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Hardwood Floors Cupping Crawl Space. The following article explains how moisture develops in a vented crawl space, what moisture does to hardwood flooring, who's responsible for moisture damaged hardwood flooring and how to prevent crawl space moisture. You should avoid installing hardwood over a crawl space if the bottoms of the floor joists are closer than.
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Hardwood floors over crawl spaces often experience cupping problems in the summer. Conditioning the crawl space is the final goal in sealing a crawl space. Regular 3/4 flooring or not you always have to maintain proper crawl space ventilation and you should have some sort of humidity level control, because even any excessive rise in moisture underneath will transfer to subfloor, then to floor.and the flooring will cup.
As per your request, i visited the subject residence today to evaluate mold or fungus growth on the floor joists.
Our house is over a crawl space. Usually when readings like the above are found some evidence of the moisture source will be obvious, especially in a crawl space, when the full inspection procedure is. This results in uneven moisture levels on the upper. It should be undertaken only after you have exhausted all other possible options for accessing this space.
