All-Dry of the Carolinas Before & After Photos

Even if you get your crawlspace sealed from top to bottom with every bell and whistle imaginable, there’s still a chance you’ll have moisture issues if you do not properly seal the crawlspace entrance. This Simpsonville, SC homeowner discovered this fact very soon. Simply having a door doesn’t mean the space is secure. The equivalent of having a wooden door on a crawlspace is very much like installing a front door without a lock in the waterproofing world. Wooden doors, especially since they’re so low to the ground, will rot and warp. And once it has starting doing all of that, it won’t even seal properly. Now all that trouble you went to seal the space was all for nothing.

Take a look at the “Before” photo. The door is quite obviously wood. We know that. But around the door there are these skinny spaces. Normally, we wouldn’t bat an eye at something like that. However, since it’s a crawlspace, this is enough of an opening to cause an issue.

Now if we take a look at the “After” photo, we can see the major difference. This one completely seals the space from incoming air. Not only that, but, because it’s plastic, it won’t rot or wear. It doesn’t need paint and bugs won’t have a taste for it. The difference is as clear as night and day. Our Everlast Door is the way to go.

Our All-Dry crew was able to install a series of our waterproofing technology that would take care of the water issue in the crawlspace. Our crew installed a CleanSpace liner, sump pump, and dehumidifier. When encapsulating the crawlspace with CleanSpace, it seals the area to keep moisture from creeping up from the ground and causing damage to your foundation.   A dehumidifier was placed in the crawlspace as a solution to the humidity that is produced from the pipes under your house. A SumpPump is to flush out entering water and excess water from the dehumidifier from the crawlspace. Together with all these tools, the crawlspace is completely protected from moisture.

Before our visit to this customer's home, they had this small plastic barrier, which was not able to resolve the problem of accumulating water in their crawl space. However, our CleanSpace encapsulation is a much better solution.

In the "before" picture, you can see exposed ground and an area where water can easily collect.

In the "after" picture, our CleanSpace encapsulation system has been installed. This system keeps your crawl space seperate from the ground. This keeps humidity low-preventing mold growth, water out, and the heat in!

This homeowner had some very serious cracking on the side of their home. While these two photos show one of the more severe cracks on the home, it certainly was not the only area that needed some foundation support. As you may imagine, having large cracks in your home can be dangerous and very expensive if not taken care of quickly. To help get the home back to a more level and stable place, we use our Push piers, which are driven deep into the ground and help to raise the foundation, essentially pushing the home back together. Once back together, the crack is filled with mortar to seal it up.

In the "before" photo you can see that this crack was not small or could have easily been looked over. It was a huge crack that definitely needed to be taken care of. A majority of the crack is about an inch wide, while some parts (towards the top left) are almost two inches wide.

The "after" photo shows the difference that the push piers made in raising and leveling the foundation. The great thing about push piers are that, not only do they help to get the foundation to a level place, but they will not settle like foundation (which is the cause of the problem in the first place). So the push piers help correct the problem, then prevent the problem from reoccurring.

This customer had some issues with their garage/storage space. Upon the initial inspection of the job, our Service Design Specialist saw several areas of standing water, as well as damp concrete around the perimeter of the space. This can be very detrimental, and cause problems like; mold, increased heating and cooling bills, and other damage to windows and floors. However, this homeowner called us before any serious or permanent damage was done.

The "before" photo shows an area close to the garage door, a great place for water to get it. You can see a small pool of water, as well as damp/wet concrete that goes all the way off screen. While the garage door does have somewhat of a seal, not enough to keep water out, especially during a heavy rain.

The "after" photo shows the same area as before, but with the installed Waterguard and TripleSafe sump pump. The Waterguard is installed around the perimeter of the basement to collect any water that comes into the basement. The water is then drained through the WaterGuard to the sump pump and is then pumped outside the home. These two products together provide great protection against a wet basement.