Stop Guessing. Start Testing.
Problems we solve
What’s above and below the house explains a lot of what happens inside it.
Crawlspaces, basements and attics are connected to your living space whether anyone planned it that way or not. Air moves between them all day.
Sound familiar?
You don’t live down there. Your air does.
Warm air rises and leaves the top of a house, and that pulls replacement air in at the bottom. In a lot of homes that replacement air comes straight out of a crawlspace or a basement — with its temperature, its humidity and its smell.
Put ductwork in one of those spaces and the connection gets stronger. The rooms connected to them end up inheriting conditions from a space nobody ever looks at.
What people tell us
- A musty smell you notice most on the ground floor
- A crawlspace that’s damp, or has standing water
- Insulation hanging down between the floor joists
- An attic that’s brutally hot, with ducts running through it
- Condensation or rust on ductwork or foundation walls
- Cold floors in winter, clammy air in summer
You don’t have to have all of these. One is enough to be worth testing.
What usually causes it
How those spaces reach the rest of the house
These are the causes we find most often. Our testing reveals what those causes are.
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A vented crawlspace in a humid climate
brings warm, wet outdoor air under a cool floor, which is where condensation starts.
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Ductwork in an attic or a crawlspace
gains and loses heat where you don’t want it, and leaks straight into that space.
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Open connections to the living space
rim joists, chases and hatches let those spaces feed air straight into the rooms next to them.
Watch — free on YouTube
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Basements, Crawl Spaces & Slabs: Your Humidity & Comfort Problems Start Here!
What each foundation type does to the house above it, and what to do about yours.
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How we find it
We test the connection, not just the space.
We choose the tests based on your house and what it’s doing. Not every house needs every test.
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Pressure diagnostics
Show whether the house is pulling air up out of the crawlspace or basement, and how strongly.
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Temperature, humidity and dew point
Taken on each floor, so we can compare those spaces with the rooms you live in.
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Thermal imaging
Finds the hot and cold surfaces that show where air is leaking, where insulation isn’t working, and where things are wet.
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Building envelope inspection
Walls, ceilings, floors, doors and windows — the insulation, air and vapor barriers, and the ground cover under the crawlspace.
What you get
An answer you can act on.
One to three days after the visit you get a video Home Performance Report — a walkthrough of your own house showing what we tested, what it means, and what we’d do about it, in the order we’d do it.
In your report folder
- Video Home Performance Report
- Every photo and video from the inspection
- Thermal images
- Your test results
- Prioritized recommendations
- Product links
- Local contractors we trust
Then it’s your call. Do it yourself, hand the report to your own contractor, or have us manage the work. See what an inspection covers.
Stop Guessing.
Start Testing.
If the crawlspace or the attic is the problem, you’ll feel it in the rooms connected to them. Let’s test both.
Or call (502) 509-2865 · Tell us what’s going on