Is Crawl Space Mold a Problem?

Why this question keeps coming up

Hatches stay shut for years because the space is unpleasant. The smell gets described as the house’s personality.

What it looks like in York County

Spring Garden bungalows and East York additions are the classic hatches. If the closet over the crawl smells and the bedroom does too, you already know. Look anyway.

What to do

• Photograph the joists and the soil.
• Fix standing water and gutters.
• Install real vapor barrier, sealed.
• Remove wet fiberglass.

What makes it worse

• Close the vents and leave bare dirt.
• Spray joists and leave soaked batts.
• Store boxes on the plastic.

Start with crawl space mold.

Questions people also ask

These pages are homeowner education from Radon Mitigation of York, written by Dave Kessler. They are not a medical diagnosis, a species identification, or an insurance determination. Color does not tell you which mold you have. If someone in the house is sick, talk to a physician. EPA's homeowner guidance treats roughly 10 square feet as the line where many people stop DIY cleanup and call a remediation crew — sooner if sewage, HVAC, or anyone immunocompromised is involved. We are a radon and basement crew. When we are already under a York house we will tell you what we see and what we would do in our own place. We do not pretend a radon fan is a mold remedy.