Hey, there.
Michael Church, CrawlSpaceNINJA.com and I want you to take a look at this video.
We get a lot of questions about do I need a termite gap above the vapor barrier?
Stay tuned.
Okay.
As you can see in this video, we've got a bit of a termite gap between the foam board
and the vapor barrier and the top of the sill plate.
The sill plate is that piece of wood that sits on the block and Tennessee, it is actually
code that you leave a 3" gap minimum.
You can go higher if you need to, but a minimum of 3" to show whether you've got termites
tunneling up from behind the vapor barrier up and trying to get access to the sill plate.
That's a great question.
Do you need a termite gap?
It would probably have to be brought to the code's department of your local municipality,
if you're living in some part of the country that doesn't have termites, don't need a termite
gap.
But here in Tennessee, we got a lot of subterranean termites.
They like to crawl up cinder block walls.
I've even seen termite tunnels hanging down from joists and it was connected to the floor,
probably three or four feet.
It's just amazing what those little critters can do.
Anyway, make sure that if you're in an area with termites that you leave that 3", so your
pest control company can take a look.
And like I said, keep those questions coming.
And oh, real quick.
See this behind me?
That's a crawl space door obviously.
I want to encourage you guys to make sure you start locking these doors.
That's one that I got a guy, a friend of mine that's in security, he said one of the biggest
things people are doing now are breaking into crawl spaces and then breaking into the house.
They get in here and then while you're gone they tunnel up into the house from the crawl
space door.
So, put an alarm on it or something.
If you need to, just do whatever you need to, to keep people out.
We even had a lady up in Sevierville.
She had a squatter living in her house for over a year in the crawl space.
So make sure you secure these doors.
So that's the crawl space tip of the day.
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