My house sits on a hill, in which the SE corner of the lot is highest grade of the lot. Everything runs from the SE Corner to the NW.
Despite french drains and gutters, water seems to be seeping under the house and into the crawl space on the SE corner. We also have some visible mold in that corner of the house in the crawl space.
I had one company come out, and have a couple more coming out tomorrow.
They gave me a few options.
1. Regrading under the crawlspace and adding in draining and a sump pump, dehumidifer, and humidity monitors. -$6K
2. Adding full encapsulation plus the above is +$9k for a total of $15K
3. Scrubbing and spraying visible mode ($2.50 a sq. ft for ~1000 sq. ft of area) - $3K
4. Vent cleaning - $2K
For sure I think I need to do 1 to make sure we prevent the water from coming in/staying in
He mentioned I could hold off on number 2 and see how it goes with just the pump, and then come back in and do the full encapsulation if I was still having issues.
He also said that I could skip the scrubbing and spraying of existing mold if I did full encapsulation as the "mold would go dormant".
I am in Dallas.
Anyone have experience with similar issues? Advice? Should I just go all out and do everything? Start without the encapsulation and see how it goes?
Despite french drains and gutters, water seems to be seeping under the house and into the crawl space on the SE corner. We also have some visible mold in that corner of the house in the crawl space.
I had one company come out, and have a couple more coming out tomorrow.
They gave me a few options.
1. Regrading under the crawlspace and adding in draining and a sump pump, dehumidifer, and humidity monitors. -$6K
2. Adding full encapsulation plus the above is +$9k for a total of $15K
3. Scrubbing and spraying visible mode ($2.50 a sq. ft for ~1000 sq. ft of area) - $3K
4. Vent cleaning - $2K
For sure I think I need to do 1 to make sure we prevent the water from coming in/staying in
He mentioned I could hold off on number 2 and see how it goes with just the pump, and then come back in and do the full encapsulation if I was still having issues.
He also said that I could skip the scrubbing and spraying of existing mold if I did full encapsulation as the "mold would go dormant".
I am in Dallas.
Anyone have experience with similar issues? Advice? Should I just go all out and do everything? Start without the encapsulation and see how it goes?