Ok. My vents are fixed, they're just open. Sounds like I'm good up to the vapor barrier bit at least.
Are your bats fluffy side up or down?
I think we must have a different 'system', TheHusbandHalf said both sides are fluffy
Something that happened a month or so ago:
Under the old section of our 1915 house, there is a full basement. It's where our furnaces, and other things like that ,are.
We started getting water in a typically dry basement, and after a lot of checking, researching, remembering, we solved that problem.
When the house was built, it had an antiquated septic system that was basically two tiles the the ground, that got stuff from the toilet, and then sent it to the creek. Behind our lot is about 200' field, and then to the creek. It was about 7' underground. One of the first things we did was put in a new septic tank and leach field. The plastic tile were all about 4' underground and in about 2/3 back in our lot, it ties into the old 7' under tile.
We were dry since 1980.
What ended up being the problem -
At the same time my dad and TheHusbandHalf put in the septic system, they also put drainage tile in the yard. (We live in Ohio, in what is called The Black Swamp), so this insured there weren't water pools anywhere above the ground when it rained. Where the new 4' under tile (drains the yard and the leach field) meets the old glazed tile that goes back to the creek we were okay, but somewhere between the creek and where the new tied to the old, it was clogged.
So we figure, since it's really not being used for anything anymore, cut off the old 7'under glazed tile, before the tie to the new, so the water from the yard that was getting to our basement could not get backed to the house. It was making the water table really high when it rained and where our old foundation and floor of the basement met, leaked in it. A lot. There were a couple of times there was 4" of water.
The way we found where the new, 4' under, plastic tile tied into the 7' under glazed to the creek tile, was because my Dad (who has been dead about 20 years), left a 6" piece of notebook paper with dimensions of where the tie was, in reference to the lot lines. It was written in pencil.
We ended up hiring a guy, about 75 or so, who knew of my Dad, and we told him the vicinity of where we thought the connection was.
Did he use some fancy machine to tell him exactly where the tie was? NO He did it the way my Dad used to, he used a dousing rod (a straightened wire coat hanger). THH saw him!
He had rented a small backhoe, because he didn't have one that would fit through our garage door (we have a front and back garage door for just such reasons). He ended up being within 11" of the tie.
We think we may have solved the problem, and we've had a lot of rain.
I'm going to write all this down, with maps of where tile is around our house and in the yard, so the next person knows what they're dealing with. I've always been thankful that this house, that we bought from the original owner in 1980, had very little changed from it's original condition. I don't know what we would have done, even the crude drawing from my Dad was a stroke of luck.