Why Foundation Vents Don't Work
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- Опубликовано: 14 окт 2024
- In this video I go over why foundation vents don't work like they used to. Whether you have an old house or are building a new house, knowledge about foundation vents could be vital to your home. Sealed encapsulated crawl spaces are your best option. One with a dehumidifier and sump pump.
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Yes and those commercial dehumidifiers are 1,700 bucks. Im going to go with fans in the vents. One blowing out and one blowing in.
Looking to for options to protect my 1950s Crawlspace.. I live in Deep South though. I just spent 30k remodeling a bathroom that just after putting up walls found had dry rot... 🤦🏻♂️🤦🏻♂️
Makes me super nervous either way due to our high humidity
Most of the contractors told me to cover the soil with some particular material and open the vents up to let it breathe.. I know our air is almost always humid...
Ranch style home with less than 18 inches of clearance in a lot of spots..
I'm not sure what to do.... enclose and put a dehumidifier???
They had to leave some of the minor dryrot boards unfortunately and pretreated with a borate solution.
Wasn't happy it didn't all come out but it took 9 months on a project that if had noticed to start before walls went in would have been simple. STILL pissed at plumbers cause they didn't say anything.
I found it myself when I felt a sag I crawled under. It is super dirty, I have had 2 back surgeries, and it is in the furthest spot from my access in a 3500 ft house.. or I would have been under first
Good video! I am almost done with my crawl space encapsulation but have one question I haven’t been able to find I a clear answer to. I am preparing to install my vent fan but can’t figure out if I should leave one vent to the outside on the other side of the crawl space open, or cut a new hole in the floor and install a blank register. I live in Washington State so humidity typically really low and I just left a vent from the hvac open to heat the crawl space instead of installing a dehumidifier. Cheers!
Thank you! In that case, I would close up all vents except the one you are putting the fan in. It will pull air from the house and wherever it can and cycle new air in the space. Not sure how prominent radon is in your area, but I would be sure to test for it in intervals once you are done just to be sure you’re not getting any soil gas build up once you seal up your crawl space.
@@thecrawlspaceace4696 Saweeet! Thanks for the reply, that’s what I’m gonna do then. Radon isn’t bad in our area but it’s recommended to monitor it. I’ve got about a 1 year average on its and it’s super low. I’ve seriously been sitting at like 95% completion trying to figure out what the right/reasonable decision to make here is for about a year.
This is probably overkill but I was trying to find a product like plastidip or a liquid rubber I could paint over the tape on my seems to make it more air tight. Is that crazy? I spent 14 years in aerospace so I unintentionally tend to go overkill on my diy stuff. Like I’ll sweat balls over 1/16th of an inch 🤣
@@AfflictionAce hi ace. I'm in washington state as well. Would it be possible to contact you on your project?