The Benefits of Crawl Space Waterproofing For Your Nashville Home

1/12/2018 (Permalink)

Crawl Space Waterproofing Your Nashville Property

Severe weather and torrential storms happen all year round throughout the Nashville area. Keeping your home protected from the elements and wholly waterproofed from potential storm damages or weak points in your foundation can prove difficult, especially when the point of penetration for water is not simple to determine or easy to access.

A great example of what might be difficult for an average person to access quickly would be the crawl space attached to your home. Often, this gets designed without much space to move around efficiently, and depending on when it came into existence, might have hindered exterior waterproofing efforts for your home. When this crawl space becomes the source of water damage and potential flooding, it is time to consider crawl space waterproofing for your Nashville house.

Our experienced SERVPRO team arrives and begins immediately assessing the conditions of the foundation and home structure attached to the crawl space. Understanding points of water penetration give our professionals the opportunity to seal off these points to prevent further water throughout the encapsulation process. For block work, sealing up cracks and worn areas is a combination of hydraulic and masonry cement to provide a seal that water cannot penetrate.

Since a lot of the damaging water pools up from the ground into crawl spaces, our experienced SERVPRO restoration technicians install a sump pump where the water is believed to be at its worst. The installation is a permanent one but also helps to keep the area dry through encapsulation. By covering all of the surfaces that could play a damaging role in adding to humidity with 12mm heavy plastic, the entire crawl space becomes protected from the typical pooling that has been present following severe weather events.

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The process does not take long to complete and ensures that your crawl space is entirely dried out and no longer presents a threat to flood your home or further damage structural components. If this is something that you feel like your home needs, or would like our experienced professionals to help you make that determination, give SERVPRO of South Nashville a call today at (615) 331-0200.

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