Attic Insulation: 3 Common Mistakes to Avoid

is it time to clean and insulate your attic are you in the middle of getting proposals from contractors to clean and insulate your attic today we're going to talk about three costly mistakes that homeowners do when choosing a contractor actually the contractors are making the mistake but you will not my name is sean from atticare and for over 12 years i'm helping homeowners become more comfortable in their homes and make sure that their home is healthier and energy efficient we truly believe you can learn a lot about the health of the home just by looking into the attic and process so let's start with one that i see almost in every house and actually in this home as well as you can see behind me there is a lot of blown insulation but underneath the blonde there is a different type of insulation that is all filled with either rodent feces or mold and mildew and a lot of homeowners they are not aware that this is exactly like putting band-aid on a wound from a gun what happened is that when you put new insulation on top of all the insulation that is contaminated with rat feces what you're essentially creating is poor air quality plus sword ants getting attracted more and more to this area because they mark territory with fishes and urine and what we do and good contractors do they're going to remove all their own insulation they're going to sanitize and clean the right way now let's talk about how much money you can save by doing that if you put blood insulation on top next time you're gonna have to do the service and you will it's gonna be way more costly because the garbage fee it's gonna take more time think about removing all this fluffy stuff behind me that's not going to take a day it's going to be expensive besides that the health benefit is enormous the second mistake is that they missed what i called the air sealing portion of the service which is essentially sealing air pockets or air gaps between your living space and the attic air stealing save a lot of money when you do it correctly if you don't do it it's basically translate to maybe another 30 40 monthly but sometimes it's two three hundred dollar monthly on your energy bill so just by removing the old insulation and air steel and putting your insulation you can save a lot of money so if you can imagine in the attic you have electrical wires and you have air ducts and you have vents and you have pipes basically a lot of energy is getting lost through this area so you cannot do this service simply if you don't remove all the old insulation because you will not see [Music] the third thing is that in order to make sure that your home is rotten proof seal the areas with mesh and metal so rodents cannot get in you can do this service only when all the insulation is removed completely so if you want to make sure that your home is energy efficient and the air quality of your home is better you got to do things the right way if you have questions you want somebody from our company to come and evaluate your attic or crawl space give us a call we do free estimation we're going to go all the way into the attic or cross space we're gonna dig inside and underneath the insulation make sure you don't have any rotten faces and no mold and we will give you a quote to do things the right way so you only need to do this service once [Music] you

Channel: Atticare Construction

Views: 198,889

Keywords: Attic insulation, energy efficiency, insulation contractor, insulation replacement, insulation removal, DIY Insulation, crawlspace insulation

Id: PS4v4MSGPoU

Length: 3min 20sec (200 seconds)

Published: Tue Jul 12 2022