Blown-In Attic Insulation
Loose-fill cellulose or fiberglass blown to full depth across the attic floor, filling the gaps and voids that batts always leave behind.
Cut your heating and cooling bills, stop the upstairs from being ten degrees hotter than the rest of the house, and protect your roof from ice dams.
Most homes in Greater Cincinnati were built with far less attic insulation than today's standards call for — and in a house that's forty or sixty years old, whatever was installed has usually settled, compressed, or been disturbed by decades of storage and wiring work.
The result is the same in almost every home we inspect: heat pours out through the attic in winter and pours in through it in summer. Your furnace and air conditioner run longer to compensate, your upstairs never quite matches your downstairs, and in a cold snap that escaping heat melts snow on the roof deck that refreezes at the eaves as an ice dam.
Insulation is unglamorous work. It is also, dollar for dollar, the highest-return improvement most homeowners can make — and it is one of the few upgrades that pays you back every single month.
Loose-fill cellulose or fiberglass blown to full depth across the attic floor, filling the gaps and voids that batts always leave behind.
Before any insulation goes down, we seal the top plates, penetrations, and bypasses where conditioned air actually escapes. Insulating over unsealed gaps wastes half the benefit.
Balanced intake and exhaust so the attic stays cold in winter and vented in summer. Poor ventilation shortens shingle life and causes the moisture problems people blame on the roof.
For walls, rim joists, knee walls, and finished spaces where blown-in isn't the right answer.
The forgotten path for cold floors and high winter bills in Cincinnati's older housing stock.
Old, contaminated, rodent-damaged, or water-damaged material removed and disposed of before the new system goes in.
The quickest check: if you can see the tops of the ceiling joists when you look across your attic floor, you almost certainly don't have enough. Other signs are rooms that never match the thermostat, high heating and cooling bills, and icicles or ice dams along the eaves in winter. We'll inspect and measure the existing depth for free.
Ohio and Northern Kentucky sit in a climate zone where attics are generally recommended in the R-49 to R-60 range. A great many homes we open up measure somewhere between R-11 and R-19, which is a fraction of current standards.
It addresses the cause in most cases. Ice dams form when heat escaping into the attic melts snow on the roof deck, and that meltwater refreezes at the cold eaves. Air sealing and insulating stop the heat loss; proper ventilation keeps the deck cold. Roof work alone rarely solves it.
Not always. If the existing material is dry, clean, and undisturbed, we can often add over the top of it. It has to come out if it's wet, moldy, rodent-contaminated, or compressed to the point of being useless — and we'll show you photos of the condition rather than just telling you.
Most attics are a single day. Larger homes or jobs that include removal of the old material can run into a second day.
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