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I was out in Maryville today doing a crawl space inspection, and it reminded me why winter inspections are so much trickier than summer ones. In the summer, moisture problems announce themselves. Your ductwork sweats. The humidity is obviously high. You can practically feel the moisture in the air when you stick your

I was out in Maryville yesterday doing a crawl space inspection. After I finished up, I was walking back through the house to talk with the homeowners about what I found. That's when I spotted something on their basement wall that they needed to know about.

I was out in Alcoa today doing an inspection, and right there in the middle of the crawl space sat a bottle jack. Just sitting there, supposedly holding up the floor joists above.

I just wrapped up an inspection in Farragut where a homeowner called me because their crawl space dehumidifier runs constantly. They thought maybe the unit was broken or undersized. Turns out, the dehumidifier was fine - the problem was the incomplete encapsulation job someone else did.

I was out in Farragut yesterday doing an inspection for a homeowner who couldn't figure out why their crawl space kept having problems. They had musty smells upstairs, humidity that kept spiking even in winter, and they were frustrated because they'd already invested in a quality dehumidifier.

I was out in Farragut yesterday doing an inspection when I spotted something I'd never seen before - a radon mitigation fan installed horizontally as a bathroom exhaust fan.

I was out in Maryville yesterday looking at a crawl space that seemed perfectly dry. No standing water anywhere. The homeowner thought maybe they'd dodged a bullet since we haven't had heavy rain lately.

I was out in Maryville yesterday looking at a crawl space that had already been treated by a pest control company. They'd laid down a new vapor barrier and done a borate treatment on the wood to kill fungal growth. The homeowner thought everything was taken care of.