#1 way: Pest Control Technicians:
RULE #1 when pest control technician inspects and treats in your crawlspace…always check behind them to MAKE SURE THE GROUND IS BACK TO 100% COVERED!!
When we inspect a crawlspace we try to move the plastic back in place to cover as much ground as possible.
Pest Control companies know about pests but usually have minimal, if any, experience with mold. Most don’t know that the mold in a crawlspace leads to cockroaches and camel crickets. 90%+ of all homes with vented, unsealed crawlspaces, have cockroaches and camel crickets eating the mold.
WHAT EATS THE CAMEL CRICKETS AND COCKROACHES?
Mold in crawlspace comes primarily from uncovered dirt allowing mold in the ground that has moisture and bio-matter to NOW have oxygen once the pest control technition annually does there inspections and treatment they pull back the plastic at the foundation walls then trench a 4-7 inch deep
and spray a significant amount of there pest control solution in the trench against the wall. Most pest control technitians DONT PUT THE PLASTIC BACK, ESPECIALLY IN BACK where home owner’s hardly go.
This leads to exposed dirt, in the dark, with moist ground whick allows the mold now TO HAVE OXYGEN and the mold explosion happens. The more dirt that is exposed the more mold spores are sent into the air which then rest on your moists floor joists above head and start to eat at them weekening them.
