Crawl space vapor barrier in Davenport IA - a ground cover that fits your crawl space

Most people call us because the floors over the crawl space feel cold, the house smells damp, or they finally looked down the hatch and found bare dirt or old plastic torn to pieces. The price mostly moves with the size of the floor, how thick a liner you pick, whether a dehumidifier goes in, and whether your crawl space is vented or sealed, because that changes how the plastic gets finished. The schedule turns on how much has to come out of there first and, if your walls are insulated, on settling how the liner meets them. You get your own number when I come out and look.

I start by figuring out whether your crawl space is vented or sealed and how water already moves through it, because the liner has to work with both and shouldn't change where water drains now. If your walls are insulated, we settle how the liner meets them before we start, not halfway through the job. You can clear out whatever's stored down there before we arrive so the plastic can cover the whole floor, then our crew lays the liner across the ground, finishes it the way your kind of crawl space needs, and cleans up so the only thing you notice is the new floor. If there's standing water or a leak feeding the space, I'll tell you to fix that first, because plastic over a wet problem just hides it.

Some houses need a moisture layer in the walls or ceilings too, and that's our vapor barrier installation work. Air that rises out of a crawl space usually leaks out the top of the house, so attic air sealing, closing the gaps up there before anything else goes in, is often worth a look on the same visit.

The City of Davenport's Building Counter issues permits, and the city's permit list names excavation, fill, plumbing and electrical work but doesn't mention crawl space vapor barriers, so that list doesn't settle it for this job. The counter is the place to ask. If your job does need a permit, we take care of it with the city and tell you about it up front.

We're based in Davenport and work on both sides of the river, and plenty of the crawl spaces we open up sit under older houses with low clearance, a tight hatch and whatever plastic someone put down years ago, bunched against the walls. We see the same thing on jobs in Bettendorf and Rock Island, and in a lot of cities that don't have their own page here.