There is always air movement occurring between your crawl space and house. Even if your floor is insulated, air is still traveling throughout your house. This process is called the stack effect or convection. Warm air in the home rises and is expelled through windows, vents, cracks, and gap...
The device (1) has an insulating interjoist (2) equipped with an upper face (20), a lower face (21) and longitudinal support spoilers (22) that are arranged for being supported on heel of adjacent parallel beams during manufacture of floor. An insulating slab (3) is assembled with the ...
began using fiberglass batts to insulate crawl spaces many years ago, before newer types of insulation had been developed. Today, we know that fiberglass performs poorly when installed between crawl space joists. In fact, if often ends up as a moisture-soaked mess on the crawl space floor. ...
identify its existing problem and find the best solution. Sometimes, water problems in your crawl space due to improper grading or inadequate drainage. They fix these issues first. Another most common problem in crawl space is mold growth. If floor joist or HVAC equipment has mold development, ...
Try hauling a bundle of 2-inch foam board slabs down into a tight crawl area (photo below left) that requires contortions just to enter or exit the space. Add working alone. And ask yourself how many trips you would be willing to make crawling in to measure, out to cut, in to test...
Once both the discharge and vent are in place, run them to the desired point to pass them through to the outside of the house. I ran the plumbing for this project allow the floor joist and through the rim joist to the outside of the craw space. ...