Help protect your family and your home from excess moisture, toxic mold, unwanted pests, soil gases and harmful airborne allergens. With a  Crawl Space Encapsulation System, you can turn your dark, dingy crawl space into a bright, healthy, usable space.

Encapsulating your crawl space is completely different from waterproofing basement it involves the use of a heavy duty liner as well as a specially designed drainage system and sum pump a remove the water from your home.

Some of the features and benefits of encapsulating your crawl space are:

• An encapsulated crawl space will add additional bright, clean usable storage space to your home.

• Added insulation can help reduce your heating and cooling costs.

• The wall and floor liners act as a barrier to insects, gases, odors and moisture, enhancing air quality throughout your entire living space and creating a healthier home.

• You can increase the resale value of your home. Water problems must be disclosed when you sell the house, which could turn away potential buyers.

• If any future problems occur, our Encapsulation System can be cut and re-seamed with minimal disruption.

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• Added R11 insulation value for exterior walls to reduce your heating and cooling costs.

• Radiant barrier also reflects heat back into your crawl space.

• Can also be installed in the rim joist for added insulation.

• Rim joist .

A great way to make your upstairs living space more comfortable, and to increase your energy efficiency is to insulate the floor rim joist area in your basement or crawl space. Spray Foam (close cell), is twice as effective as the old fashion fiberglass batt insulation.Spray Foam will seal off any unwanted drafts, deter insects, rodents and is mold and mildew resistant.

Crawl Space Problems 

​Most people with crawl spaces experience very similar problems. If you know what problems to be looking for, you can make informed decisions about what needs to be done to repair them. Please look at the following list of potential crawl space problems that you could have and you can view more information about the issue or you can contact JbInsulation o schedule a consultation with one of our experts.

​Damp, Musty Ordors

If your crawl space has a damp, musty smell, that is a common sign that there is too much moisture in that area. This problem needs to be addressed because, not only do those odors, soil gases and excess moisture travel directly to your living areas, but also can lead to major problems. The soil gases and odors cause health issues and the moisture can cause your wooden floor joists to rot out and affect the support of your entire home.​

​Why Are Crawl Spaces Damp?​​

Homes are vented through the roof to allow warm air to escape. The warm air inside of your home rises and slowly escapes through the roof. At the same time, air is sucked into your home from the crawl space below. This process, known as the stack effect, brings moisture from the earth into your home. Damp crawl spaces can produce condensation, mildew, fungi, musty odors, and most of all, an unhealthy environment. Crawl space humidity allows mold to grow and release spores. A crawl space with humidity will have your home constantly filled with tiny invisible mold spores floating through the air.

If there’s moisture, there’s a good chance that spiders, silverfish, rats, mice, or even termites will make a home in the shady, damp crawl space under your home. The rot and decay from moisture can cause structural damage to your home. If there is mold, you’re likely to have dust mites as well.

How do crawl spaces get so damp? Roof water may be falling too close to your home. A typical roof can produce 1,250 gallons of water during a one-inch rainstorm. If this water is not properly drained away from the home, it can saturate the ground around your home. In the summer, excessive watering of the landscape and flowerbeds can create too much moisture around the foundation. If your home is on a slope, the rainwater will flow down the slope and pool next to your foundation. Even if there is not standing water, this moist soil will evaporate in to your crawl space, as the capillary action in described above.

In order to properly control dampness and odors in the crawl space, the best method is to install an encapsulation system as well as an air health  control system to control the humidity and prevent it from getting too high.

Leaking or Standing Water

Water can enter a crawl space when ground water rises during a hard rain, or even through capillary action, where surface tension will pull water through the soil, directly into your crawl space. You may also have a problem if your crawl space happens to fall beneath the water table line. Whatever the reason, it is important to find the source and correct the problem.

Standing water in the crawl space is unhealthy for your home environment because it invites excess moisture, mold growth, and sometimes bugs and critters. This unhealthy air will make its way directly to your living space and could affect your family.

We can install an encapsulation to make your crawl space a brighter, cleaner and healthier place for storage.

Nasty Plastic or Dirt Crawl Space

Dirt crawl spaces allow odors, gases and critters to have a free pas into your home. If you are living with a dirt crawl space, or even a cheap plastic sheeting over the dirt, soil gases and odors can find their way directly into your living areas, which can affect your family’s health. You also will not feel comfortable storing anything of value in that area without any protection against water, moisture or critters.

By installing a complete encapsulation process we can prevent any outside dirt and critters from entering the crawl space.

Excess Humidity or Moisture​

If you have excess or standing water in your crawl space, it needs to be addressed immediately. High amounts of water and moisture can lead to structural damage in your home by causing your wooden floor joists to rot out and even possibly break. Water and high moisture create a breeding ground for bacteria and other harmful gases, which can lead to health problems for your family, since half of the air that you breathe comes from your basement or crawl space.

To properly control the humidity in the crawl space, it must be closed off from the outside air with an encapsulation professional. Only then can we begin the process of reducing the humidity levels.