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I did not know that either, Thank you. It is indeed, Complicated from my research. When In the crawlspace, The entire floor is sand. I don't know how far down it goes exactly. I feel like this was added later, potentially the same time the sand may have been placed outside. They didn't put sand...

Thanks, I’ll have to take a look and see, I’m glad to hear it’s normal to find sand around the foundation though.

When it rains hard anyway. It has a package unit, a deck and porch in the way preventing me from doing it outside for at least half the house. I have no knowledge on it, so I’m open to ideas.

that seems crazy to do, should I dig all that out? That would be the area under the house when it rains water just pours in from that general area. Personally I have never seen anything like it before. The reason I wanted to do it from the inside is because it would definitely be easier than the...

So we purchased a house about 6 months ago. When I went down into the crawl space, it’s clear moisture has caused some issues with bowing with the joists. I will sister those. I’d say it’s a 30’ or so span, with one support in the middle. They look like 2X10. Anyway, this center support holding...

Hi all, I'm new here but I've been trying to find a bit of information about our new home. It's a ranch-style home, with a gable roof, with an attached garage, new metal roof ( before we purchased it). I crawled into the attic today and can see debris along the ridge vent line on the attic...