A homeowner called about a musty smell and a floor that felt cold in one corner. Nick pulled the crawlspace hatch and found what we find more often than anyone would like on the Eastside: standing water across the vapor barrier, saturated batt insulation hanging off the joists, and flex duct sitting directly in it.
We documented it before we touched anything — photos, moisture readings, the whole run of duct. Then we extracted the water, pulled every compromised batt and every length of wet flex, dried the cavity down to a verified moisture content, and treated the framing before a single new material went back in.
New vapor barrier, new insulation, duct re-hung off the ground and sealed. The smell was gone, the floor came back to temperature, and the owner has a photo record if an insurer or a future buyer ever asks what happened down there.