The Insulation Mistake That's Costing You Money

I'm standing in a crawlspace in Knoxville that's tall enough to walk around in. The customers use it for storage. Christmas decorations, old furniture, boxes of stuff they don't need every day but want to keep. They called because they know the crawlspace has moisture issues. That old vapor barrier on the ground is to

I was in a crawlspace yesterday - older house, probably built in the '70s - and saw something I see all the time. Black dots all over the wood. Hundreds of them. I can't tell you how many times I've seen inspection reports with pictures of these exact dots labeled as "severe mold contamination." Then the homeowner