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Article: HELTER SHELTER: CRAWL SPACE HELL; Hard in, hard out, and miserable in between

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August 20, 2002
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Let me just come right out and say it: I hate crawl spaces worse than I hate pompadoured TV preachers, electric banjos and American League designated hitters all put together. Understand, by crawl spaces, I mean the miserable little caves under houses. I'm not talking about attics, which, for some odd reason, some people call crawl spaces. If I were making the building rules, no house would have a crawl space.

Now I know, some of you are thinking, Why does Jowers hate crawl spaces so? They don't really bother me. Well, I've got two big reasons: First, I've traversed several thousand of them, and each one sucked a little bit of life out of me. Second, since I'm in the home inspection ...

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