Sealed crawl spaces can be expensive – both material and labor intensive – and then you have to condition them and possibly dehumidify them for the rest of the home’s life. That’s expensive. One alternative might be the “Old School” approach of raising the home up and continuously venting the crawl space for the life of the home. No insulation on the walls of the crawl space, no 20mil vapor barrier membrane, no conditioning or dehumidifying of those dark spaces under a home. And unlike a traditional crawl space, not having to manage whether the crawl space vents are open or closed at different times of the year (I mean, WHO DOES THAT anyway?).
At Eco-Panels we have seen a recent uptick in clients considering our floor panels instead of all of the labor and materials that goes into a sealed crawl. Few of our clients use our floor panels – they are setting their home on top of a traditional crawl space or on a slab most of the time – but we are seeing people who had been considering the closed crawl option look at our insulated floor panels more and more. If you do not need the space under the house for conditioning equipment, then it can make other choices a whole lot easier.
At Eco-Panels we can make the construction of a high-performance home both faster and easier for a builder or a DIY owner-builder with our innovative interlocking and pre-engineered structural insulated building panels. Eco-Panels are styrene-free for your family’s health and safety.
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