Photo Album: Warm & dry Crawlspace in Hamilton, ON

Lucas has a side split home in Hamilton, On. Part of the home has a crawlspace with a dirt floor that is cold and damp. Omni Basement Systems insulated the walls with Silverglow foam insulation and then encapsulated the dirt floor with the Cleanspace vapor barrier. This crawlspace is now warmer and dry.

Cold walls and dirt floor

This is the before picture showing debris on dirt floor and cold concrete walls.

Debris to be removed

Organic material such as building materials need to be removed first before leveling the crawlspace

Silverglo insulation panels and Drianage matting

The cold walls are taken care of witht the Silverglo foam panel insulastion. The difference between Silverglo and ordinary panel insulation is 2fold. first the the foam is infused with grafite to bump the R value and secondly, the silver finish will reflect heat back into the room and stop it from being absorbed into the solid mass concrete wall. After the rim joists will be spray foamed (Not shown)

Cleanspace Vapor barrier

The Cleanspace goes on next and gets mechanically attached to the concrete walls so it will never come off. Cleanspace is a 20mil liner that is 7 layers thick. It has a 25 year warranty and wont ever rip or come off the walls from crawling around.