Hello!
I put an offer on a house and will be having someone look at the problem in a few days but any extra advice/suggestions would be great! The house has a crawl space with a sum pump which has been turned off for a long time (it interfered with her tv or something). I went down there and the soil is moist, orange in the middle, dark on the outer part. The walls are also damp in some places. I didn't see or smell any mold or rotting wood but apparently, when it rains the water will go up a bit, then back down, and this has been going on for at least 8 years with "no problems" but I don't know how much damage this could have caused to the foundations. There are no downsprouts and there's one vent but it's blocked with fiberglass - and the crawlspace is about 5 feet deep and 15x10, the house being in an area of extensive clay soils as I have just found out.
I don't know if this sounds like a definite 'no-no' to anyone familiar with this stuff or if it sounds like a 'maybe, but...' - any comments would be greatly appreciated as I am just now learning about all this stuff...
Thanks!
I put an offer on a house and will be having someone look at the problem in a few days but any extra advice/suggestions would be great! The house has a crawl space with a sum pump which has been turned off for a long time (it interfered with her tv or something). I went down there and the soil is moist, orange in the middle, dark on the outer part. The walls are also damp in some places. I didn't see or smell any mold or rotting wood but apparently, when it rains the water will go up a bit, then back down, and this has been going on for at least 8 years with "no problems" but I don't know how much damage this could have caused to the foundations. There are no downsprouts and there's one vent but it's blocked with fiberglass - and the crawlspace is about 5 feet deep and 15x10, the house being in an area of extensive clay soils as I have just found out.
I don't know if this sounds like a definite 'no-no' to anyone familiar with this stuff or if it sounds like a 'maybe, but...' - any comments would be greatly appreciated as I am just now learning about all this stuff...
Thanks!