[Greenbuilding] Crawlspace

[ErgoDesk]

I would also add RADON protection.

Sincerely,
George Hawirko
*http://about.me/StyroHome <http://about.me/StyroHome>*

On Tue, Jan 13, 2015 at 12:05 PM, Leslie Moyer <unschooler at lrec.org> wrote:

> I'm getting ready to have some work done on my crawlspace....vapor barrier
> on the ground & wall insulation.  I'm calling a local company whose info I
> got from this website to do an estimate: http://www.basementsystems.
> com/crawl-space/crawl-space-vapor-barrier.html
>
> I'll ask these questions when they come to do the estimate, but also
> thought I would ask here (for unbiased answers).  I have two
> questions/concerns.
>
> 1. We had a small addition added to the end of our long, skinny ranch
> house last winter.  Imagine a long rectangle...we added about 15 feet to
> the east end of it (a bathroom & extended bedroom). I had them finish that
> new part of the house crawlspace in the "right" way (with a vapor barrier
> on the ground & wall insulation), but since the rest of the (old) part of
> the house crawl space is insulated in the (house) floor, the new floor is
> cold.  We knew we were doing this work soon-ish, and are just now getting
> around to it.  They knocked a people-size hole in the end of the old
> foundation to allow access to the new part of the crawl space, but I'm
> worried that the existing foundation (that runs the width of the house)
> will be a long thermal bridge that never allows the new end of the house to
> warm up. Thoughts?
>
> 2. Our plumbing runs are in the crawlspace and we had a bad plumbing leak
> there last year.  The kitchen sink drain became unhooked from the main
> drain pipe (or was never hooked up well to begin with) and was leaking
> water and some food waste under there for at least a year--probably
> longer.  Not helped by the fact that our septic was also backing up, we
> think.  It all got fixed when we did the addition and renovated both
> bathrooms (and did work on our septic lines), but the way we knew it was
> leaking was the smell coming from the crawlspace vents.  And we had a great
> deal of difficulty finding a plumber willing to get under there and fix it.
> Anyway--if we have plumbing problems again--even a small leak--with a vapor
> barrier down there, isn't it going to create a swimming pool?  How would we
> know?
>
> I hate crawlspaces.
>
> --Leslie Oklahoma
>
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