Red clay that holds moisture for weeks. The ground under a Lizella house rarely gets a chance to dry.
Clay holds water longer than any other soil we work on, and the kaolin and red clay west of Macon are as retentive as it gets. Ground under a Lizella house that takes on water in a February rain can still be releasing moisture into the crawl space in April.
That long, slow supply is ideal for mold. It never gets a dry stretch long enough to interrupt growth, so what starts on one joist spreads across the subfloor over a few seasons. On large rural lots with no storm drainage there is nothing carrying rain away before it soaks in near the house.
The job is treatment plus a sealed ground cover, and on clay the cover matters even more than usual. Framing gets cleaned and treated, contaminated material comes out, the clay gets graded and covered with a sealed liner, and roof water gets piped well away from the foundation. Photographs and a fixed written price first.
Lizella homeowners get the same scope every time, priced in writing before a crew books the date.

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