Attic Insulation Before & After Photos

The attic is the place to start if you want to improve your home's comfort and energy efficiency. This attic was air sealed to prevent conditioned air from leaking into the attic. We created a beautiful new insulated storage deck and added 18-in of new cellulose insulation. These folks can expect lower heating and cooling bills of about 30%. And they have a nice clean space to store their Christmas stuff!

Hot, hot, hot! That's the only way to describe the second floor in this house during the summer. The homeowner had already spent money with another contractor to improve the hot second floor with new heating and air conditioning. But it didn't work! Her attic air sealing and insulation were atrocious. Lots of hot attic air was infiltrating into the second floor. And the heat from the attic was going right thru her tiny amount of insulation.

Alber Service Company removed the old insulation, air sealed all wall tops and penetrations from ducts, wires, plumbing, and recessed lights. We then built an insulated storage deck so she could bring efficiency and order to her off season Christmas storage. Finally, we blew 18-in of R-60 cellulose insulation onto her attic. You can see the retention dams on the storage deck that hold all that insulation back.

And guess what? Her second floor is now the same temperature as her first floor! It's not magic. it's science. And Alber Service Company has the perfect combination of highly trained Certified Energy Consultants to diagnose your problems and highly trained Field Teams to properly implement the measures prescribed.

This old house needed some love. The attic was a mess of 100-years worth of attemps to insulate it. Despite those efforts, the homeowner had high energy bills and an uncomfortable second floor in the summer. Rather than try to fix all the air leaks under the old flooring and walls, the client elected to encapsulate the attic. Alber service Company sprayed high density closed cell spray foam under the roof deck and rafters to provide an air tight R-39 insulation. No more leaks from outside. No more hot second floor. And no more killer utility bills!

This third floor original attic in historic Haddon Township had huge issues with leaking air. This caused utility bills to spike and comfort hit an all-time low.

After air sealing to prevent the leaking air, we installed foam board insulation to keep that comfortable air in. 

This client wanted a cooler second floor in the summer but wanted to maintain the storage space in the attic. We couldn't just blow cellulose insulation onto the deck.

The Solution? Super Deck! First we blew cellulose insulation under the deck to fill up the cavity below the floor. Second, we sealed the ends of the floor cavities with spray foam so no air could move under the floor. And third, we covered the floor with 2-in SilverGlo foam board that boosts the R-value of the platform to R-30. You can't see it in the pictures, but the SilverGlo was covered with a new layer of plywood for a durable starage surface.

No more comfort issues for this homeowner!