Crawl Space Encapsulation Lexington, KY

What is Crawl Space Encapsulation?

Crawl space encapsulation is a process that seals off your home’s crawl space to protect it from moisture, pests, and temperature fluctuations. This involves installing a heavy-duty vapor barrier across the floor and walls of the crawl space, along with sealing vents and openings to prevent outside air and water from getting in. Often, a dehumidifier is added to control humidity levels, creating a dry and stable environment. For homeowners in Lexington, KY, encapsulating your crawl space can improve indoor air quality, enhance energy efficiency, and protect your home’s foundation from long-term damage caused by moisture and mold.

Crawl Space Encapsulation With Synergy Home

Crawl spaces are nasty places, for those of us who’ve been in the industry a long time we’ve all found spiders, crickets, the occasional opossum, definitely some snakes, mold, and even even sewage in crawl spaces that we’ve been in. Sadly, the construction industry has known since the 1980s that we should not be building houses on ventilated crawl spaces.

Most crawl spaces have foundation vents that were designed to allow air to flow through the crawl space to keep moisture low. Unfortunately that doesn’t work very well. To make matters worse most homeowners don’t realize they’re supposed to open the crawl space vents in the summertime and close them in the winter time.

Typically what happens is that the vents in the winter time allow cold air in the crawl space, which makes it up into the home making the heating and cooling system work harder. Moving through the crawl space, it picks up dust, dirt, debris, mold, and brings it up into the living space. If you live with a crawl space, 25% of the air that you breathe comes through the crawl space first, and if you’ve ever seen how nasty crawl spaces are, that’s not a pleasant thought.

Synergy encapsulates crawl spaces better than any company in town. Most of our competitors do not offer closed cell Spray Foam, which is a game changer. We go into the crawl space, remove all the nasty stuff, all the nasty insulation, all the construction debris and we lay down really nice white woven polyurethane plastic called Viper Matt, it is 10 times as strong as the polyurethane you’re going to get at Lowe’s or Home Depot. We then seal that to the foundation with Spray Foam and close off all the foundation vents with spray foam and then insulate all the perimeter of the foundation with closed cell Spray Foam.

Fernando is so particular about crawl spaces that at the end of the job he will take his shoes off and crawl through the crawl space, sock footed, so he does not bring any dirt in to do his final walk through . When we are done with a crawl space, it is cleaner than most people’s basements and, by sealing the foundation vents, we don’t have that cold air coming in so it makes the house much easier to heat and cool, it makes the floors much warmer in the winter time, and it lowers the humidity in the summertime. Of all the services we offer, crawl space encapsulation is the one that has the most dramatic customer satisfaction. When I run into a customer whose crawl space we have encapsulated, they typically are ecstatic.