<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial narrow,sans-serif;font-size:large">I would also add RADON protection.</div><span></span></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br clear="all"><div><div class="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><span style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:proxima-nova-1,proxima-nova-2,Tahoma,Helvetica,Verdana,sans-serif;font-size:14px;line-height:21px">Sincerely,</span><br style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:proxima-nova-1,proxima-nova-2,Tahoma,Helvetica,Verdana,sans-serif;font-size:14px;line-height:21px"><span style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:proxima-nova-1,proxima-nova-2,Tahoma,Helvetica,Verdana,sans-serif;font-size:14px;line-height:21px">George Hawirko</span><font color="#0000ee"><u><br></u></font></div><div><font color="#0000ee"><u><a href="http://about.me/StyroHome" target="_blank">http://about.me/StyroHome</a></u></font><br></div></div></div></div></div></div>
<br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Jan 13, 2015 at 12:05 PM, Leslie Moyer <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:unschooler@lrec.org" target="_blank">unschooler@lrec.org</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">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: <a href="http://www.basementsystems.com/crawl-space/crawl-space-vapor-barrier.html" target="_blank">http://www.basementsystems.<u></u>com/crawl-space/crawl-space-<u></u>vapor-barrier.html</a><br>
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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.<br>
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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?<br>
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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?<br>
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I hate crawlspaces.<br>
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--Leslie Oklahoma<br>
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