Foundation Ventilation
Your foundation is arguably the most important part of your home. If your foundation is compromised through moisture damage, the entire structure of your home is also susceptible to damage. For this reason, foundation ventilation should be a priority for homeowners.
Why It’s Important to Protect Your Foundation From Moisture
Moisture that’s allowed to sit around the foundation creates a variety of problems. First and foremost, it can enter and expand cracks, as mentioned. Beyond this, water can seep into your crawl space, where it accelerates mold growth and wood rot, and where it serves as a water source for pests like termites, rodents, and snakes. Here’s why it’s important to protect your foundation from moisture.
- Prevent Structural Damage — Wood and water don’t mix well. When wood sits in moisture, it begins to rot. Over time, your sub-structure starts to deteriorate. Combining with moisture damage is the impact of termites. Termites thrive in moist, humid environments, and as they eat away at your wood, the damage compromises your sub-structure.
- Avoid Mold — Mold colonies expand quickly in moist areas where they have access to wood and insulation, making your crawl space an ideal habitat.
- Protect From Pests — Water attracts pests of all kinds, including snakes and rodents. Allowed to thrive, pests can do their own damage to your home.
More on Mold
Why is mold in your crawl space such a problem? Although most homeowners never go into their crawl spaces, mold can seriously affect human health. Mold spores can easily travel through the air as it rises up from the crawl space into the upper levels of your home, where you and your family live.
Mold spores can cause a variety of physical symptoms, including coughing, headaches, and eye irritation. For people who have allergies, these symptoms can be severe.
The presence of mold can also affect your home’s value. If mold isn’t dealt with, it can impact the stability of the wood in your sub-structure. And home buyers don’t want to find out that there’s a mold problem in a house they’re considering.
How Foundation Ventilation Works to Prevent Moisture
Standard vents are inadequate for the humid South. They simply allow more humid air into the crawl space. Auto Temp-Vents are a solution that operate automatically, reacting to the air temperature to facilitate the flow of air. These vents allow air to flow but don’t allow pests to enter.
If your home requires extra venting power, we recommend Powered Temp-Vents. They’re designed for areas that need a higher rate of airflow and for areas that are hard to vent. These vents, while extremely effective, don’t demand much electricity, keeping your energy bill low.
We also install new openings for additional vents in the foundation if they’re needed. And we add foundation vent wells to prevent vents from accumulating dirt and debris.
Foundation Ventilation Protects Your Home
Foundation ventilation is an important step to protect your home from a variety of threats, from mold to termites to wood rot. Combined with a moisture barrier or encapsulation, it can give you peace of mind that your crawl space is safe from moisture and humidity.
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19:56 13 Sep 22
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18:13 06 Apr 22
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13:51 06 Mar 22
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17:20 17 Feb 22
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20:32 14 Jan 22
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19:50 04 Jan 22
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17:01 03 Jan 22
I have been using Putnam Pest Management for more than 5 years now. They are extremely responsive, we have them come on a quarterly basis and they are always on time, thorough and alert us to any potential problems. In between treatments, they always come back and retreat on the rare occasion when that has been needed. there has never been a cost for re treatment. I highly reccomend this company.
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14:41 07 Sep 21
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17:47 15 Aug 21
We just purchased a home that was treated by these guys back in May for a termite infestation. When we moved in, we called them back to make sure we were still termite free and to treat the rest of the home for a variety of insects. The home sat empty for a while before we moved in so we wanted to make sure we didn't stir anything up and that we were protected just in case. Aaron was nice, polite, and professional. He was on time and made sure to go through all the options with me as far as quarterly service. We all feel better knowing the house is protected and bug free. The office staff was great when my husband called to make the appt. Would definitely recommend these guys. 👍
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14:56 25 Jun 21
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17:53 21 May 21
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15:23 28 Apr 21
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13:13 22 Feb 21
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16:14 31 Dec 20
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13:09 29 Sep 20
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23:37 26 Aug 20
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14:50 05 Aug 20
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18:43 08 Feb 20
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13:45 30 Jan 20
Thank you, Richard, for being very thorough and professional along with going above and beyond for the termite service! All at a very fair price! Keep hiring and training people with high standards. We don't see this today unfortunately. Kim was extremely helpful and very friendly too! I definitely recommend this company for all your pest concerns and problems!!
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15:47 18 Sep 19
They are very good at what they do!. I moved into an older mobile home that had a bad roach problem. Contacted Putman they came right out. I have noticed a huge reduction in the roaches after just 1 visit. Signed up for the quarterly pest control, they came out free of charge before my next scheduled visit to treat again. I have no doubt my problem will soon be completely eliminated. (note: the previous tenants did nothing as far as pest control so it was a problem) The prices are very reasonable and the technician that comes out is beyond friendly and professional. He is also very knowledgeable and explained the whole process to me. Im glad I chose Putman and highly recommend them if you are in need of pest control services. They also treat the outside of the house. Thanks for your hard work!
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18:36 16 Sep 19
I’ve been using Putman Pest Control for several years for my quarterly service and I’ve always been impressed their level of service and professionalism. Aaron is thorough, friendly and knowledgeable. He, Kim and the entire team have been very good to work with.
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18:44 28 Aug 19
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04:12 29 Jun 19
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01:10 28 Mar 19
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16:17 25 Mar 19
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17:43 12 Feb 19
Our Tech Aaron always does a great job! He is very friendly, courteous, dependable and knowledgeable.
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16:15 10 Feb 19
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17:17 01 Oct 18
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00:36 21 Sep 18
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13:40 13 Sep 18
Professional, prompt service. Marty and Richard are courteous, friendly and knowledgeable! After treating our home initially, Richard called us every year around our anniversary date to schedule an annual maintenance check, without our having to keep up with it. He arrived on time, inspected the entire crawl space thoroughly and even alerted us to small non-pest-related maintenance issues (insulation which needing tacking back up, etc.) We appreciate Putman's excellent service and commitment to keeping our home safe from pests and other problems. Call them before getting quotes from anyone else. They are top-notch.
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18:12 19 Aug 18
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18:08 26 Jul 18
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17:47 20 Jul 18
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00:08 11 Jul 18
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18:55 17 Apr 18
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19:37 20 Mar 18
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18:36 19 Feb 18
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16:24 21 Aug 15
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