Attic Insulation Dallas

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Attic insulation is one of the best-kept secrets for making your home more energy efficient in the Greater Dallas area during both winter and summer. The less work your heating and air conditioning system has to do the less it will cost you to control the temperature in your home. Don't just take our word for it, see why HGTV says, "High-quality insulation is one of the best investments you can make for your home."

Attic Insulation Seasonal Benefits

In the winter your heating system is pumping warm air into each room in your home. Obviously, you want to keep as much of that heat in the room as possible. However, everyone knows that heat rises. If your home has a second floor and the heat goes up there, that's fine - it is still useable warm air. However, if the only thing above your living are is your attic, you better have a good layer of attic insulation or you will certainly lose some heated air and make your heating system work harder.

In the summer the outside temperature is hot and your AC system is working very hard to keep each room in your home cool. However, without sufficient attic insulation, Dallas area residences may experience an uphill battle at keeping their homes cool with the ground level cool air battling the radiating down heat of the attic. Attic insulation becomes vital in keeping those pricey cooling costs at bay.

Do Dallas Area Residents Need Attic Insulation?

If your attic currently does not have any attic insulation you should give us a call as soon as possible. If your attic already has some insulation you still may be able to benefit from additional attic insulation or replacement. To check, measure the thickness of the attic insulation. If you have loose-fill fiberglass insulation in the greater Dallas area, and the thickness is less than about 12 inches, you could use additional attic insulation.

Without getting too technical - attic insulation is measured as an "R-Value". The per-inch R-Value of loose-fill fiberglass insulation is 2.2 to 2.9. So if you measured 12 inches of thickness multiply that by the R-Value and it comes up to an R-Value range of 26 to 35. That is a little low. To be ideally insulated, you want to have an R-Value of at least 38 or as much as R-49.)

As a homeowner you don't have to worry about figuring out all the formulas and calculations to see if you have enough attic insulation. One simple call and we will be happy to come out and complete an assessment of your attic insulation and let you know if it is lacking in any way or is safe. We see a wide variety of situations - some attics are fine and others are costing the homeowner a lot of money in terms of wasted energy. Of course, the assessment performed by our trained heating and cooling service technician is completely FREE and you are under no obligation to purchase any products or services. You have nothing to lose and you may learn some valuable information about your home and the degree to which it is energy efficient.

One other important note - many of the attics that we see don't have finished flooring. In order to move about the attic you would need to balance as you move from one ceiling joist to another. We do not recommend this! There are hundreds of people each year that get injured because they were trying to walk about their attic and they ended up losing their balance and falling through the ceiling. Either spread some thick plywood across the joists for easier movement or let us handle moving around in the attic.

Be safe and let our team of experts come evaluate your home's attic insulation or radiant barrier needs today.

Call us today at (972) 276-2544 for a free estimate for our attic insulation services or radiant barrier service.