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Protect Your Home With These Crawl Space Repair Solutions

Crawlspace

Much like your body, every system within your home plays an essential role in keeping it

healthy. So, you can probably guess, if there is a problem in your crawl space, like water damage, that damage will eventually spread to other areas of your home and begin causing major damage. This includes crawl space water damage, water leaks, wood rot, wall moisture issues, and structural problems.

Besides the benefits to your home's structure, you can save a lot of money on utility bills, avoid unnecessary repairs from advanced damage, and create a healthy living space in your home. You will gain valuable space for storage once your crawl space is encapsulated properly.

You'll never need to worry about leaky crawl space walls or water damage that will ruin your personal belongings; our unique crawl space repair and encapsulation solutions are patented and warrantied. Your investment in a dry, pest-free crawl space will bring you peace of mind for as long as you live in your home.

Crawl Space Repair Solutions

Protect Your Vents With Vent Covers

Crawl space vents might as well have welcome mats for pests and rodents enter your home. Termites, carpenter ants, wood-eating beetles, and crickets love moldy, rotting wood and your vents serve as an open invitation for them. years of undetected insect and critter damage can seriously damage your home's structure.

Open crawl space vents also allow frigid winter air into your home. If you have any utilities in your crawl space, including your furnace, water heater, hot water pipes, or air ducts, they have to work much harder in cold conditions. Not only is it causing your utility bills to increase but a portion of that air will move upwards into your home, making your first floor drafty and chilly. Vent covers seal your crawl space from extreme weather changes and pests. No more worrying about rising humidity or condensation.

Improve Your Crawl Space With Vapor Barriers

Crawlspace

Installing a CleanSpace vapor barrier is one of the most cost-effective ways to improve your crawl space and prevent the need for expensive future crawl space repairs. Along with protection from mold and rot, a dry crawl space is also inhospitable to termites, cockroaches, ants, crickets, and other pests that need excessive moisture to survive. Mice and rats are deterred by the plastic vapor barrier, and flooding waters will be kept at bay. You will also notice that odors and allergenic mold spores that would otherwise rise up through the floor are kept away.

As an additional benefit, the CleanSpace crawl space vapor barrier acts as a passive radon mitigation system. It is also compatible with your active radon mitigation system as well as products such as crawl space sump pumps and the SaniDry Sedona dehumidifier.

Dehumidifier

Crawlspace

The SaniDry Sedona is a powerful dehumidification system that is specifically designed for a basement or crawl space environment. This innovative system is small enough to fit into tight spaces while staying powerful with a 300CFM fan that keeps dry air circulating throughout the space. You'll love the self-draining system -- there's no need to constantly empty collection trays! A Merv-11 air filtration system is included to filter mold, dust mite waste, and other allergens as small as two microns.

We'll Provide You With Long-Lasting Solutions

What makes us unique? With us, everything matters, first and foremost, the health and safety of your home. If you’re looking for crawl space repair experts in Ringgold and the surrounding areas, look no further than Fortress Foundation Solutions, the premier foundation repair, and waterproofing professionals!

Call us today at 1-434-473-7012 or contact us online for a free estimate!

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Fortress Foundation Solutions
129 Vista Centre Dr Suite A
Forest, VA 24551
1-434-207-5599


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5305 Jefferson Pike
Frederick, MD 21703
1-301-234-7042