[Greenbuilding] Crawlspace

[Leslie Moyer]

Yes, the company does that, too.  Radon is not TOO much of a problem, 
generally, in this part of the country, but it was where I lived in 
Iowa, so I'm aware.  And I know it CAN be a problem anywhere.  We had to 
remediate radon before selling a house in Iowa once.  Thanks!

I talked to this company on the phone today re: my second concern and 
they have 2 possible solutions he proposed that they use.  One is a 
moisture monitor (alarm) and the other is a moisture monitor with a sump 
pump.  I still have questions about how this would work (where would 
best placement of this/these be?), but feel better knowing it can be 
addressed.

--Leslie

On 1/13/15, 6:47 PM, ErgoDesk wrote:
> I would also add RADON protection.
>
> Sincerely,
> George Hawirko_
> _
> _http://about.me/StyroHome_
>
> On Tue, Jan 13, 2015 at 12:05 PM, Leslie Moyer <unschooler at lrec.org 
> <mailto: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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