Our innovative services — including TAP® pest-control insulation and advanced moisture-control systems — protect your home from pests, mold, and excess humidity. By stopping harmful airflow from your crawl space into living areas, we can help reduce allergies, asthma triggers, and heating/cooling bills. Trust HonorGuard Pest Management to create a healthier, more efficient home.
Thermal Acoustical Pest Control (TAP) Insulation:
EPA-registered TAP pest control insulation is an innovative solution for removing unwanted pests from the home while helping save money on energy costs all year long.
As an EPA-registered pesticide, TAP pest control insulation controls common pests that invade the home through the attic such as ants, boxelder bugs, centipedes, cockroaches, millipedes, silverfish, and stink bugs.
TAP is green and aligns with current IPM techniques. When added to existing insulation or installed on its own, TAP insulation controls bugs and helps to keep the air in the living areas of your home comfortable. It reduces the energy needed to heat or cool your home and, in turn, reduces your heating and cooling costs.
Uniquely offering two solutions in one product: an energy-efficient blown-in insulation coupled with the added value of pest control. TAP pest control insulation helps keep the bugs out and comfort in.
Encapsulation/Moisture Control:
There is always air movement occurring between your crawl space and house. Even if your floor is insulated, air is still traveling throughout your house. This process is called the stack effect or convection. Warm air in the upper level of your home rises and is expelled through windows, vents, cracks, and gaps. As it rises, air from lower levels, including the crawl space, of your home rushes in to fill the vacuum.
Air from your crawlspace enters your home along with everything in it. Odors, fungus spores, and dust mite feces enter your home. This can cause a variety of respiratory problems, including allergies and asthma. Air, often filled with more moisture, gets sucked into the crawl space from the outdoors. In this sense, a poorly designed crawl space acts like an air quality risk.
Excess moisture in a vented, dirt-floored crawl space can damage insulation while also causing fungus problems.
Heavy-duty moisture barriers used in the encapsulation process transform the crawl space into a dry, clean, energy-efficient part of the house.
Our Installation Process
- Install airtight doors & vent covers: Sealing your crawl space doors and vents stops the cycle of cold, humidity, and moisture entering from the outside air. However, water can still enter your crawlspace in many ways.
- Remove any standing water sources: The next step is to eliminate any sources of flooding in your crawl space by installing a crawl space drain and sump pump system. This eliminates flooding water from your crawl space, but moisture can still enter directly through the concrete and floor in the form of water vapor.
- Encapsulate & Insulate: We install a durable vapor barrier liner on the crawl space floor and walls to block moisture. During this stage, we also add insulation to walls or flooring and lay drainage matting under the liner to channel water toward the sump pump.
- Install a dehumidifier: Installing an energy-efficient, self-draining crawl space dehumidifier will keep your space dry. Our crawl space dehumidifier system includes a filter that removes particles from the air as small as 2 microns. This ensures that your crawl space is protected from fungus, dust mites, and mildew damage, permanently!