Moisture-Resistant
Basement Finishing System
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for the Basement
Basement Finishing for a Mold-Resistant Kansas City Home
How healthy your basement environment is has a powerful impact on your entire home. The reason for this is simple: the air in your basement will eventually find its way throughout your entire home.
When air is heated in a home, it rises naturally upwards, passing from the lower levels of the home up to the attic and upper levels, where it goes outside of the house. As this happens, air is pulled upwards from the lower levels -- including the basement.
If you have anything unhealthy in your basement air -- such as mold spores, dust mite waste, odors, or indoor pollutants, you can be sure that it's in air in the rest of your home too.
Total Basement Finishing of Johnson County would like to help you install basement finishing products that will help your home become the healthy, warm, beautiful, and long-lasting environment you deserve.
We offer free, no-obligation estimates in Kansas City, Topeka, Independence, Lees Summit and all areas nearby. Call or e-mail us today to get started on transforming your basement into a wonderful new living space!
Moldy Basements and Your Health
Mold is too significant a health problem to ignore.
The American Lung Association has reported that 88 million people in the United States alone suffer from a respiratory ailment of some sort, with 50% of its households holding at least one person with a respiratory illness.
The American College of Allergy, Asthma and Immunology, has estimated that 50% of all respiratory illnesses are caused or aggravated by polluted indoor air.
When people think about home mold, they usually think of the basement.
Because moisture is continuously moving through your porous basement walls, it's constantly flowing into your basement.
This is why basements are notorious for being damp, humid spaces. If basement wall products containing organic materials against these concrete surfaces, moisture is trapped behind them and mold is given an environment to grow in.
Total Basement Finishing of Johnson County including Kansas City, Topeka, Independence, Lees Summit, offers our customers only the best in mold-resistant basement finishing products.
Our basement walls, ceiling tiles, and basement flooring are all warrantied against damage from mold and moisture, with the basement walls including a 50-year warranty -- one that holds up even in a basement flood!
A Dry Basement Floor
When carpet, plywood, wood, plywood, or "chipboard and plastic" tiles are used on a basement floor, the results are always the same: mold, rot, and a ruined finished floor. This is because moisture, in the form of water vapor, moving upwards through a concrete floor.
The problem is multiplied by the constant threat of a groundwater leak, as well as from any of the plumbing inside the home, including the water heater, washing machine sink, toilet, tub, or other plumbing source. Once organic materials become wet, they can begin to grow mold and rot within just 48 hours.
Total Basement Finishing of Johnson County has the finished basement flooring products you need for a long-lasting, attractive basement remodeling: Total Basement Finishing's ThermalDry Basement Floor Tiles and MillCreek Wood Finish Basement Flooring.
Whether your preference is tiled, carpeted, or wood finish flooring, floor finishings can survive even the humid and flooded conditions of a wet basement with no moisture damage.
And because they can interlock to form a vapor retardant on your basement floor, you can enjoy a finished basement that's drier and more comfortable than ever!
Plus if you should get a stain on the flooring, the tiles can be easily popped out, cleaned and/or replaced.
If your heart has been set on a special or custom-made carpeting design that is not offered by us, we can still help you.
As certified installers of the award-winning ThermalDry floor matting, we can use these interlocking sub floor tiles to create a complete vapor barrier on your floor.
It takes up very little of your room's vertical space while protecting your carpet from rotting or supporting mold growth due to moisture passing through the concrete below.
A Mold-Resistant Finished KC Basement
Mold and dust mites need 3 things to survive: organic material, temperatures of over 40 degrees Fahrenheit, and moisture.
In a finished basement that's filled with pictures, boxes, furniture, dust, and other materials, mold will always have food. Additionally, we know that the home may never drop below 40 degrees.
Fortunately, mold has 1 weakness: while humans and pets can enjoy relative humidity levels as low as 30%, mold needs its humidity level above 60% to thrive. The key to keeping mold out of a remodeled basement? Install a reliable basement dehumidifier.
To keep your finished basement - and the rest of your home - healthy, we recommend installing the SaniDry XP basement dehumidification system in your finished basement.
This powerful Energy Star rated basement dehumidifier is more than 3 times more efficient than the standard home dehumidifiers found at hardware stores.
It's powerful enough to be ducted from a closet or utility area throughout the finished area of the basement, and its self-draining design keeps it ready at all times to promote a healthy, mold-resistant basement.
One of the best features about the SaniDry is its ability to clean the air as well as dehumidify it. The SaniDry XP's air filters remove particles from the air - as small as 2 microns in size! That's small enough to remove dust mites, dust mite waste, pollen, pet dander, mold spores, dust, and other airborne allergens and pollutants in your air.
Your Healthy Basement Remodelers
Start a lifetime of enjoying your finished basement, resting assured that you've invested in a home improvement that increases the value of your home while enhancing your quality of life for decades to come.
A finished basement home movie theater.We would be happy to help you plan your basement finishing project. We are locally owned and operated contractors who have been certified and trained with the Total Basement Finishing international network of basement finishing contractors, centrally located in Seymour, Connecticut.
We're proud to say we have earned a long-standing reputation in the Kansas City area, including being in good standing with the Better Business Bureau and from our many happy customer testimonials and referrals.
We provide free, no-obligation basement finishing written quotes to homeowners in our local area, including Kansas City, Overland Park, Olathe, Independence, Lees Summitt, Lenexa and surrounding areas.
If you'd like to learn more about transforming your basement into a healthier, energy-efficient, and more valuable space, call or e-mail us today!
