Extraction, drying, and mold remediation under the house
- Free crawlspace assessment, remote or on-site
- Emergency extraction, structural drying, and mold remediation
- Subfloor and joist readings on a live job page, updated daily
- Written moisture readings before and after, so nothing gets covered wet
- A compensated referral relationship, if you want one
Where this usually goes wrong
You go under to install a barrier or set a sump and find standing water, growth across the underside of the subfloor, and joist ends reading in the high twenties when sound framing in a dry crawl runs 8 to 15 percent. Covering that is not work you want your name on, and the customer has already paid you for the install. One thing to know before you call: Peak does mitigation and mold remediation, and Peak also installs vapor barriers and encapsulation. The wet half is what this program is for, and it is the half that has to be finished and written down before anything goes over it.
What you get
Every line here is about what your client experiences after you hand us their name, because that experience is what your referral is made of.
Emergency extraction, that day or the next
Emergency extraction, and no charge to come look first. We are under the house that day or the next, pull the standing water, find the source, and set drying on the framing. Your customer stops waiting for two schedules to line up, which is what usually turns a one-week problem into a month.
Dry wood before the plastic goes down
Never seal a wet crawlspace in place. Wood dried to a documented moisture content before the liner goes down is the difference between a space that stays clean and a service call in two years. You get the readings by location and the date the space is ready, so 12 to 20 mil goes over a verified condition rather than a hope.
Mold remediation under containment
Growth on the joists and the underside of the subfloor comes off under containment to IICRC S520: source removal, HEPA vacuuming, and sanding or media blasting where the wood needs it. Your customer gets post-remediation documentation with before-and-after readings, which is also what makes anyone's later work on that crawlspace defensible.
Rot and active moisture get told apart
Dark, twenty-year-old staining on framing that reads 12 percent is a different conversation from active intrusion and joist ends soft enough to take a screwdriver. Decay fungi need wood held up around 28 to 30 percent to do any work, and framing in a dry crawl reads 8 to 15, so a meter settles it in about a minute. We write down what it read and tell your customer which one they have, including when the honest answer is that they do not need us.
Where we overlap, and what goes back out to you
Both companies install barriers, so it is better said here than found out later: Peak installs vapor barriers and encapsulation, and so do you. The structural half is not ours. Pier and joist repair, foundation work, exterior drainage and excavation, and any job past our capacity goes out to the contractors who work with us, and on a live job your customer sees one written order of operations rather than two companies arguing in a driveway.
The partner portal
Subfloor and joist readings, updated daily
You need exactly one thing from us: the day the wood is dry enough to cover. The job page carries the daily subfloor and joist readings, so you watch them fall and set your crew off real data instead of a phone call and a maybe.
- Status
- extraction, source removal, drying, verification, ready to cover
- Readings
- daily moisture content on the subfloor and the joists, by location
- Ready date
- the specific day the framing is dry enough to cover
- Photos
- numbered and dated, before and after, for your file and the homeowner's
- Documents
- the scope and post-remediation verification, which also backs your own work later
Open on the phone while you are trying to slot the install crew without holding a truck.
The partner view of a live job
Situations we handle for you
You open the hatch to install a barrier and there is standing water and a strong musty smell.
We are under there that day or the next, at no charge to look. We extract, find the source, remediate the affected wood, and dry it. The source is usually groundwater, a failed supply line, or downspouts discharging at the foundation. Then you get the day the framing is dry enough to cover.
There is visible growth on the underside of the subfloor and the bottoms of the joists.
Containment and source removal to IICRC S520, not a coat of encapsulant sprayed over living growth. You get post-remediation documentation with before-and-after readings, which is also the thing that makes your own work defensible later.
A customer had a barrier installed years ago and now there is water sitting on top of the plastic.
We pull and dispose of the contaminated barrier, dry the space and the framing, and document it. Water on top of a barrier usually means a plumbing leak or grading, not a failed barrier. That distinction decides who is responsible for it.
You are doing foundation drainage work on a house where the space under it has been wet all winter.
We read the framing for moisture content and growth while you handle the water management outside. If a joist end is up in the twenties or a rim joist has gone soft, you hear that before you backfill, because it is cheaper to remediate while the excavator is still on site.
Referral terms
How the referral arrangement works
A crawlspace or foundation company that sends us the wet framing gets a compensated referral relationship, and plenty would rather keep it to a straight trade of referrals instead. Either is fine. Pier and joist repair, foundation work, and exterior drainage on our own jobs goes out to the contractors who work with us either way, and how the cover gets handled on a job you send is part of the same conversation, settled before there is a job to argue about. The terms get agreed in a conversation before the first job and put in writing. Nothing we pay a partner appears on a property owner's invoice, and no job is scoped or priced differently because a referral came with it.
Ask what the arrangement looks like on the first call. Compensation is never a condition of us taking a job, and you can decline it and keep every other part of the program.
Ask on the first call: (208) 391-5248Yours to hand out
Concrete things you get as a partner. Most of them exist so your client’s next question already has an answer.
- Daily subfloor and joist readings on a live job link, and (208) 391-5248 when you want a person
- Free crawlspace assessment, from photos and video you send or with a technician under the house
- Written subfloor and joist moisture readings before and after, so you install over a verified condition
- A remediation scope in line-item format you can attach to your own proposal
- The specific day the framing is dry enough to cover, in writing rather than over the phone
Questions we get
Do you install encapsulation or vapor barriers?
Yes. Peak installs vapor barriers and full encapsulation, and it is on the site under services, so you would find it in a click anyway. What a crawlspace or foundation contractor hires us for is the part before that: extraction, structural drying, and mold remediation on wood that is not ready to be covered.
So we compete on the cover?
On that piece, yes, and you should hear it from us rather than from a homeowner. What is worth having anyway is the wet half done fast and written down, a job page you and your customer both watch, and a referral arrangement where how the cover gets handled is agreed in the first conversation instead of after somebody is annoyed.
How long does drying a crawlspace take?
It depends on how much water, what the framing reads on arrival, how much of the space a technician can physically reach, and whether the ground is still feeding it. You get a real window after the assessment rather than a number over the phone, because you are scheduling a crew against it. Call (208) 391-5248.
Who pays for the remediation?
The homeowner, and in some cases their insurance if the source was a sudden plumbing failure rather than long-term groundwater. We assess for free, quote in writing, and let them decide before anything starts. You are not in the middle of that.
Getting set up
Tell us what you run into and we’ll set you up. Takes one conversation, and there is no cost, no minimum, and no contract.