Eleven Hundred Square Feet of Crawl Space Floor Cleaned in Larchmont

The written instruction on this Larchmont job was: HEPA vacuum concrete floor, pick up all debris. The invoice contains a line for cleaning 1,100 square feet of concrete floor, a line for one 24 hour negative air period, protective equipment, and one pickup truck load of debris hauled away including dump fees. That is the entire job. There is a reason to publish a scope this narrow. Crawl space work is one of the easiest places in restoration to sell more than a homeowner needs, because almost nobody goes down there to check what was done.

Encapsulation, vapour barriers, new insulation and dehumidification all get bundled into crawl space quotes routinely, and each of them is a legitimate product in the right circumstances. None of them was sold here, because the ask was a floor that needed clearing and cleaning, and that is what was delivered. 1,100 square feet is a large floor area to work at crawl space height. There is no standing up, the vacuum has to be dragged through, and every square foot is reached on hands and knees.

The negative air period matters even on a pure cleaning scope, because a crawl space shares air with the rooms above through the subfloor, and disturbing that much settled material without negative pressure moves it upward into the house rather than out of it. Debris left the property as a documented haul rather than being bagged and stacked in a corner, which is worth checking on any crawl space invoice. This page describes cleaning. No insulation was removed, no vapour barrier or encapsulation was installed, no antimicrobial was applied, and no mould remediation, testing or clearance was performed. In New York those distinctions are not marketing language, so they are stated rather than implied.