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zakthor zakthor is offline
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Im 99% certain that anyone you can find to do this will not be able to do it right. Bids will be high because no-one wants to do it. Is the sort of job id do myself because its important and folks with half a brain would structure their lives to not do this sort of thing.

If its her house she needs to buy some ppe and get in there asap and start converging the situation to a place she wants to be. This is the joy of home ownership.

Maybe rent a cooling supplied air suit? Its going to be awful in there and you shouldnt breathe that air.

Water is off, right?

Biggest issue is mold so remove everything that is moist.

Redo the broken pipe and secure the icemaker line so this doesnt happen again.

Get it all dry with fans and cross flow, reinstall insulation, then make sure that plastic vapor barrier is back down smoothly, goes up sides of foundation and tape it to foundation.

EDIT: From photo with all the drips on the pvc... that is just the water that has found its way through the insulation and its vapor barrier. That insulation is soaked and all the wet stuff needs to come out. The moisture is being held in by the insulation vapor barrier so that fan isn't going to even start to touch the problem. Tear out all the wet stuff, get everything bone dry, then install new insulation, including getting it re-taped. The drying is going to take more than a week. If it was me working alone this is days and days of suffering in a narrow crawl space. Horrible job.

If you do find some fool to do the work you still need to go down there and check their work…

Last edited by zakthor; 06-09-2022 at 08:06 AM.. Reason: Celebrate moisture
Old 06-09-2022, 06:24 AM
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