Open pier foundations on rural lots, with clay over rock keeping water in the top few feet of soil.
Orchard Hill homes are mostly older frame construction sitting on open brick piers, and many of them have no perimeter wall at all. That means the crawl space is fully exposed to outside air, and outside air here is humid for a large part of the year.
Under them the clay sits on rock, which keeps water in the top few feet of soil. So the ground under the house holds moisture, releases it upward, and the framing above sits in humid air with nothing between them.
Treatment on an open pier house includes building and sealing a perimeter as part of the moisture work, since there is no way to control humidity in a space that is open to the yard. Framing gets cleaned and treated first, debris and contaminated insulation come out, then the enclosure and sealed ground cover go in.
Orchard Hill homeowners get the same scope every time, priced in writing before a crew books the date.

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