Before & After Photos

These Dallas, Oregon homeowners understood how leaky their home was with all the recessed ceiling lights inside their house (see BEFORE photo).  Air they were paying to heat/cool was leaking in to the attic around each of their many recessed lights.

To help greatly reduce the leakage, our insulation crew covered each can light with a fire-resistant cover (see AFTER photo). They then held each in place with foam that also sealed the bottom to the attic deck.  These covers then allowed our crew to blow in cellulose over the light covers--without these covers, there would need to be a few feet of space around each light, which would reduce the effectiveness of the insulation.

This homeowner called Josh Lowe’s Dr. Energy Saver to investigate the attic as the home was not comfortable in winter or summer.

Our crew removes all the old pink fiberglass insulation for two reasons:

1) If you add insulation on top of the old stuff, it just gives critters a nice warm blanket on top of them—they will still live in your attic.

2) Without removing the old insulation, you cannot get at the areas that need to be sealed up before new insulation is blown on top. An amazing number of houses are leaky; air they were paying to heat or cool was just leaking out into the attic because of the stack effect.

Our insulation crew then blew in TruSoft™ cellulose insulation that is treated with borate to deter critters from nesting in it.

Closed-cell spray foam works well for insulating shops! It insulates well and keeps water from dripping that condensates on the metal roof in the winter.

After living in this house for less than a year, these Woodburn, OR homeowners knew they didn’t want to live through another winter in this cold house.

They found us online and called to set up an appointment. Our energy consultant crawled into the attic and found very little insulation (see BEFORE photo), plus there were leaky areas everywhere.

To help keep heat in the house in the winter, the old, inefficient insulation was removed, leaks were air sealed, and the attic was re-insulated with blown-in cellulose insulation to the R-38 level. (AFTER photo)

To get their attic up to code, this owner chose our company to blow in TruSoft™ cellulose into the attic to raise the level up to the R-49 code level.