Crawl Space Repair for Kathleen homeowners
Kathleen has been going from rural to suburban for twenty years, and what is under the houses tells you which era each one came from. There are farmhouses on original brick piers with crawl spaces you can nearly stand in, and there are new subdivision homes on graded pads with eighteen inches of clearance. They fail differently.
The soil is the constant. Sandy on top, clay below, on large lots that often have no storm drainage at all. Water that lands on the property leaves through the ground or it does not leave, and on the low corner of a big Kathleen lot it usually does not. That is the moisture that ends up under the floor.
On the older houses we are mostly replacing wood: joist ends, girder sections, sill plate where it has gone soft, and resetting piers that have leaned. On the newer ones it is more often settlement into fill and mold on a damp subfloor. Either way the second half of the job is the same, which is sealing the ground and giving the water somewhere to go.
The scope is fixed before we start on a Kathleen home, so nothing gets added once the crew is underneath.
- Repairs wood rot and dry rot
- Addresses termite and pest damage
- Restores structural integrity
- Free, no-obligation assessment
