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Recommend an insulation company?
10/01/2013 4:12 PM by John M
Any recommendations for home insulation companies? I need it blown into the walls and to have the crawlspace done too. Determined to not live as an icicle this winter!
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We used Creative Conservation for Icynene insulation 2 years ago and were very pleased with them and the price. Good luck!
Creative Conservation for the win!
I put closed cell foam in my crawl space, made a big difference. Call Julie Doss 804 874 6796 from Commonwealth Foam Insulations, they did a good job for a reasonable price.
Thank you, commenters!
Creative Conservation came out for an estimate today and Scott was awesome — really friendly, totally amenable to working within my (very small) budget, and even gave me some ideas about energy-saving funding. Some other companies have come out to give estimates too and were really negative about how “typical Church Hill houses” are low to the ground and small. Nice to meet someone who knows the area and will make things work.
Update: Creative Conservation won’t return my calls/email now! I received an estimate, asked when they could start… ::crickets:: Really wanted to have this completed in the next 2 weeks.
My crawl space isn’t accessible & I don’t have $5k to have it dug out, plus I don’t have attic access. A lot of places won’t even come out to give me an estimate because of these things.
Anyone else have recommendations?
Atlantic Spray is one to consider.
Also Reyes Insulation and Drywall.
Building Science Inc. (BSI) does insulation and energy audits too, phone is 804-559-8830. I had them do an energy audit last spring. All these came from RBVa, they’ve worked with all of them at one point or another. Good luck.
@#5. Is your crawlspace not accessible because there is no access hatch or because it’s very low and uncrawlable? An access hatch is easy for a carpenter (but maybe not so much for an insulation technician.) If uncrawlable, then realistically the only way to get a human in there with equipment and insulation is to dig or open the floors. Both choices would be expensive and cutting the floors open might not be realistic if you’re living there, have beautiful old floors, etc. An attic hatch is also not terribly difficult to do, but perhaps not something an insulation company would want to attempt.
So, if there is crawlable space below and above your living area, then you need hatches, which in turn would make insulators more likely to take the job.
Potentially insulation could be blown into the attic, even if a human body can’t get to all the nooks and crannies, provided they can get into the attic at all.
As far as the walls go, they’ll need to drill holes in your siding at each stud bay to blow in the cellulose. And then patch this hole properly so it doesn’t leak water in the future. Obviously, if the walls are open, it becomes much easier.
Please let us know if anyone takes the job, and how they manage the challenges.
We used Commonwealth insulation just like #3 and they did a great job for us too. Our crawlspace is crawlable but it gets pretty tight in some areas. One of our attics is pretty tight as well but they managed to take care of it all. Good luck!