Commercial dehumidifier in crawl space

[Sigarms]

A home built in an area with known crawl space/basement problems reminds me of the YOKELS up in Anchorage. After several years of intense political persuasion/pressure - the local government allowed home building in the flood plains( greenbelt ) of two local creeks.

The homes were built - the creeks iced up, overflowed and flooded these new homes.

Then is a stroke of ultimate brilliance the local government gave hard working taxpayer money to "bandaid" this situation.

This "government subsidy" situation lasted for two or three years. Now it's up to the homeowners to secure the required permits and make correction with their own money.

Life isn't quite so joyous along the greenbelt anymore.

The reality is homes were being built in the south east long before homes were being built in Alaska for white guys and white guys governement in Alaska.

Please see my post #24 per this thread.

Are you implying that the federal government is smarter than the local resident?

The reality is we learn from our mistakes and hopefully become better for those mistakes made in the past. That said, now that I'm older, I now LOVE to spend time on the NC and SC shore that is pretty laid back, yet they still build million dollar houses 50-100 yards from the shore line, and I'm no rocket scientist, and as much as I love the shore and ocean, no way in heck am I spending money to live there.

Point being, crawl space issues have become known over time, and I'd like to belive that new building codes are addressing them.

Keep in mind, even in humid climates, 50 years ago having vents for ventilation were thought to be a positive over a negative.

As much as we complain about new regulations, sometimes they are actually for the better even if they are a pain in the arse.

 

[user.69169]

All comes down to what you call de hole you dug in de ground dats fillin wid water.

Well, indoor pool, cellar, crawl space, sump pump pit all same thing. Gonna fill wid water sooner or later. You want to keep water in pool put liner inside walls. Want to keep water outside, put liner outside de walls and make dem walls thick & strong.

What you want and what you get wavin by bye to your money drivin away usually different things. Company gave your money de ride generally be gone when you find out the expensive job didn't work.

Hey Mr Salesman, you mind if I make a copy of yer driver license & video yer presentation?

 

[kenmac]

I really didn't have any standing water, or water flowing in the crawl space. It was just always humid under there due to very few vents being installed perhaps.

The dirt floor was always dry, just no cross airflow under there.
the house was built too low to the ground to add additional vents for cross air flow. So, it was a better option for me to have it encapsulate the area. I only installed a small dehumidifier from HD to take care of the humidity issues.

works for me

 

[user.69169]

Don't think you fellows understand Cajun spendin ways. Cajun got 10 bucks in his pocket he got at least 6 places to spend it, so we wear out lot of rockin chairs sittin thinkin up. Hard to blow money when you rockin and sometimes good idea pops in yer head.

Had a couple minutes hers, and remembered dat fellow tried selling them WAVE cellar dryin contraptions. He was so into showin it to me he let me look it over good. $1100- fer a computer fan and little computer board wid some stove pipe. Nice idea but not 1100 worth of nice. 5 buck computer fan, free furnace pipe off de curb, 15 bucks humidistat, and dat fan sucks damp air out de cellar when humidstat tells it to. Now (removed) got 1100 less 20 bucks in his pocket.
Rockin chair time fortrue.

OK, maybe you don't live in good neighborhood wid Curbside Supply outlet. Stovepipe not dat expensive.
Know what else, dat computer fan uses 8% de power a dehumidifier uses.

Save some fellow typin, NO, it don't just replace cold damp air wid warm damp air! Works just like Mother Nature when she blows wind to reclaim her water after rain storm. Anything not soaked in de ground gets vacum cleaned up by de wind to go fall someplace else. Besides, hot air can carry more water den cold air.

Amazoom place has a whole section for DIY basement dehuing too. Way lot cheaper den dat WAVE machine dat helps wave byeby to your money.

 

[RalphVa]

Fans (on timers) have worked in pool equipment area and basement of carriage house. Had 3 fans various locations in the crawl space. Worked well for 6 years. Problem showed up in the 7th year of encapsulation.

Now, the Santa Fe is often shut down with humidity sitting at 50%. This is even after 2 inches of rain over the weekend.

Ralph

 

[Sigarms]

Fans (on timers) have worked in pool equipment area and basement of carriage house. Had 3 fans various locations in the crawl space. Worked well for 6 years. Problem showed up in the 7th year of encapsulation.

Now, the Santa Fe is often shut down with humidity sitting at 50%. This is even after 2 inches of rain over the weekend.

Ralph

Other than having the RH set to 50 on the dehudifier, not certain why it would shut down unless 50% RH is what a crawl space should be (as noted, I don't want to know about how to solve the problem when it comes to a crawl space).

Have to laugh, people talking about pricing, some of them here would fall over dead if they saw the price on equipment only for a commercial pool dehumidifer. I was bowled over when I first got a price, and that was over 15 years ago (more than commercial HVAC equipment).

 

[user.69169]

Watched de show when local school district was putting a new roof on der pool that had a liner to keep de water in cause engineers couldn't figure out de weight of de building was transferring to de pool floor due to bad foundation calculation. Tar buggy & guy pushin it across de rotted roof hit de water same time. Good thing der was water in dat pool, cooled de tar fast and kept the roofer from getting hurt bad.

Den dey spent real money on a new pool wid a diving pool next to it and dehumidifier. No tax dollar was spared, dey even installed fire sprinklers over de new pool. If dat pool ever catches fire dem sprinklers will put it out. Danged if I know why, but school officials don't like talking bout dem sprinklers.