Crawl Space Water Removal & Drying in Cottondale, AL

How this job runs in Cottondale

Two different spaces get called a crawl space here. Under the old frame houses on the Birmingham road there are open piers, where the water drains away but the ground stays wet for weeks afterward. Under a manufactured home there is a skirted void — closed on four sides, usually over bare dirt, with no barrier on the ground and no real ventilation. The second one holds humidity the way a jar does.

If your home is skirted, the cheapest single improvement available is heavy plastic laid over the dirt underneath and lapped up the inside of the skirting. Bare ground gives off water continuously into a closed space, day and night, in every season. Covering it does more for the floor above than any equipment run after the fact.

Where we start

1. Look before pumping

   The space is entered and read with a meter, so the depth, the source, the state of the insulation and the clearance available for equipment are known first.

The full method, the salvage thresholds and what the equipment is doing are on the Crawl Space Water Removal & Drying page. Cottondale covers everything else we handle in this town.