Crawl spaces

Sealed crawl spaces under additions, lake cottages and older homes.

Vented crawl spaces under older homes and lake cottages let cold air sweep under the floor all winter. The alternative is to seal and insulate the crawl space walls, lay a ground cover over the soil and treat it as part of the house.

Whether that suits your place depends on how wet the soil is, where the water drains and whether a furnace or water heater is down there. Tell us what you can see from the hatch, and we tell you how we would handle the moisture.