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By eight in the morning, the grass can still be wet while the Wilmington air already feels heavy. We kneel beside the house, move a branch away from a foundation vent, and shine a flashlight through the screen. There is daylight on the other side, and from the yard, the vent looks like it is doing exactly what it is supposed to do.<\/span><\/p>\n Then we open the crawl space access and go underneath. After working past the first block pier and ducking beneath a low duct, that little rectangle of daylight can suddenly seem a long way behind us. That is where Crawl Space Ventilation becomes more than checking whether a vent is open. If you are concerned about dampness, musty odors, or condensation beneath your Wilmington home, contact Crawl Space Ninja online<\/a> to schedule an inspection.<\/span><\/p>\n Established Wilmington properties can have plenty happening around the foundation. Shrubs mature, pine straw gets replaced, mulch beds change, and landscaping can make one side of a house look completely different from another. Sometimes we have to get down behind a bush just to see a foundation vent clearly.<\/span><\/p>\n We check the screen, opening, and immediate surroundings, but we do not make a ventilation call from there. The vent tells us where outdoor air can enter. It cannot show us what happens after that air moves beneath the house.<\/span><\/p>\n Before heading underneath, we may check:<\/span><\/p>\n Once we know what the exterior looks like, we head underneath to see the same area from the other side.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" By eight in the morning, the grass can still be wet while the Wilmington air already feels heavy. We kneel beside the house, move a branch away from a foundation vent, and shine a flashlight through the screen. There is daylight on the other side, and from the yard, the vent looks like it is […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":20,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"page-templates\/template-subpage-sidebar.php","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-2980","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/crawlspaceninja.com\/wilmington-nc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2980","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/crawlspaceninja.com\/wilmington-nc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/crawlspaceninja.com\/wilmington-nc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crawlspaceninja.com\/wilmington-nc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/20"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crawlspaceninja.com\/wilmington-nc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2980"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/crawlspaceninja.com\/wilmington-nc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2980\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3053,"href":"https:\/\/crawlspaceninja.com\/wilmington-nc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2980\/revisions\/3053"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/crawlspaceninja.com\/wilmington-nc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2980"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}The Vent Behind the Azalea Is Only the Starting Point<\/span><\/h2>\n
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