Make A Crawl Space Cover In Concrete Wall

Getting concrete from a truck into your crawl space is a difficult.

Make a crawl space cover in concrete wall.

In this design a concrete pad called a mud pad is poured on the crawl space floor. A temperate lower area that will keep upper floors warm while your home s foundation remains in sound condition. You might have noticed in the previous pictures that the concrete work for the crawl space was not done with much precision at all. Concrete is heavy and mixing enough by yourself to cover your entire crawl space floor and walls is out of the question.

With and with out a vapor barrier. That is 1 1 2 truckloads from a concrete truck. One of the neat things that the mason bricklayer does is carefully adjust the height of the cinder blocks and bricks with mortar thickness so that the crawl space walls end up exactly level all the way around. This is essentially a concrete barrier meant to help control moisture in the crawl space this is done several ways.

The advantages of this solution are many. The alternative to pumping concrete is a liner sealing system of the crawl space. And that leads to more mold. Hold an end of the plastic sheeting against the far end of the first crawl space wall.

Also since concrete does not provide a thermal break a temperature difference between the air and the concrete surface will cause condensation. Spread the plastic the length of the wall pulling it 2 or 3 feet past the wall end to measure the length.