Comfenergy Before & After Photos

We removed the old, traditional bat style insulation, air sealed the space with ZypFoam and installed Foamax insulation panels on the walls and roof of this attic.  This helped make the floor space in the attic useable and made the attic a fully conditioned space unimpacted by outside temperatures.  

Even a well insulated attic can get cold in the winter or hot in the summer.  That means that anything else in the attic can react to those temperatures.  HVAC ducts with cold air travelling through them in the summer or hot air travelling through them in the winter can be impacted by the attic temperatures.  Properly insulating these HVAC ducts and burying them in insulation can help.  

This home in Springfield VA had a large, open attic space along with several knee walls that were ineffectively insulated and leading to poor home performance.  The HVAC system was working harder than it needed to in order to keep pumping conditioned air into rooms that were not air sealed or insulated and therefore allowing that conditioned air to escape.  This lead to increased energy costs for the homeowner and changing levels of comfort from one room in the house to another.  After calling us for help, the homeowners received a free Home Performance inspection and we determined what solutions would help. In addition to air sealing the entire attic and using Silver Glo insulation panels to insulate the knee walls, we removed the existing insulation and blew in Tru Soft cellulose insulation to fill the attic to its needed R Value to properly insulate.  

Sometimes less is more.  This Springfield VA attic had areas with too little, and too much insulation.  Collectively it was not working to properly insulate the attic and home.  Our production team removed the existing insulation which was piled on and around this part of the frame and used spray foam to properly seal and insulate afterwards.  this created a better air seal and a much cleaner look for the attic space.  

How do you help reduce high energy bills and make a home with cathedral ceilings more comfortable year round?  You insulate the knee walls of the home with silver Glo panels and air seal the space with Zyp Foam.  The old school insulation that was in this area was not working.  The heat and cold from outside was penetrating at different times of year, leading to draftiness and high energy bills.