Do the wooden floors of your Pensacola home sag and creak when you walk across them? If you don’t have an enclosed basement beneath your home, and it’s not elevated on stilts (piles) or supported by a concrete slab, you most likely have a crawl space beneath your flooring that has the potential to cause issues for your entire house. The crawl space and floor support experts in Pensacola at MDH are here to help.

Your crawl space is more than likely open to the outside elements and has the propensity to accumulate pools of standing water, particularly in a wet, humid area like Pensacola. When left unattended, the excessive moisture and humidity will saturate the wooden joists that support and stabilize the floors of your home. Water-soaked wood is susceptible to fungal growth, pest invasions, and rot. Once compromised, the wood joists become spongy and unable to support or stabilize the floor above. Excessive water in the crawl space can also saturate the ground during wet seasons, causing unnecessary crawl space moisture under your Pensacola home. As the soil loses water and then eventually reabsorbs water, the ground shifts unevenly, and that unevenness is transferred to the original support columns that hold up the floor joists.