Replacing Crawl Space With Concrete Floor

Learn about concrete slab foundations and crawl space foundations.

Replacing crawl space with concrete floor.

In this video home renovation brothers dave and rich demonstrate how to insulate a crawl space. Let us know which one you would like to see on our spec house. With and with out a vapor barrier. It is imperative that the crawl space remains dry.

This is done by placing a heavy plastic vapor barrier over the ground under the structure and extending it up along the perimeter walls. This is done several ways. During periods of prolonged drought add moisture to the soil. Since the barrier prevents concrete water from seeping into the soil beneath the house it can only escape upward.

In this instance we focused on foil faced r 13 insulation on. Basically there are two approaches to fixing the problem. The concrete crawlspaces corp. I m not sure what has to be done to remove the wood floor and have the building sit joists and all on concrete.

Encapsulation system known as the safe seal system is the best measure you can take to waterproof and seal your crawl space. Concrete is porous meaning moisture can travel through it. The answer is simple an encapsulated crawl space done by concrete crawlspaces corp. That s a lot of moisture when you consider that the concrete required for a 1 000 square foot crawl space with a 4 inch slab contains 500 gallons of water which will be entrapped within the floors and walls of the home.

Installing a plastic liner and encapsulating the crawlspace or pumping a concrete floor into the crawlspace. Installing concrete a vapor barrier drain tile and a sump pump you can have a clean crawl space. This is essentially a concrete barrier meant to help control moisture in the crawl space. Remove floor joists aluminum tape bottom sides of stud wall s sill fill the voids with mortar in block s big long lag bolts go back to 3 step your dry block areas crawlspace gravel fill up slab.

While concrete may fix the aesthetic problems of exposed dirt crawlspaces it does not fix the moisture problems. The traditional mud pad is a poured concrete pad over a roughly graded dirt floor. There is little prep work done to flatten the area so the concrete thickness can range from 2 to 6 thick. Our goal is to provide you with a clean space that you can utilize.

This is for keeping the wood. The 18 crawl space would have to be cross vented heated properly.