Should Crawl Spaces Be Insulated?

Crawl spaces insulated with the correct material do two important things: maintain cleanliness within your space and save energy. 

Keeping Your Crawl Space Clean 

As mentioned, it’s important to keep your crawl space clean if you want to stay ahead of any potential damage to your home. A clean crawl space, after all, is a crawl space that’s less likely to take on moisture. 

Insulation, like the synthetic insulation material, ExTremeBloc™, keeps your home temperature-controlled and prevents mold or rot from growing and spreading. This type of insulation creates a physical and chemical barrier between your home and the outdoors, making it significantly more difficult for water as a liquid or a gas to make its way into your crawl space. 

Cutting Your Energy Bills 

Insulation also helps keep the temperature within your crawl space more consistent. This is a boon not only for your energy bills but for the overall structural integrity of your home and crawl space, as well. 

The colder it gets in your home, the more likely your pipes are to develop leaks. Similarly, any water that gets absorbed into your supports will freeze should the temperatures in your crawl space drop below freezing. Frozen water can expand to be up to nine percent larger than its normal size, meaning your supports can develop cracks and other damage much more rapidly than they would if temperatures within your crawl space were more consistent. In short, crawl space insulation prevents the kind of crawl space damage that might put your home at risk and cost you a significant amount of money to repair.