Insulation

This is another critical part of a healthy attic. If the air isnt coming through the soffit vents on your home, the attic isnt getting the fresh air it needs to maintain an efficient system.
​We offer the services of cleaning your soffit vents and install soffit baffles if your home was built before they became a requirement of the building industry.

Often the property’s HVAC system duct-work is routed through attic spaces, which, even though they are insulated to protect the house below, will still get very hot when in the direct sun or the heat of high summer. This means that your cool A/C air passing through the duct-work is likely to be less cool after passing through 30 feet of heated attic space! A/C duct-work may only have an insulation R-value of 6 or 8, less in older properties. Replacing your air turbine with a Solar fan will help remove the hot air in your attic.

​If you get a competitor’s salesman in your home telling you their crews don’t airseal because “a house needs to breathe,” please send them packing back to 1985. In terms of overall comfort and energy savings, this step is as important as adding insulation. We use caulk and foam to stop the leaks between your attic and home where we detect them, because we don’t want that nasty superheated /super-freezing attic air mixing with your home’s clean, treated air. The more we can keep the extreme temperatures in your attic separate from your living space below, the better off you’ll be, and the more you’ll save on your energy bill. If you are getting cheap bids that skip this step, you could be making a very costly mistake-when there are only a couple inches of existing insulation, the only good thing about that is that we can get in there and really seal everything up before all the new insulation is added, and then you get a great one-two punch. Once all the insulation has been blown in, there will likely never again be an opportunity to really thoroughly seal it up, so if this step is skipped, it is a real missed opportunity.