Crawl space repair in Clover

Clover homeowners can call to reach an independent crawl space contractor who works in northern York County. The town had 6,671 residents in 2020.

Railroad and mill roots

Clover began in 1876 as a railway stop midway between Yorkville and Gastonia, North Carolina, and was incorporated in 1887. Several cotton mills operated there, many until after World War II. Mill-era houses in towns like this are often modest homes on brick piers, and their crawl spaces often have bare clay, little insulation and framing that has sagged between piers over the decades.

Hillier ground to the west

Clover sits at about 794 feet, and the country rises toward Kings Mountain to the west. Henry's Knob, west of town, reaches 1,120 feet. On sloped lots, runoff tends to soak the uphill side of the crawl space first.

What contractors often find

• No ground cover or torn scraps of old plastic
• Sagging floors between widely spaced brick piers
• Decayed sills on the uphill or downspout side
• Newer homes with humidity problems in summer

Permits

Clover is its own town. Ask the contractor which office handles any permit for your address.

Crawl space services in Clover

• Crawl space sealing and encapsulationClose up the vents, seal the clay floor and block walls under a heavy liner, and keep the humidity down.
• Vapor barrier replacementPull out torn, partial or thin plastic and put down a full, taped ground cover.
• Crawl space dehumidifiersInstall or replace a self-draining unit that keeps a sealed crawl space dry through a Carolina summer.
• Rotted sill and joist repairReplace decayed sill plates, sister weak joists and add support where the floor has started to give.
• Sump pumps and crawl space drainageGet water out from under the house with a sump, an interior drain line and better grading outside.

More York County towns

• Rock Hill
• Fort Mill
• Tega Cay
• York