Hi - I have a 1920s home that has brick columns in the crawl space. Previous owner had the crawl encapsulated and the wrap goes up a couple of feet on the columns. I am seeing heavy efflorescence on the exposed brick and mortar joints. The columns are in the middle of the crawl space.
The mortar is clearly old and needs to be repointed. Would this fix the issue and old mortar promotes efflorescence?
Is it possible that the encapsulation is causing excess moisture at the columns as it is trapping moist air under the wrap and this is more of a factor?
Thanks for the advice.
The mortar is clearly old and needs to be repointed. Would this fix the issue and old mortar promotes efflorescence?
Is it possible that the encapsulation is causing excess moisture at the columns as it is trapping moist air under the wrap and this is more of a factor?
Thanks for the advice.
