Dave Hoh's Home Comfort & Energy Experts Before & After Photos

We are currently at a residence in Cliffwood, NJ, addressing the homeowner's concerns about cold floors and drafts. The basement was experiencing moisture and air leakage, affecting the overall comfort of the home. Our team took corrective action by applying spray foam to the rim joists, preventing air infiltration into the house. This straightforward solution not only enhances energy efficiency but also contributes to a more comfortable living environment, potentially leading to cost savings on energy bills for the homeowners.

The before photo shows a typical crawl space that meets local building code. However if left as is, this would create moisture, mold, rot and indoor air quality problems.  The crawl is vented and has a 6 mil plastic liner, as per local code. The problem is that warm air moves moves toward colder air. Warm summer air moves through the vents into nice cool crawl space. As the warm air cools, the relative humidity rises 2.2% for every degree it cools. The result is high levels of moisture, on all surfaces, condensation on wood framing, fiberglass insulation and actual pooling on top of the plastic liner.  Water below a house is bad!   You can see where all the summer time puddles evaporated on top of the liner. That moisture went directly into the living space. In winter conditions the air blows right through open vents freezing floors above.

The AFTER picture shows our patented Clean Space crawl encapsulation system and properly insulated crawl space walls. The result is a dry, clean,warm crawl space year round. Reducing energy consumption, improving indoor air quality and protecting the house...

This was a NJ code compliant insulated crawl space.

The before picture shows a typical plastic liner over the earth floor in the crawl. The entire 1200 sq ft of plastic had water pooling on top of it. This was occuring due to warm air migrating towards the cool crawl space all summer long. As the warm air cools the relative humidity increases and condensation happens on every surface. This created a mold condition within less than 2 years of the crawl space being insulated with fiberglass and the liner put down.

The after picture shows our patented CLEAN SPACE crawl encapsulation system, that prevents such moisture problems in a crawl space, will help detect any plumbing leaks, improves the comfort above (warm floors in the winter) and greatly reduces energy consumption. 

This customer in the Silver Ridge development in Toms River NJ found that the crawl spaces in her new home had major concerns. The #1 concern was that there was no insulation in a fully vented crawl space. The second concern was that the moisture level in this crawl space could buckle wood floors above, develop mold, and make the house smell musty in the summer.

The best solution was to have Dave Hoh's Home Comfort & Energy Experts install a patented CLEANSPACE crawl space encapsulation system. This method resulted in a very dry, warm, clean and safe crawl space that will last throughout the life of her home.    

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This homeowner retired to the Holiday City-Berkeley neighborhood in Toms River, NJ. The owner contacts us because their house felt cold and drafty during the winter. Our customer also had concerns about the attics old fiberglass insulation being inadequate.

When our team inspected the owner’s attic we found the attic was not air sealed and was poorly insulated with old fiberglass insulation. Our team spray foamed the rim joists and properly air sealed the attics gaps, holes and soffits with our orange ZypFoam sealant. Finally our crew built catwalk dams to contain our Blown-in TruSoft Cellulose insulation. After we Blown-in our TruSoft Cellulose insulation we clean the attic up so the owner can enjoy their properly insulted attic.

Our customer now has a more comfortable and energy efficient house.