Moisture
in crawlspaces is a common problem that leads to fungus, dust mites, critters
and other various kinds of damages. If fungus starts to take place in your
basement, it can cause many health risks as well as several structural damages
to your building. The humidity leads to insects and termites that can destroy
your wooden shingles and other basement materials made up of wood. Due to the
food chain effects, along with insects, the moist basements also attract
spiders, rats and snakes. These species make their homes in your crawlspaces,
they take birth, live and die there causing so many health hazards and damages to
your home.
There
is one solution to these problems and that is to prevent the moisture from
penetrating our building and for this it is important to understand how
moisture enters your home and via which places. The humidity enters via
underpinnings, gaps between underpinning and walls, cracks in walls and venting
crawl spaces, etc. The humidity in a basement is natural and eventually it is
evaporated into a building.
Plastic sheeting vapor barriers help to get rid of this problem as they seal the
underpinning off from the air and the earth, preventing the humidity and moisture
from entering the building. These mil plastic sheetings are thick polyethylene
film, that are manufactured in a variety of qualities and colors. The most
common types of these plastic sheeting barriers are: 6 mill, 8 mill, 12 mill
and 20 mill, and all these sheetings have different qualities and capabilities.
If
you are about to build a new home or any other building, then do not forget to
consult the professionals providing mil plastic sheeting vapor barriers in
order to have your home protected and safe against the humidity comes from the
earth, fungus, insects and termites.
