About Raleigh Crawlspace Pros
Crawl space repair, encapsulation and waterproofing for Raleigh-Durham homes.
What we cover
Raleigh Crawlspace Pros is about one part of the house: the crawl space. Triangle crawl spaces share a set of problems - humid summer air coming through open vents, red clay that a building lot has compacted and graded toward the foundation, and framing that has spent decades over damp soil - and every page here starts from those conditions.
The services covered:
- Crawl Space Repair
- Encapsulation
- Vapor Barrier Installation
- Waterproofing & Drainage
- Mold Remediation
- Dehumidifier Installation
- Insulation Replacement
- Basement Waterproofing
Where
Raleigh, Cary, Garner, Apex, Holly Springs, Wake Forest, Durham and Chapel Hill, and 12 more communities - 20 communities in all, across Wake, Durham, Orange, Johnston, Chatham, Franklin counties. Each area page covers that town's housing stock, soils and permit office.
What to expect from a request
Tell us what you are seeing and we will follow up to schedule your free crawl space inspection. No obligation to hire. You describe what you are seeing and your ZIP code on the request form; we follow up to schedule the inspection; the visit checks for water, humidity, wet or damaged framing and the state of the ground cover, insulation and ducts; and anything the crawl space needs comes back as a written quote. Submitting a request costs nothing. How it works sets out each step and what to have in hand afterwards.
Checking a contractor's license
North Carolina requires a general contractor license for projects of $40,000 or more, which most single crawl space jobs fall below. Whoever quotes your job, check the business on the quote against the state register before you sign anything: North Carolina Licensing Board for General Contractors .
Ask for the license number, the name it is held under, and a certificate of liability insurance sent by the insurer. A quote that will not name the business behind it is worth questioning. Checking a contractor's license walks through the search.
How the guides are researched
The guidance on this site is written against primary sources, and each page names the ones it rests on. The code and permit explanations come from the North Carolina Residential Code (the 2018 edition in force, Sections R408 and R409) and the NC Office of the State Fire Marshal's rule that converting to a closed crawl space needs a permit regardless of job cost. Soil and drainage descriptions come from USDA-NRCS Official Series Descriptions for the series that actually underlie the area. Crawl space humidity research comes from Advanced Energy, the Raleigh non-profit whose DOE-funded closed-crawl-space work informed North Carolina's provisions.
Cost figures are handled separately and more cautiously. They are published ranges gathered from cited sources, not quotes and not a price for your house. Each row on the cost tables names its sources and the date they were last checked, and where sources disagree the table says so rather than averaging the disagreement away. Only an on-site assessment produces a real price. The methodology page explains how each figure is checked, and the corrections log records every published figure that was later fixed.
Illustrations on this site are illustrations, not photographs of particular jobs.
What we do not publish
- Reviews, star ratings or testimonials. None have been collected, so none are shown.
- Counts of jobs completed, customers served or years in business.
- A street address or a walk-in office.
Contact
Questions, corrections or a request to remove your details: hello@raleighcrawlpros.com. If you think something on this site is wrong, tell us and we will correct it.
Raleigh Crawlspace Pros is operated by H. Mae LLC. See also how it works, our privacy policy, terms of use and disclaimer.
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