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DIY Crawl Space Encapsulation: A Step-by-Step Guide

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    24 de julho de 2023 08:22:02 ART

    Crawl spaces are inherently dirty smelly places that will contain all types of unwanted odors from mold & mildew to urine & feces. Some aspects of the nation may also have soil underneath your home with odorless, harmful gases like radon gas. I'm a huge believer that the most effective long-term solution to solve these problems is to encapsulate the air underneath your home with a liner system. It is really a inherently impossible to keep rodents, bugs and mold from the area underneath the house since the soil is exposed - but it's relatively simple to create a barrier between the house and crawl space the keep out each one of these unwanted nuisances.

    I had a good lady write me last week telling me relating to this house she'd just purchased that formerly had many cats living in the crawl space and they left out the smell of a giant litter box underneath her home. The odors were coming up through the wooden floor and creating a very fowl smell in the house. She explained she tried many different solutions: spreading baking soda, spraying a molecule treatment originally meant for carpets & laying down new top soil - obviously none worked.

    I wrote her back, apologized on her behalf wasted time and suggested that she treat her crawl space such as a wild beast that you can't defeat, only contain. She took my advise, installed a crawl space encapsulation system and the smells immediately went away.Encapsulation systems are rated by permeability - 0.000 is the best, normal plastic is 0.01 and wood is 0.2. To avoid all smells, moisture and gases try to find an encapsulation liner system with a 0.000 permeability rating. A zero perm liner will even completely weatherize the crawl space and save on energy bills since the outside air won't be able to leak to the home https://trans4mind.com/counterpoint/index-home-garden/common-crawl-space-problems.html .

    I can't inform you how often I've received a phone or been sent a contact from the homeowner telling me how they visited Home Depot, bought a liner system as thin as a garbage bag, spent an entire weekend installing after that it didn't solve their problem. Cheap store bought liners are generally 6-12 mil, 0.01 permeability and even new they don't stop gases like Radon - they're also easily chewed through by bugs and rodents leaving the crawl space per year later leaking air just like a sieve.

    • 543 posts
    24 de julho de 2023 09:14:21 ART

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