Crawl Space Encapsulation

 

Do you have a wet damp crawl space? Do you smell musty odors coming from your crawl space? Ugly nasty, Bugs and Insects bothering you? Your floor boards feel spongy? High heating and cooling bills?

Then we have the answer for you!

Clean Shield Crawl Space Encapsulation System, which has a lifetime trasferable warranty!

Clean Shield crawl space liner is a 16 mil thick with fiber reinforcement, triple ply extrusion coated virgin polyethylene membrane. Designed to yield the highest strength to weight ratio of any product of it’s kind! But wait, we don't stop there...

1. All organic material is removed from your crawl space.
2. We pitch the crawl space slightly to form a low spot to help aid in the draining to a sump pit.
3. We install a perimeter rigid pvc drain tile with a filter sock surrounded with washed stone.
4. We install a solid sump basin with a sealed lid to help keep any soils or debris from reaching the sump pumps.
5. We install a 1/2 hp main sump pump and an ITT battery back up system, complete with a high water alarm.
6. We install our base floor membrane called Mari-Drain, a dimpled planton material which also aids in directing any water to the sump pumps.
7. We install our 2nd floor membrane called thermo insulating blanket, a state of the art insulatior/waterproofing blanket that helps control the transmission of moisture and moisture vapors making your crawlspace feel warmer.
8. We install our 3rd floor membrane, the clean shield crawl space liner. This is mechanically fastened to the footing.
9. We install the thermo insulating blanket which is mechanically fastened to the crawl space foundation walls. This helps control transmission of moisture & moisture vapors through your foundation walls, which aids in making your crawlspace feeling warmer. We stop just below the sill plate to allow for periodic inspection.
10. We install a thermo insulating blanket to the bottom of your floor joist which has been CERTIFIED BY ENERGY STAR to achieve up to an R 16.8.
11. We permanently seal any air vents.

Completely encapsulating your crawl space from the environment, adding valuable dry usable space to your home.

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Some important facts you should know!

1 - Your crawlspace should be sealed from the outside no open vents or pipes to allow cold air to infiltrate your crawlspace. Remember hot air raises, cold air sinks.
2 - Your drainage pipe should always be rigid PVC not flexible aba tile which can not be maintained should the need arise.
3 - Your warranty should be LIFETIME! That's right LIFETIME! Not 5 years or 10 years or 25 years but LIFETIME TRANSFERABLE. THAT'S WHAT SGBT OFFERS A LIFETIME TRANSFERABLE WARRANTY!

Now let's talk concrete in crawl spaces
We can do that for you too!

Here's how we do it
As with the encapsulation system, we prep the crawl space. We remove any excess debris and level the crawlspace. Next, we install a perimeter rigid PVC drainage system surrounded with washed stone complete with inspection ports. We install the sealed sump pit with a 1/2 hp main pump and the ITT battery back up system. Next we lay down a vapor barrier and pump in a slurry coat of concrete 3 to 4 inches thick with a float finish.
This process adds valuable, dry, usable space to your home!