tim5055 Posted March 9, 2015 Report Share Posted March 9, 2015 Well, I spent the weekend in the crawl space of our new house installing pipe/wire for a central vacuum system. The old house I could walk around in most of the crawl, this house not so much. Most areas if I'm lucky I can get on hands and knees, the rest it slithering like a snake. I just want to say I have a lot of respect for you who are willing to do this. If it wasn't my house I don't think you could pay me enough to go in those places. As an aside, the inspector who did this house for us pointed out the eforvesecence (I don't think I spelled that right) on the block at the front of the house. I found that the gutter installer just stuck the downspouts in the dirt rather than pipe them somewhere. I fixed that already no even with our heavy rain/snow lately the crawl was nice and dry. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Marc Posted March 9, 2015 Report Share Posted March 9, 2015 The willingness to enter an ominous crawl is what separates the men from the boys. Marc Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kurt Posted March 9, 2015 Report Share Posted March 9, 2015 Or more accurately, those with high functioning frontal lobes, or not. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jim Baird Posted March 9, 2015 Report Share Posted March 9, 2015 ...it's funny to me how many people, when I tell them I am a crawlspace diver, wonder about snakes in those places. I have never seen a live snake in one. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kurt Posted March 9, 2015 Report Share Posted March 9, 2015 Snakes aren't a problem. Rats, otoh....... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bill Kibbel Posted March 9, 2015 Report Share Posted March 9, 2015 Effervescence is little fizzy bubbles. Your foundation might have efflorescence. I see snakes occasionally, sometimes in living areas of the home too. I usually run away screaming like a little girl. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tim5055 Posted March 9, 2015 Author Report Share Posted March 9, 2015 Effervescence is little fizzy bubbles. Your foundation might have efflorescence. Hey, I admitted up front about the spelling...... But, I do like fizzy bubbles, usually in an Appleton Reserve & Coke Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
palmettoinspect Posted March 9, 2015 Report Share Posted March 9, 2015 I'm with Kurt on this one, Snakes aren't so bad, it's the rats that I hate! I see quite a few snakes! Worst thing I've ever seen under a home is an Alligator! Might sound scary, but they're the norm around here. The crawlspace is just on the other side of my shoulder and wide open in the picture below. Click to Enlarge 59.37 KB Click to Enlarge 44.68 KB Click to Enlarge 45.98 KB Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AHI in AR Posted March 10, 2015 Report Share Posted March 10, 2015 I'm with Kurt on this one, Snakes aren't so bad, it's the rats that I hate! I see quite a few snakes! Worst thing I've ever seen under a home is an Alligator! Might sound scary, but they're the norm around here. The crawlspace is just on the other side of my shoulder and wide open in the picture below. Click to Enlarge 59.37 KB Click to Enlarge 44.68 KB Click to Enlarge 45.98 KB I agree. Well, not about the alligator part since they are decidedly not the norm around here. But I'd rather face a snake in a crawlspace than a rat any day. King snakes, rat snakes and their ilk are no threat. And honestly, there have been very few snakes. In fact, I see more shed snake skins in attics than crawlspaces yet nobody ever asks me if there are snakes in the attic. As I told a client who DID have a snake-in-residence in the crawlspace: A snake in your crawlspace is there most likely because he feeds on the rodents living there. Rodents do a LOT of damage. Snakes don't. Your choice. Oh yeah...always look up! Click to Enlarge 34 KB Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tim5055 Posted March 10, 2015 Author Report Share Posted March 10, 2015 Oh yeah...always look up! Click to Enlarge 34 KB I'm glad I didn't see that photo until I was done in the crawl..... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
John Kogel Posted March 10, 2015 Report Share Posted March 10, 2015 Or more accurately, those with high functioning frontal lobes, or not. Yeah, guys with vivid imaginations don't qualify. [] I crawled right over a dead dog once. He was squeezed right up against a drain pipe. Then I had to go back the way I came. Another time a dead squirrel was stinking the place up. I mentioned it and said it would dry out pretty quick. Nope, a week later the realtor needed me to map the location of the squirrely cadaver. That was also the last time I saw her too. [] Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rob Amaral Posted March 10, 2015 Report Share Posted March 10, 2015 Worst thing I ran into a was a yellow jacket nest.. AFTER I had suited-up and entered a narrow cellar-window-sized opening... that was not fun... Tyvek prevented the stings.. but the bruise I got on the way out... ouch.. ! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Scottpat Posted March 10, 2015 Report Share Posted March 10, 2015 What I dislike the most in crawlspaces are crickets(cave or camel crickets) and the occasional frog. Nothing is worse than to be in a crawl and look up and see a few dozen crickets that then decide to start jumping or the surprise one gets when a frog decides to jump and hit you in the back or head! Yes, at moments like this I turn into a thirteen year old girly girl! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gtblum Posted March 10, 2015 Report Share Posted March 10, 2015 I think the worst thing I've crawled through, was the immediate discovery of a loose connection in a plumbing waste pipe when the client knowing I was going under, felt comfortable enough to try out a bathroom. Timing is everything. Talk about an unpleasant ride home! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jim Baird Posted March 10, 2015 Report Share Posted March 10, 2015 ...scariest for me was a hand-dug well whose concrete cap had fallen down in. Don't know how deep past concrete cap. (This has happened twice). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kurt Posted March 10, 2015 Report Share Posted March 10, 2015 "It rubs the lotion on its skin or else it gets the hose again....." Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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