High humidity can make a pleasant sunny day otherwise feel miserable. We feel bogged down and can sometimes get to the point of feeling overwhelmed as if it were hard to get some fresh air. Staying indoors on a hot, humid day can help us get a reprieve, however, what are we to do if the systems that keep humidity out of our home aren’t doing their job properly?
Humidity makes its way into our homes one way or another. We will never be able to keep it completely out via sealing cracks and crevices or any other means, but we can increase our defense against it through those means. Ultimately, it is our HVAC systems that do the work to keep our houses cool and dry. Naturally, the more humidity in the air, the harder the HVAC unit has to work. Now, although we can’t change the weather outside in our favor, we can consider, in homes with a crawl space, what role our crawl space might have in high humidity inside our home.
Humid air has more access to the crawl spaces beneath our homes that are unfinished. They are less prepared to keep the outside elements out and are the quickest to become damp and moldy with time. Consequently, this moldy, musty air travels up inside of your home from the crawl space bringing all of the allergens and spores with it.
Encapsulating your crawl space blocks it off completely from intruding moisture. This means you have a clean and dry environment that lends clean and dry air to your home. A finished crawl space helps your HVAC system work much less to keep a cooler home and leaves you feeling breezy, no matter the humid weather outside.
Does your home need a crawl space to be finished, or encapsulated? Give Barrier Waterproofing Systems a call at (615) 257-1060.
