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6000 sq ft of nasty!
Most inspectors will tell you that they don’t like crawl spaces.  Like Mickey Rourke in Barfly would say (not about crawl spaces, but about cops), “I just feel better when they are not around.”  The problem is that crawl spaces represent a tremendous source of blog fodder.  There are the wood destroying organisms, the structural failures, the plumbing leaks, the uncovered wells & septic tanks, the rodents, the homeless, and the dangling electrical wires.
There is literally no end to the amusement and adrenalin rushes that crawl spaces can provide.
I recently inspected a 6000 square ft crawl space----or more accurately I inspected 1/3 of a 6000 sq ft crawl space.
I was told that the access opening had been carpeted over because, “In 20 years there had never been any issues down there, and we figured it really wasn’t necessary.”  Well allrightythen, I knew rightythen that I was in for a fun time in the crawl space.
After much effort, I was able to get into the crawl space through one of the crawl space vents---even though the opening was very wet.  As soon as I saw how wet the opening at the vent was I was less than optimistic ... more

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