Before & After Photos

This Vienna VA home was uncomfortable and had sweating HVAC ducts.  This happens when the air temperature surrounding the HVAC ducts delivering cooled or heated air to the rooms in your home is  much hotter or colder than the air in the ducts, creating condensation.  The condensation was dripping onto the drywall ceilings and creating water damage.  Our home Performance Sales Pro Eric went out to visit with the homeowner and performed a free Home Performance Inspection.  Eric was able to identify a lack of air seal in the attic that was allowing for conditioned air to leave the rooms of the home below, causing the HVAC system to work harder and create more conditioned air.  He was also able to see that the insulation in the attic was failing and not helping to control the comfort or energy in the home.  Our production team removed the old insulation and then applied Zyp Foam to help air seal the attic before finishing off the project by adding blown in Tru Soft cellulose insulation to cover it all.  

Homeowners often try to get the most possible use out of the space in their home.  That can include turning small sections of attic into storage areas.  This storage space was cold in the winter and hot in the summer and the air inside was impacting the room it was attached to.  Our production team installed Silver Glo insulation panels and sealed them up with Zyp Foam.  This will better regulate the temperature and comfort for the room it is in.  

Most attic insulation projects have several steps in the service to improve their performance.  Removal of old insulation, air sealing and new insulation installation are some of the most common options as was the case with this Fairfax Station home.  An often added step to promote even better performance is to encapsulate the HVAC ducts in an attic with spray foam.  Metal HVAC ducts running through a hot attic in the summer or a cold attic in the winter can have trouble effectively delivering heated or cooled air created by the HVAC system.  Spray Foam insulation protects the conditioned air by keeping the ducts from allowing attic temperatures to have an impact.  

This Burke VA home had an attic that was under insulated, lacked an air seal and had space that the homeowner wanted to use for storage purposes.  We were able to remove the old insulation, air seal the attic with Zyp Foam, build out damning walls to hold back blown in Tru Soft cellulose insulation and finally we installed an attic hatch door cover to keep the conditioned air below from leaking into the attic.  

This homeowner in Burke VA called us because they wanted the top floor of their home to be cooler in the summer.  Our Home Performance Sales Pro Pedro did a fill home inspection and was able to identify opportunities in the attic that would help when addressed.  Our production team removed the existing old insulation in order to expose the attic floor.  They used Zyp Foam to air seal all of the small gaps and cracks where conditioned air had been escaping the rooms below.  Controlling the air flow inside of the home will help to reduce the energy costs to cool it in the summer and heat it in the winter.  After air sealing, our team blew in Tru soft cellulose insulation to fill the rest of the attic space and properly insulate the home.