Remediation and drying before your barrier
- Free crawlspace assessment, remote or on-site
- Subfloor and joist moisture readings before and after
- Subfloor and joist readings on a live job page, updated daily
- Remediation and drying, then we hand it back for your barrier
- A compensated referral relationship, if you want one
- We do not install encapsulation
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. Encapsulating over active moisture and contaminated wood is not work you want your name on. But the customer has already paid you, and telling them they need somebody else first with no name to hand them is how the job stalls in the driveway.
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.
Your customer keeps the encapsulation job, with you
We remediate and dry, then hand the space back so your barrier goes down over clean, dry wood. We do not install vapor barriers, sump systems, or encapsulation, and we will not quote them. When one of our jobs needs that work, it goes to the contractors who send us remediation.
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. We give you the readings by location and the date the space is ready, so your 12 to 20 mil goes over a verified condition rather than a hope.
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.
Your customer sees one sequence, not two contractors arguing
One written order of operations: remediate, dry, verify, then encapsulate. The homeowner understands why there are two companies and why it happens in that order, and nobody is standing in a driveway blaming the other one for the schedule.
Your install date comes off the readings
A live link to the job with daily moisture content on the subfloor and the joists, by location. You book the crew off actual numbers instead of calling to ask whether it is dry yet.
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 for your barrier
- Readings
- daily moisture content on the subfloor and the joists, by location
- Ready date
- the specific day the space is ready for your install
- 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. 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 we tell you the day it is ready for your barrier.
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. Encapsulation, drainage, and structural work on our own jobs goes out to the contractors who work with us either way. 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
- A clear handoff: we tell you the specific day the space is ready for your barrier
Questions we get
Do you install encapsulation or vapor barriers?
No, and that is exactly why the handoff works. We do mitigation and mold remediation. Encapsulation, sump systems, drainage, and structural repair are yours, and that work on our own jobs goes out to the contractors who send us remediation.
Are you going to take my customer?
No. We hand the space back with a date and get out of the way. A remediation company that poaches encapsulation work stops getting crawlspace referrals within a month, and we would like to keep getting them.
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.