etc. I'd probably even make a half staircase for easy access and obviously at that point have some egress windows. Though at that point, It may just make sense to raise the whole house up, get a full basement, and let the first floor be raised off the ground several feet.
I couldn't justify buying a house at today's prices and then not even have a damn basement. 🤦♂️
Some places in the country can't or do t have basements for a variety of reasons. Often having to do with soul composition etc.
Ah, the joys of living in a condo… This is something I’ll never have to worry about 🙃
Until the roaches from your neighbor’s place move in.
@@okaydude2863 you mean “the roaches from outside”? We have those in our neighborhood (much like you’d find them on any city, mind you) and our condominium and the city council just hire exterminators periodically, so basically they’re already half-dead or, at the very least, a bit slow when they enter… And yep, my house is weird in that it’s a first floor with a door at street level, and indeed even those that don’t, also open up to open-air, public walkways.
Since I use a water tank-based vacuum cleaner anyway, I just have them sucked up the tube, Ghostbusters-style, and dump them at the nearest gutter for the council to deal with them. You may think this is disgusting and that we’re just overrun with roaches, but I get a rate of 1-5 incursions per year, and only in warm months, so I see it as a fun little IRL game. 🙃
Now, as for my parents’ basement, that’s a different matter…
@@okaydude2863😂😂 wtf. Personally, I couldn’t live in the building with Neighbors being a wall over, I’m just way too loud and clumsy
@@MrDeathsrevenge I am, too, and sometimes they’re louder than me, and I have little music battles (such as insulting them with very specific songs). As long as it’s short and done before 10 pm, it’s no biggie. 😂
Now, in all seriousness, some neighbours are a bit… how shall I put it, unstable at our condominium meetings, because the distribution of needs and infrastructure (such as intercoms, lighting and elevators) isn’t very equitable but fees are relatively equal, but other than that, they’re fairly decent.
My downstairs neighbours are a Chinese family that owns a grocery store across the street and at least one of them wakes up super early to go to the fresh distribution market, and those kind of ground me because I know I have to respect their right to rest and their very tight, early-bird schedule (of course, me being the ADHDer that I am, it’s not uncommon for me to be pulling an all-nighter - always using headphones, of course! - and going to bed at around the same time they’re waking up 😅)… The upstairs neighbour, OTOH, screams at his wife a lot, and she screams back (I don’t think theres actual domestic violence going on, but if I ever suspect it is, I will get the authorities involved), and him being an idiot conservative buffoon, yes, that’s the one I like to mess with because he messes with my Zen to begin with. As for the side neighbours, I did have a sometimes very noisy AirBnB rental on the right, but it has since been put in the long-term rental market and all my neighbours since have been fairly quiet.
And yes, I know what you mean by being clumsy… I also hear when people drop stuff, but you’d be surprised at just how good our concrete slabs are are isolating footsteps and that kind of stuff. We hear mostly other loud noises, such as kitchen appliances or blinds opening and closing, which only happens at very specific times of the day. Heck, I can’t even say I can really hear other people flushing the toilet, FWIW 🤷♂️ (probably while dwelling in the bathroom myself, because those are obviously all stacked vertically, but not elsewhere in the flat if I keep the door shut).
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2 views in 13 seconds???? Builder brigade fell off 😆
lol. I just happened to open my phone to change the station….. and I’ve done similar stuff on a couple homes in CA, that don’t have basements, but a nice clean crawl space makes any remodeling better, and if you do it right, ads a lot of benefits, and is a good plus on most sales. Some buyers don’t get stuff like this. lol.
I think it was the whole peeing in bathtubs and garages fiasco.
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