Real estate blog entries tagged with crawl space moisture issues by Richard Acree - Nashville TN Home Inspections (HABITEC Home and Building Inspections, LLC)

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crawl space moisture issues: Nashville Home Inspection - What's Wrong With This Picture? 5.23.11 - 05/24/11 10:54 PM

Nashville Home Inspection - What's Wrong With This Picture?
HINT: Water is real heavy!

ANSWER: Very interesting what happened here. What is laying on the ground in this crawl space is styrofoam insulation board that was at one time glued to the crawl space foundation wall. The glue is the brown lines of material on the walls. Look at the bottom of the wall and you can see the stain from the high water mark on the foundation wall. So the water got so high the styrofoam board got wet. The weight of the wet board was too much for the old … (1 comments)

crawl space moisture issues: Nashville Home Inspection - Question - How Much Water in the Crawl Space is Too Much? - 04/12/11 06:47 PM

Question: How much water or moisture in the crawl space is too much? For instance, is the moisture indicated by the picture below too much?

ANSWER: Yes! When the mushrooms start growing in the crawl space, that has to be too much moisture. I am not aware of any numerical metric to declare a crawl space too wet or not, but this has to be over the limit. You can also see the very wet condition of the soil, and unfortunately, you can clearly see the wet soil, which should be covered by the moisture barrier.
Surely, despite all our best … (2 comments)

crawl space moisture issues: Nashville Home Inspection - Crawl Space Moisture - What's Wrong With This Picture? 8/2/10 - 08/03/10 10:16 PM

During a recent Nashville Home Inspection a HABITEC Home Inspector observed the Crawl Space Moisture. What's Wrong With This Picture?
HINT: What's that shiny stuff in the insulation?

ANSWER: Wait, that's water! Lots of water! That cannot be good, can it? Well, a little moisture in the crawl space is OK, but a lot is bad! And insulation should never be wet. If you start to pull the wet insulation down to see above, guess what you find. See below.

Pulling the insulation all the way out may reveal the whole truth, and it's not pretty. See below.

Bottom line, keep … (2 comments)

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