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Most people think radon mitigation is pretty simple - drill a hole, stick in a fan, run some pipe to the roof. Done. But that's not how it works if you want a system that actually protects your family. I just finished installing a radon mitigation system here in Knoxville, and like every installation we do, it involve

This morning, I got a call from a realtor. She had buyers interested in a home, but the inspection flagged fungal growth and moisture in the crawl space. Her solution? "I think all we need is a vapor barrier and a fungus treatment."

Every time a storm rolls into Knoxville, my phone starts ringing. Homeowners want to know if they need a battery backup for their sump pump. It's a fair question - nobody wants to wake up to a flooded crawl space because the power went out during heavy rain.

I was out in Powell yesterday checking on some work we did about eight months ago. The property owner called us back to make some adjustments to the jacks we installed, and honestly, I was excited to see how everything held up.

A customer called me a few years back about her crawl space. She'd already paid a big company - one of those billboard companies you see everywhere - to do a full encapsulation. But something wasn't right.

I just finished a job in Jefferson City that shows exactly why preparation matters. When we first opened the crawl space door, we found nearly a century of accumulated debris. Construction waste, old materials, leftover supplies - everything that every contractor over the years had left behind.

I was out in Knoxville yesterday doing a yearly maintenance check on a crawl space we fixed for a customer. The previous company - one of the big billboard guys - had done such poor work that we ended up replacing everything they installed.

We're out here in Knoxville today installing helical piers around a foundation that's showing signs of settlement. You can see the cracks in the foundation wall - clear evidence that the soil underneath has shifted.