Knowing whether to keep your crawl space vents open or closed at particular times of year will transform the moisture levels in your home. But get it wrong, and it could lead to wider structural ...

Q: I’m building a crawl space foundation for a small add-on to my home and was told I’d have to ventilate it. Since it is mostly dirt and concrete, is venting it really that important? What are my ...

Dear Action Line: Now that it's very hot outside, can you tell me if we are supposed to open the vents that run along the bottom of our house? Our home has a crawl space and it is very cool under the ...

Q. RE: the vents in a crawl space. I just recently had cement poured in my crawl space. There are four vents to the outside. There is also heating and air conditioning pipes there. I am confused now ...

Question: I want to cover my crawl space with a plastic moisture barrier, but I can find only the type that is 6 mil in the store. I want to buy the new 20-mil kind, but the companies that carry it ...

You should warn people that now is the time to close up their crawl space vents, if they haven't done so already. Forgetting to do so can lead to an expensive problem with frozen water pipes! -- D.K., ...

Q: We purchased a new house two years ago that has a crawl space. There are vents in the foundation that allow air to go into the crawl space. The floor is insulated, but I can’t help think that ...

I insulated the crawl space under the newer part of my kitchen a couple of years back, and it seems to me to have made a bit of difference in temperature control in both summer and winter. As the ...

The average homeowner probably spends as much time thinking about their home’s crawl space as they do about flossing. For those of us who aren’t doing that twice a day, every day, it may be time to ...