Why is it you can get UNDER a house???
Above grade houses are common in Texas and The South in general........................
Peer and beam foundation.
Most houses with crawl spaces have entry points to get in for maintenance of stuff like plumbing and HVAC. And vents for allowing air circulation. As houses get old, these are often compromised and critters are attracted to the warmth in winter.
House trailer on blocks and struts.......
Lots of places that can be done.
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Every house I've owned had a crawl space...under the house.
I few years...ago....I was hearing a spraying like noise..about 60 feet from the crawl space entry. I knew what it was....it was a small flipping water leak. I tried to ignore it...
Well....I know how to plumb. My Dad taught me....So I crawl over and under..all types of stuff.....Get to the leak.....figure out what I need.
Of course by this time...I'm a dirty mess...I go to local hardware store...The owner knows me..and starts laughing. Ha!!
I tell him what I need....and he say's "You ever used SharkBite fittings?" HUH!!???? I'd never heard of them....He showed me some...and you use this piping called PEX...and I thought well okay....I'll do it.
Got what I needed...crawled under house...and in under 20 minutes...I was done. I laid there..thinking this was too easy. Crawled back out...and turned water on. No leak!!!!
Next day it's leaking!!!! E^#$&$%*%^*!!!!@!@
Went back to hardware store...asked what was the fail rate on these fittings....he said less than 2%,,and they were plumbing whole homes with this stuff....Asked me..if I was sure I clicked them tight.
So went back under....the house...and re-clicked all the fittings...and damned if one of them re-"clicked"....and the leak was fixed...and to this day..it's fixed.
BUT...two days after this...I'm in the shower...and feel a bump near my groin.
A day later it hurts and it's angry. Third day it's red like a little volcano on my groin.
I'm in the Healthcare biz....And I don't like Doctors...hehe!!....so I'm thinking it's a spider bite...But I don't have a fever..and I just ice it...and take Tylenol for the pain.
I was thinking I'm going to rot off my groin parts....
But maybe 4 days into it...it popped. Had a pencil eraser sized hole..
So yeah....house's have crawl spaces..!!
Crawl space. Way better than building on a slab.
I saw a video of the snakes under the house- it’s either a mobile home or a modular home. Very common around here (Albany is about 30 miles from my town).