Older homes in the South were typically built over a crawl space rather than a finished basement. Even today, many homes don't include a finished basement because of our damp, Southern soils. What you ...

My dad tells me I should cover my crawlspace vents when the temperature drops below 25 degrees. My concern in so doing is that we might be inviting problems. Specifically we have had rat problems, ...

Q. My house has four crawl space foundation vents that have flaps that can be opened or closed. The furnace people said to keep the vents closed all the time to prevent condensation from forming on ...

Q. Our house is 39 years old with a 4-foot-deep crawl space. We have a mold problem in several places on the wood-base plates, where it meets the concrete foundation. We have been advised by ...

Q : You have often said that crawl space vents need to be opened in the winter. Why is that? I always thought they should be closed to keep my water pipes from freezing. A: I used to think the same ...

I insulated the crawl space under the newer part of my kitchen a couple of years back, and it seems to me to have made a bit of difference in temperature control in both summer and winter. As the ...

Is your house built over an unheated crawl space? And if so, are your crawl space vents open or closed right now? It turns out that the issue of crawl space vents is fairly complicated and even a ...

I am renovating a house and the floor in our rec room gets very cold. We have an accessible crawl space below it. I would like to put up unfaced insulation between the floor joists and lay carpeting ...

Should I close my crawl space vents for winter? We seem to get this question around this time every year. And, each year we say, “it depends.” On the one hand, air circulating under the house helps ...