{"id":326069,"date":"2017-10-11T10:56:10","date_gmt":"2017-10-11T10:56:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/leedpoints.com\/?guid=b10f0bd0b538380191f5d0560065a650"},"modified":"2017-10-11T10:56:10","modified_gmt":"2017-10-11T10:56:10","slug":"four-sources-of-crawl-space-moisture","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/leedpoints.com\/green-building-blog\/four-sources-of-crawl-space-moisture\/","title":{"rendered":"Four Sources of Crawl Space Moisture"},"content":{"rendered":null,"protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div>\n<div>Prime:&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div>\n<div>\n                     prime        <\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<div>Subtitle:&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div>\n<div>\n                    To stop moisture problems in vented crawl spaces, you have to know where the moisture comes from        <\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<div>Images:&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div>\n<div>\n                    <a href=\"http:\/\/www.greenbuildingadvisor.com\/articles\/dept\/building-science\/four-sources-crawl-space-moisture\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.greenbuildingadvisor.com\/sites\/default\/files\/imagecache\/blog-river\/crawl-space-encapsulation-moisture-problem-mystery-gutter-downspout-2_0.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"Crawl space moisture\" width=\"144\" height=\"108\"><\/a>        <\/div>\n<div>\n                    <a href=\"http:\/\/www.greenbuildingadvisor.com\/articles\/dept\/building-science\/four-sources-crawl-space-moisture\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.greenbuildingadvisor.com\/sites\/default\/files\/imagecache\/blog-river\/crawl-space-moisture-sources-leaks.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"Air conditioner condensate line leaking in a crawl space\" width=\"144\" height=\"108\"><\/a>        <\/div>\n<div>\n                    <a href=\"http:\/\/www.greenbuildingadvisor.com\/articles\/dept\/building-science\/four-sources-crawl-space-moisture\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.greenbuildingadvisor.com\/sites\/default\/files\/imagecache\/blog-river\/crawl-space-soil-moisture-source.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"Soil as a crawl space moisture source\" width=\"144\" height=\"131\"><\/a>        <\/div>\n<div>\n                    <a href=\"http:\/\/www.greenbuildingadvisor.com\/articles\/dept\/building-science\/four-sources-crawl-space-moisture\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.greenbuildingadvisor.com\/sites\/default\/files\/imagecache\/blog-river\/crawl-space-moisture-sources-foundation-walls.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"Water coming through crawl space foundation walls\" width=\"144\" height=\"108\"><\/a>        <\/div>\n<div>\n                    <a href=\"http:\/\/www.greenbuildingadvisor.com\/articles\/dept\/building-science\/four-sources-crawl-space-moisture\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.greenbuildingadvisor.com\/sites\/default\/files\/imagecache\/blog-river\/crawl-space-foundation-vent-moisture-source.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"Foundation vents as a crawl space moisture source\" width=\"144\" height=\"108\"><\/a>        <\/div>\n<div>\n                    <a href=\"http:\/\/www.greenbuildingadvisor.com\/articles\/dept\/building-science\/four-sources-crawl-space-moisture\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.greenbuildingadvisor.com\/sites\/default\/files\/imagecache\/blog-river\/crawl-space-encapsulation-iaq-unexpected-benefit.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"Encapsulated crawl space\" width=\"144\" height=\"108\"><\/a>        <\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>Here in the southeastern U.S., we have a lot of crawl spaces. Most are vented. Even most new ones are vented. It&#8217;s not because it&#8217;s the best way to keep them dry. That&#8217;s certainly not true. We have enough research on crawl spaces to know better. No, they&#8217;re vented because foundation vents got into the code decades ago and, once there, they&rsquo;ve been difficult to dislodge.<\/p>\n<p>So if you have a vented crawl space, especially in a humid climate, it most likely has moisture problems. And where does that moisture come from? Let&#8217;s take a look.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.greenbuildingadvisor.com\/articles\/dept\/building-science\/four-sources-crawl-space-moisture\" target=\"_blank\">read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[13304,9392,13395,13664,8821],"class_list":["post-326069","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-green-building-posts","tag-condensation","tag-crawl-space","tag-dew-point","tag-moisture-entry","tag-relative-humidity"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/leedpoints.com\/green-building-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/326069","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/leedpoints.com\/green-building-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/leedpoints.com\/green-building-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/leedpoints.com\/green-building-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/leedpoints.com\/green-building-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=326069"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/leedpoints.com\/green-building-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/326069\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/leedpoints.com\/green-building-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=326069"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/leedpoints.com\/green-building-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=326069"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/leedpoints.com\/green-building-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=326069"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}