Radon is a naturally occurring, radioactive gas found in soil. It is odorless, invisible and very mobile. Radon enters your home through cracks and opening's in your home's foundation. The only way to know it is there, is to have your home tested!
With high levels of rain in the PNW, most homes we visit are in need of a sump pump, and often a dehumidifier as well. To ensure their continued work, it is best to have an adequate electrical supply installed.
Water in the crawlspace? If it is just a little water, why should this be counted as a bad thing? The issue is any long term water exposure in the crawlspace leads to negative health effects on your home and the breathing air within the home.
Trying to decide what type of spray foam insulation you should use for a job? Though closed-cell and open-cell foam both insulate a home, they do it in different ways.
When water is present, we generally quote people to have a sump pump installed. A sump pump will divert collected water safely out and away from the home. To keep water moving away, we only offer the best in its class; Zoeller sump pumps.
A huge piece of waterproofing is finding a way to collect the water and push it safely away from a foundation. For a crawlspace and basement, this is the job of a sump pump.
While WaterGuard is our preferred method of waterproofing a basement, many older homes had their foundations poured with no footing. In these cases we offer the product; DryTrak, a two-stage waterproofing system to keep the basement dry without the risk of structural foundation issues.
When looking to finish a basement, we highly recommend waterproofing beforehand. For even is a leak isn't present at the time of construction, foundations settle, and topography changes which can lead to a costly and intensive restoration.
When a crawlspace entrance is located on the exterior of the home, then it needs to be able to stand up to the weather throughout the years. One product we really enjoy using for this is the Turtl.
There are over 100,000 types of mold and most are toxic. However, there are 3 types of mold that are commonly found here in the Pacific Northwest, and they have varying levels of toxicity.
Homeowners should be able to view their home as a safe space, however if your homes air quality is bad, then the home could lead to issues with asthma, allergies, and other various healthy issues. We are proud to work with homeowners in the PNW to provide healthy and fresh air from the foundation up.
To create healthy air in homes across the PNW, we have added the Aspen air purification system. This new high-performance product is proven to clean the air better than any other air purifier.
For different reasons, homeowners may opt to do a simple vapor barrier, but a full encapsulation offers many benefits, including separating your wooden piers from their footings, ensuring they stay dry and healthy through the years.
While our Drainage systems will move water safely away from your home, getting water directed down the wall without adding moisture or creating issues needs to be addressed as well. This is where our BrightWall paneling comes in, giving a clean appearance that will keep the water issues away.
Weeping water is common with porous foundation materials, and can bring a lot of water issues into a basement or crawlspace, and will get worse as time marches on.
If water tends to pool around your homes foundation this is causing excess stress on your crawlspace or basement. We want to ensure that the water is taken a safe distance away from your home, and a great place to start this, is to have proper downspout drainage installed.
Beaverton Homeowners discovered their exterior doorway had a heavy water flow leaking into their partially finished Basement. The standing water was a risk to their home, to their air quality, and the items they had in the basement.
