Your Hampton Roads home is supposed to be your escape from the cold winter weather – but there are areas of your home that might contribute to lessening your comfort levels, such as the crawl space!
When temperatures drop, the crawl space of your home can impact your home in a multitude of ways, including…
Making Your Home Feel Colder
An unsealed crawl space will let the cold air in, these drafts of cold air can enter your home through vents, cracks and gaps in the structure and will rise up leaving you with colder walls and floors.
Increasing Moisture Buildup
Winter weather conditions produce wet soil, which can seep into the crawl space and evaporate into the air leading to a rapid growth of mold and fungi.
Promoting Condensation
With the cold, outdoor air sneaking in and mixing with the heated air, the resulting moisture can condense and form water droplets that settle in your crawl space. These droplets can create several issues including wood rot, insulation damage, mold growth and more.
Lowering the Quality of Air Indoors
The aforementioned moisture, in addition to leading to mold buildup, promotes the growth of bacteria that can create an unhealthy environment for the household. This can result in allergy flare-ups, asthma attacks and other respiratory illnesses.
Increasing Heating Bills
Your heating system will be in a constant battle with the cold air that sneaks in through the crawl space, trying to heat up the space as it gets cooled more quickly than it should causing you to spend more on heating costs.
How can you avoid these issues in your home this winter? E.T. Lawson offers a crawl space encapsulation service utilizing FOAM-LOK™ spray foam insulation home sealing that can help make your home a more comfortable place while potentially reducing your home energy bills by up to 40%.
We have more than 16 heating and cooling service agreements that cover virtually every kind of heating or cooling system and every type of fuel.
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