Evergreen Basement Systems
Venting Your Crawl Space in the Winter Season
Crawl Space vents are designed to pull outside air into your home, this creates a supply of air that moves freely throughout your crawl space at all times. While many would debate how useful it is to ventilate a crawl space at any time of the year, contactors can certainly agree that during the winter season, the vents should be firmly closed. However, the truth is, not many homeowners actually perform this as a yearly task.
The purpose of your crawl space is to house the utilities of your home. When you talk about utilities, this is anything that uses energy to create heat. Some examples of those utilities are your home's furnace, air duct system, hot water heater, and pipes.
During the cold winter season your crawl space works harder to provide energy for these utilities to function daily. If your crawl space is vented, those vents make your floors upstairs cold. This has a major impact on your home's utility bills! Benefit you and your home by closing your crawl space vents this winter season.
