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Crawl space versus slab, which is better?

...basement with ICF walls is a far better way than the mold-inviting normal practice of trapping moisture in basement walls with a vapor barrier. A crawl space is a just a short basement, so if you did it with ICF then kudos to you for a good design, but in general we find the very notion of a crawl space a bad building ...

Posted by Doug Bennett Jan. 5, 2025 Foundation and basement improvements 1 response