A home inspector sees an assortment of debris when he or she inspects crawl spaces underneath homes. It seems that the tasteless religious doctrine is out of sight, out of mind. Day after day, I see crawl spaces that are packed with clutter.
While many homeowners unquestionably cause the question by poor
management and adding their own clutter, many homeowners do not even know the crawl space is a mess because contractors and other workers have left the debris behind, after completing a project.
Such workers do not call concentration to having left a mess behind and I am convinced that habitancy do not go in their crawl spaces to look for themselves.
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In crawl spaces, commonly, I find beverage cans, candy wrappers, scraps of wood, paper, cardboard and fast food boxes. The cellulose, wood and paper, items are the biggest worry. They are conducive debris and can lead to attracting wood destroying organisms. Other things I have seen include wood planters that always seem to belong to the homeowner or a former homeowner. One unpleasant find is a crawl space that is a repository for old boards with exposed nails or sharp metal and broken concrete. These items can injure anyone entering or working in the crawl space.
In reality, crawl space maintenance and cleanup is not complicated but it does need hard work. The explication involves picking up all the garbage and removing any unessential wood or paper scraps, including old form wood. If some scrap is not part of the home, then take off it from the crawl space. A crawl space full of wood debris, such as stored
shingles, can be a fire hazard as well.
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