COLUMBIA, S.C. - Many building codes in the southeastern United States call for increased attic and crawl space ventilation to fight moisture and related IAQ problems. Craig DeWitt, Ph.D., P.E., ...

Ask any bug: There's no place like a warm crawl space to spend the cold winter months. Why huddle beneath some freezing leaf when you can snuggle under a house that a human pays to heat? Of course, ...

Q: More than 40 years ago, I read an article about a man who heated his small home by centralizing the source of heat into the crawl space. Each room had a floor register placed under a window, and ...

You likely know if your home has a crawl space, but what’s inside that crawl space may be a mystery. After all, the idea of slithering around a dirt floor and potentially encountering insects, spiders ...

As winter approaches, it is important to have your home’s heating system cleaned and inspected before you use it. “Firing up your furnace for the first time without having it properly serviced can ...

Q: I read your online response about crawl space vents. I found it very informative. I reside on the coast. My house is located on a lagoon off the inner coastal waterway. The crawl space floor is ...

We all have heard that duct leakage is bad for system performance and loss of energy. A Department of Energy (DOE) report states, “Most duct systems lose 25-40 percent of the energy.” Meanwhile, the ...