How to Sell Your Customers on a Crawl Space Investment
As a crawl space contractor, part of your job is to prove the investment value of crawl space updates to potential customers. Otherwise, they may decide another part of their home is in more need of repair.
You already know that cleaning, sealing, or encapsulating crawl spaces will add value to your customers’ homes. Now here’s how to sell your customers on a crawl space investment.
Decrease mold, mildew, and fungus growth
Your customers will love knowing that they no longer have a damp, dark area under the house. Controlling the temperature and humidity in their crawl space will ensure that fungus and mold don’t have a thriving environment.
Decrease insects and rodents
Speaking of damp crawl spaces, your customers won’t have to worry as much about insect and pest removal with a clean and dry space under the house. Since rodents, insects, and other pests don’t find dry, clean spaces as appealing as dark, damp ones, customers won’t have to worry about infestations, or worse, potential termite damage.
Decrease odors and improve air quality
Musty odors and the widely recognized “cat pee smell” that notoriously accompanies crawl spaces will cease once your customers make an investment in a cleaner, drier space. Since these smells often linger up to the home above, they’ll love that insulating or encapsulating will be a win-win.
Improve structural integrity
Remind customers that prolonged damp environments can also cause drastic detrimental issues for their homes. When a damp crawl space is allowed to stay so, moisture can damage a house’s foundation and wood structure beyond repair.
Improve energy efficiency
By controlling the temperature and humidity in their crawl spaces, customers will also appreciate that they start seeing a lower energy bill. Since heaters and air conditioners have to work harder against moist crawl space air, sealing the space under the house will create a more energy efficient home.
Improve home property value
Last, but certainly not least, homeowners interested in selling their homes now - or anytime in the future - will appreciate that investing in their crawl space will increase their property value. Between energy savings, resolving structural concerns, air quality improvement, and moisture issues, your customers’ home will certainly sell for even more.
Try these six reasons with potential crawl space customers to help them understand why an investment in their crawl space is a worthwhile one.
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