We just wrapped up a floor support job down in Dalton City, and it's a good example of what comprehensive floor repair actually looks like. Ten floor jacks total. Three under the main beam, three under the kitchen, three under the family room, and one extra where the homeowner's planning to install a large fish tank.
We're down in Dalton City today finishing up a floor support project. This customer already had us out to install a full drainage system, then we encapsulated her crawl space and got the humidity under control with a dehumidifier.
So we just wrapped up a basement waterproofing job here in Central Illinois. You can see where we busted out the concrete around the perimeter, installed the drainage system, and connected everything to a new sump pit with battery backup.
It's Friday afternoon, and I'm driving between appointments thinking about the weekend with my family. Just got off the phone with a homeowner who asked me a question I hear all the time: "Why crawl spaces? I mean, they're nasty. Why would you want to do this work?"
I'm standing in a crawl space in Decatur, Illinois, and the homeowner who called me has a problem. They already paid a contractor thousands of dollars for encapsulation work. But the house still smells musty. The humidity is still out of control. And they want to know why.
We're on the home stretch of a crawl space encapsulation here in Bloomington, getting the dehumidifier set up and fixing a condensate drain issue we found during installation. I get asked all the time: "Is a dehumidifier really necessary? Can't I just do the encapsulation and save some money?" Here's the honest answe
It's a rainy day here in Central Illinois, and I'm doing what I always do when the skies open up: checking sump pumps. I've learned over the years that rainy days like this are exactly when sump pumps decide to quit. Not on sunny days when you'd never notice. Right when you actually need them working.
We got a call from our friends at Pure Maintenance about a crawl space in Charleston. Standing water everywhere. Serious mold growth. And a family upstairs dealing with health reactions because of what was happening below their feet.
You've probably seen a lot of our finished work—clean crawl spaces, bright white vapor barrier, everything looking perfect. But we wanted to show you what happens before we get to that point.
