The Top 5 Methods to Insulate Your Crawl Space

A house constructed on a crawl space foundation is ideal for those who want to ensure that their home gets kept off the ground to stop flooding in a humid climate or a humid season. However, your crawl space needs to be adequately enclosed, sealed, or vented. In that case, chances are it will be an unusually wet, gloomy, and humid environment, which is perfect for the growth of fungi and mold. As they grow in the crawl space, mold and mildew spores can be found in vents and cracks in floorboards, allowing allergens in and contaminating your living areas.

Most homeowners need to know how their crawl space affects the rest of their homes. If your crawlspace isn’t closed, you’re allowing air from outside into your home and creating an uncontrolled atmosphere, impacting the rest of your house’s air quality and temperature. A well-conditioned crawl space will lower energy costs and increase indoor air quality.

It is possible to improve your home’s energy efficiency and the air quality within and lower your energy expenses by properly insulating your crawl area, specifically during the chilly winter months.

How to Properly Insulate Your Crawlspace to Improve Energy Efficiency

Here are five ideas to increase the crawl space and ensure that it’s helping your home’s insulation and not constantly losing heat.

1: Get rid of the source of water by installing a crawl space drainage system. There are numerous methods to remove your crawl space and keep it dry, including establishing the Smart Pipe System, a crawl space sump pump, and drainage mats for crawl spaces with dirt floors.

2: Insulate the walls in your crawl space and the ceiling to ensure maximum temperature control. 613 Spray Foam provides a range of patent-pending wall insulation products and allows your crawl space to be kept warm in the winter months and cool in the summer.

3: Make sure to use waterproof, mold-resistant insulation like ridge board or cellulose instead of fiberglass.

4: Cover all openings and vents within the crawlspace. It will stop the air outside from entering and keeps the indoor air quality in good shape. In addition, you must ensure that all rim joists and sills have to get sealed with a foam sealant.

5: Set up a vapor barrier to ensure your basement is clean and safe. This clean space crawl space vapor barrier System will prevent the crawlspace from being flooded, prevent mold and rot, eliminate smells, and add spaces for storage. Most importantly, it will avoid drafts that might threaten your home above.

Whatever type of crawl space you’ve got, sealing and insulating it will increase the quality and efficiency of your home. We should design a crawl space to be a dry and valuable space that adds worth to the house and is not an area for mold, mildew, and other pests to thrive and cause chaos.

Encapsulating crawl spaces by DIY can take time and effort to complete independently. Professionals can complete it in just a fraction of the time and offer the confidence they will correct it on the first go around. The crawl insulation and waterproofing options will help you save time, money, and hassle in the future.

If you’re looking for the most reliable insulation services, 613 Spray Foam is the company you can trust. Contact us at (613) 319-8422, or email us at info@613sprayfoam.ca to learn more about our insulation solutions.