Good evening fellow contractors, I love Fine Homebuilding but am new to the forums. I would love to get some feedback on a future project I have in CT. The house is a old beach house turned to year round. There is only a small basement in the center, so the rest is sitting on about 1 ft concrete columns. Around the perimeter they have T-1/11 covering this 1 ft area. Yes you got it, this has rotted out, now leaving a critter crawl space. Without tearing many of the cedar shakes off, my ideas are a single layer of block or pour concrete, then covering this for looks. There is also the Azak idea. I don’t want it to look like a mistake or out of place. Drop me your idea. Thanks Ed
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ed...the house sounds properly supported so you only need skirting to keep the wind and critters out
i'd frame it with pt.... then sheath the frame with pt ply....
then carry the cedar shingles down to 8" above finish grade
There is a skirting sold for mobile homes that consists of pieces of pre-cast concrete that assemble together on a metal frame. Quite attractive (especially compared to T1-11).
Unfortunately, I can't find a link to it.
Did you find a link? I think this would look real good.
This isn't the brand, and the pictures aren't really that good, but it's the general idea:http://www.stonecote.com/
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We just did one where we used red cedar lattice painted black over black landscape fabric. It keeps the wind out but lets water vapour breathe
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Great idea. With your job, what was the reason for letting the crawl space breath?
Old house being redone. It is on piers and had a lot of ground water runing thru under it. We diverted a lot, added gutters and drainage, but there was still dampness from under. that for years has been coming up thru.House gets closed up nine months of the year, and all the old cushions, drapes, carpet, etc had mildews odor so that stuff is going out. I also sprayed Tigerfoam to bottom of subfloors as a vb.
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Ed,
Yeah pretty straightforward like the other guys have said....just one thing I would double check before doing anything is if the house since it is near the beach, is built that way due to FEMA elevation requirements.
I mention that as in our areas, elevated homes can only use certain items to enclose the crawl spaceelevated area. More or less like breakaway walls. May not be an issue where you live but would hate to see you do it all to have some local authority come by and tell you its a 44CFR violation (or whatever the FEMA code is) and it has to be removed.
Thanks for the info. I will check into this.