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Let me tell you a story that happens too often in Charleston. A friend from my jiu-jitsu gym called about mold in his crawl space. When he mentioned his crawl space was already encapsulated, I knew something wasn't right. What followed was a six-week nightmare with one of the big local companies - the kind of story that makes contractors like me frustrated and homeowners rightfully angry.

Imagine finding hundreds of square feet of storage space you didn't know you had - right under your feet. In Charleston and the Lowcountry, where many homes lack basements and attics are often too hot for storage, a properly encapsulated crawl space can be a game-changing solution to your storage needs.

Any company can look good when everything goes perfectly. But the true measure of a crawl space company isn't whether they ever face problems - it's how they handle those problems when they come up. Today, I want to share a real situation we're dealing with in several Lowcountry crawl spaces, because I believe in being completely honest with our community.

In crawl space work, the smallest details often have the biggest impact on your home's protection. After spending years under thousands of Lowcountry homes, I've learned this lesson time and time again. Sometimes it's something as simple as where we place a door handle that makes the difference between a system that lasts and one that fails.

Sometimes the toughest jobs show what a contractor is really made of. Recently, we tackled a crawl space that would make most professionals shake their heads - crooked pillars, questionable footers, and block work that looked like it was stacked in the dark. But here's the thing: we still delivered the clean, dry crawl space this Lowcountry home needed.

When it comes to protecting your home from moisture damage, "probably" isn't good enough. That's why at Crawl Logic Lowcountry, we design every crawl space system with backup plans for our backup plans. Some might call it overkill. We call it peace of mind.

I just finished inspecting a crawl space where another company - one of the biggest names in Charleston - had already done an encapsulation. The homeowners called us because their dehumidifier was running constantly and they were still having moisture issues. What we found shows why details matter so much in this business.

Want to know the real difference between a crawl space encapsulation that lasts 25 years and one that fails in 5? It often comes down to just a few inches - and details that most contractors either miss or ignore.