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An uninsulated cantilever can lead to cold floors in a home. In a home with a cantilever, the rooms inside can react to outdoor temperatures when air is able to freely pass in and out of the cantilever, resulting in cold during the winter and heat during the summer. This type of comfort issue can result in higher than needed electric bills if the homeowner is relying on their HVAC unit to solve the problem but turning the heat up or the AC down. Dense packing the cantilever happens by cutting access holes and packing them with insulation.
This Reston VA home was uncomfortable for the homeowner year round. In the winter months the home was too cold and in warmer months the home was too hot. Our clients decided to go with our recommendation to upgrade the condition of their attic, including removal of the old insulation, removal of and then covering over an existing attic fan hole, air sealing the floor of the attic and then covering it all with blown in Tru Soft cellulose insulation. This will keep the conditioned air created by the HVAC system in the rooms it is intended to heat or cool and make the temperature of the home more even from one area of the home to another. It will also help to reduce the energy costs to live in the home.
This home in Spotsylvania VA was too hot in the summer months. Our Sales Professional Eric was able to identify a need for a radiant barrier in the attic to help keep the external sun rays from heating up the attic space. This will keep the attic space cooler and let the air seal and insulation that was also done, have a more effective impact on the comfort of the home.
This Great Falls, VA homeonwer was actually a repeat customer. They were so impressed with what spray foam insulation had done in other areas of their home, that they asked for more now in other areas.
This Great Falls VA home had rooms that were not comfortable all year round so the homeowners called us to see if we could help. The attic of the home had insufficient insulation with not enough existing in use and poor quality material. Our production team removed the old insulation, used Zyp Foam to air seal up the small cracks and gaps in the attic floor and then blew in Tru Soft cellulose insulation. We added volume compared to the previous insulation and made sure to cover the HVAC ducts as much as possible to help keep them even more insulated than they had been.