Plastic Sheeting Vapor Barriers To Protect Your Home Against Moss, Fungus And Termite

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.