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2. Indoor mold - Wikipedia

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   Mold remediation. In a situation where there is visible mold and the indoor air quality may have been compromised, mold remediation may be needed. The first step in solving an indoor mold problem is to remove the moisture source; [19] new mold will begin to grow on moist, porous surfaces within 24 to 48 hours. There are a number of ways to ...

3. Basement waterproofing - Wikipedia

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   Waterproofing a structure from the exterior is the only method the U.S. International Building Code (IBC) recognizes as adequate to prevent structural damage caused by water intrusion. Waterproofing an existing basement begins with excavating to the bottom sides of the footings. Once excavated, the walls are then power washed and allowed to dry.

4. Crawl space - Wikipedia

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   A crawl space or crawlspace is an unoccupied, unfinished, narrow space within a building, between the ground and the first (or ground) floor. The crawl space is so named because there is typically only enough room to crawl rather than stand; anything larger than about 1 to 1.5 metres (3 ft 3 in to 4 ft 11 in) and beneath the ground floor would ...

5. Sinkholes and Roaches and Snakes, Oh My!

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   Homeowner Alan Klotz's 100-year-old Fort Worth house was flooded with an estimated 200,000 gallons of water when thieves broke into his crawl space and removed the copper piping, which is a prime ...

6. Waterproofing - Wikipedia

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   Waterproofing methods have been implemented in many types of objects, including paper packaging, cosmetics, and more recently, consumer electronics. Electronic devices used in military and severe commercial environments are routinely conformally coated in accordance with IPC-CC-830 to resist moisture and corrosion but encapsulation is needed to ...

7. Basement - Wikipedia

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   It is usually desirable to finish a crawl space with a plastic vapour barrier that will not support mold growth or allow humidity from the earth into the crawl space. This helps insulate the crawl space and discourages the habitation of insects and vermin by breaking the ecological chain in which insects feed off the mould and vermin feed on ...