One trade, under Upstate houses

Why here?

Summer air in the Upstate is wet. At Greenville-Spartanburg the average July dew point is 67.6°F, and air like that turns damp as soon as it meets the cooler soil and framing under a house. Add red clay that drains slowly and lots that slope toward Keowee and Hartwell, and a lot of crawl spaces around Seneca spend the summer close to soaked.

How do we work?

Every job starts with a look under the house. We read the humidity and the moisture in the sill and joists, check for standing water, fallen insulation and mold, and take photos you can keep. Then you get a written price for the work the crawl space actually needs, which is sometimes less than full encapsulation.

On the day, the floor gets cleared, any water gets a way out, the liner goes down and up the walls with taped seams, the vents and door are sealed and the dehumidifier goes in. We leave a strip at the top of the wall open for your termite inspector. A few weeks later we read the humidity again.

What do we charge?

Full encapsulation runs about $3.50 a square foot of crawl space floor, plus about $1,600 for the dehumidifier, with a $2,500 minimum. Drainage, old insulation, mold and low headroom are priced as their own lines, so you can see what each part costs. Work out your own ballpark.

Where do we go?

Seneca first, then Walhalla, Westminster, Salem and the Lake Keowee shore, Clemson, Central and Six Mile, and Pendleton and Anderson. See every town.