Basement Waterproofing Case Studies: Preventing mositure in New Home Crawlspace
Challenge
The homeowner is building a new house and wanting to install preventative measures
Solution
This home was in the middle of being constructed in Greer, SC. The home owner had had work done by All-Dry of the Carolinas in his old home and was wanting to protect his new home from the start. Instead of waiting for something to happen once the home was built, the homeowner called us at All-Dry to install a total encapsulation of the crawlspace as preventative action.
Our All-Dry of the Carolinas team started the project by installing our Silver Glo insulation. Silver Glo was installed as insulation for the crawlspace to prevent heat from leaving the house. Since heat moves from more to less, the Silver Glo works to keep the heat inside the home to keep the crawlspace and floors above warm. But Silver Glo isn’t your typical insulation; it is EPS foam with graphite infused into the foam to raise the insulation value by 24% over the standard EPS foam. Along with the graphite infused foam, it is covered in a shiny radiant barrier that reflects head back inside.
Once the Silver Glo was installed our All-Dry team wrapped the crawlspace with CleanSpace. CleanSpace is a 20 mil thick liner that is laid across the crawlspace floor. This liner works as a barrier to keep moister that is produced from the ground out of the crawlspace.
In addition to the CleanSpace a TripleSafe Sump System was added to the crawlspace as a way of pushing excess water that enters from outside. The TripleSafe System has two different pumps along with a battery backup UltraSump. If the first pump fails or cannot keep up with the flow of water, the second pump will kick in to help out making sure that the water is getting expelled from the crawlspace. In the case of a power outage, the UltraSump battery backup will kick in until power is restored to the system.
To finish up the process our All-Dry team installed a Aprilaire dehumidifier. The Aprilaire pulls the moisture from the air and pushes it into a condensate pump where the water is flushed from the crawlspace.
Together with all of these products our All-Dry of the Carolinas team was able to install a perfect prevention plan to keep this new home safe and dry.
