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Most people think of their crawl space as something to ignore. Just keep it dry, keep the critters out, and forget about it. But I'm sitting in mine right now, organizing long-term food storage, and I've got to tell you - that's a lot of wasted thinking about a lot of wasted space.

I'm about to tell you a story that still makes me feel terrible years later. My wife and kids went three days without running water in the middle of a freeze. Three days of cracking ice on the pool just to get water to flush the toilets. No showers. No doing dishes. Just survival mode.

Yesterday, a homeowner reached out to me through Facebook. He's selling his house and needed crawl space work done to pass inspection. Smart guy - he got three quotes before making a decision. One was mine. The other two came from big corporate companies.

I had a property owner tell me last week he was bracing himself for a $30,000 bill. He'd been calling around, getting quotes, and everything he was hearing made him think this crawl space problem was going to cost him serious money.

Yesterday, I got news that no one ever wants to hear. John Love, my electrician for the past six years, passed away in a car accident following heart surgery. If you've had work done with Crawl Logic over the years, there's a good chance you met John. And if you met him, you know exactly why this hurts so much.

December brings cold weather to Nashville, and cold weather brings mice into crawl spaces. It's something I see on almost every inspection this time of year. But here's what most homeowners don't know: getting your crawl space encapsulated without rodent-proofing is like building a nice warm apartment complex for mice.

Today was different. For the first time in months, I took a weekday off. Spent the day with my wife, worked on our house, got some good food cooking in the oven. Nothing fancy, just time to breathe and think about where we're headed.

I was out in Spring Hill yesterday working on a crawl space we encapsulated four years ago. The homeowner called because his dehumidifier was throwing an error code. When I got there and pulled the filter, I understood why. Three years of dust, debris, and neglect had turned it into a solid block.