Crawl space information

Crawl spaces? Who cares about this stuff? Who go's into their crawl space anyway. The answer is you should.

It has been known that although Bill and Carl Buchan built great homes, they "sub'ed" out many components to contractors. The heating contractors that started out in the first 50 homes built in Highland Park proved to be short on quality of workmanship. I found this out by getting into my crawl space to repair a sump I have access to it via this area. It was warm down there! Why was this?

The answer was some of the duct's where disconnected and some were broken into by rodents [another blog subject]. The insulation was sub code and not as effective due to the installation technique used in the late 80's. It was R-15 but smashed a little from the wire method to suspend it. It just so happened that I saw a truck on the road some months past with the name Clean Crawl Inc.

In a nutshell I had Clean Crawl Inc. inspect and confirm my findings of excess heat in the crawl space. I hired them to increase the insulation by adding another R-15, re-connect and repair the ducts [1 especially] and establish a new vapor barrier. What a difference that made to the warmth of the house and our heating bill. Right off the bat a decrease of $100/month! They did a fabulous job and it's a beautiful sight to see. I think another problem needs to be solved and that will happen when a new furnace arrives, before the winter of 2009. Check out the furnace blog in the future. For now I can give you the information to reach these people but others are good as well. I was happy with their service.

Clean Crawls
Kim Clark
425-864-6970

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