Rooms that won't stay comfortable? We seal the big gaps in your attic floor so air stops slipping through your ceiling.
Attic air sealing closes the gaps and holes in your attic floor with sealant, spray foam or rigid blocking, so the air you pay to heat and cool in your Visalia house stops leaking up into the attic. Most of the benefit comes from plugging the big holes, so that's where our crew spends its time.
Most people call us because of what they feel downstairs: drafty rooms, one room warmer than the next, a power bill that seems high for the house, or a film of dust in the rooms right under the attic. Those are the usual signs a house is a good candidate for sealing, because air is finding its way up through the ceiling and the rooms below pay for it.
The price moves with the size of your attic, how tight it is to crawl around in, how many big openings there are and whether something has to be fixed before we seal. The schedule turns on the same things, plus whether a permit is needed, and the estimate I write after looking gives you your own number and the order of the work.
It's one plan from the first visit to the last check, and you see that plan before anyone starts work.
I started this business in Visalia in 2023, and I still do every first visit, getting into the attic to photograph the old insulation, wiring, gas appliances and anything stored up there. No price comes up until I've seen what's there.
My estimate lists every step in the order we'll do it, and I go over the attic photos with you so you can see what each line is for. If part of the job should wait or belongs to another trade, I'll say so there rather than do it out of order.
Our trained installers do the work, protecting your house first and then following the estimate step by step. I check everything against that estimate myself before we pack up. We're licensed and insured.
Before we seal anything, the attic has to be sound, so wet insulation, moldy or rotted rafters and joists, vents blowing moist air into the attic and poor ventilation all get corrected first, since sealing over them only hides the problem. If we find rot, a roof leak or old wiring, we stop and tell you what needs fixing, and knob and tube wiring from houses built before 1930 is one of those because it can be a fire hazard where it touches insulation. Old vermiculite fill should stay undisturbed until an approved lab tests it for asbestos, and your local health department can name one. Once the attic is ready, we go after the big openings first, where walls meet the attic floor, around dropped ceilings and behind kneewalls, the short walls under a sloped roof, because that's where most of the air gets out.
Sealing is usually the first stage of a bigger job, and if your attic also needs more insulation, we can add retrofit insulation once the floor is tight. Foam costs more and seals air while it insulates, so spray foam insulation earns its price when your ductwork runs through the attic. Otherwise, sealing the gaps and topping up blown-in insulation, loose fill blown through a hose, usually wins.
Order matters more than speed up there, because each step sets up the next one.
We pull old insulation back from the edges and the kneewalls so we can see the gaps, because you can't seal what's buried under fill.
The big gaps get blocked and sealed first, then the smaller ones around pipes, wire holes, can lights and the hatch, so new insulation isn't left fighting a draft.
We make sure nothing we seal or move ends up covering the vents at the eaves, so the attic still breathes and moisture doesn't collect in the framing.
Insulation goes back as deep at the edges as in the middle, because thin coverage over the outside walls is where a lot of houses lose comfort.
Tell us what you've noticed in the rooms below, how old the house is and whether you have a gas furnace or water heater, or call (559) 409-1169. We'll reply within one business day to set a time for me to come out, and the on-site estimate is free with no obligation. You'll get it in writing, with the photos I took in your attic.
(559) 409-1169Yes. In an existing vented attic, every opening in the attic floor gets sealed before new insulation goes in. Once the insulation is down the gaps are buried and much harder to reach, so it makes sense to treat sealing as the first stage of the same job.
It can be, as long as the appliance is tested. In some houses, sealing can make a gas or oil appliance push its combustion gases back into the rooms, so you can hire a Home Performance Contractor to test that it drafts properly before and after we seal. I note every gas appliance I find on the first visit so it's part of the plan.
Only the property owner or a state licensed contractor can, because the City of Visalia's permit counter issues permits to no one else. When your job needs one, we apply as your licensed contractor and meet the inspector on site.
Only for very small work. California lets someone without a contractor's license take a job worth up to $1,000, and only when the work needs no permit and that person has no employees. The state contractor board treats insulation as its own license type, for contractors who install insulating material for temperature or sound control, so ask anyone you hire which license they hold.
Tulare County requires a building permit to alter or repair a structure, and its list names electrical, plumbing, mechanical and solar work without mentioning attic air sealing, so that list doesn't settle whether your job needs one. Before work starts, we check with the city or county office that covers your address and tell you what they say.
Most of the houses we get into here are lived in, with boxes stored over the garage, ducts and wiring running across the joists and older fill that's settled over the years, so we plan the work around what's already up there. We're based in Visalia and work across the cities around it, from Kingsburg and Selma to Hanford, Lemoore and Woodlake, and if your city isn't named on the site, call and ask.
We take calls until 9 PM every day, weekends included, so call (559) 409-1169 after work or send the contact form whenever it suits you.
If the rooms under your attic never feel quite right, let me come take a look.
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