Crawl space encapsulation in Village Harbour
Standing water, a musty smell, floors that never feel warm. Usually a sealed vapor barrier, drainage, and humidity control.
Barnegat Township
Bayfront and lagoon
Village Harbour is a lagoon neighbourhood on the Barnegat Township bayfront.
Housing stock. Waterfront and near-water homes on filled ground with canal frontage.
Ground and water. Direct tidal connection through the lagoon system, so groundwater rises and falls with the bay.
Working here. Canal frontage at the rear means most work is staged from the street.
Anything requiring a permit in Village Harbour goes through Barnegat Township — and the contractor has to be state-registered first.
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The work that actually applies to this kind of ground.
Standing water, a musty smell, floors that never feel warm. Usually a sealed vapor barrier, drainage, and humidity control.
Soft or bouncy floors, sagging in the middle of a room. Joists, beams, girders, and posts that need sistering or replacing.
Rated vents for enclosures below base flood elevation. Often needed to satisfy a flood insurance requirement.
Rot, cracking, or exposed rebar under an elevated home. Sistering, wrapping, jacketing, or full replacement.
Nearby
Similar ground, similar problems.
Dredge-and-fill lagoon communities at low elevation with tidal influence on groundwater.
Less common, but available in Village Harbour.