Attic Insulation in Elizabethtown, NC

Elizabethtown Homes and Their Attics

Houses From the Turpentine Years

In the 1840s the town grew on turpentine, tapped from the longleaf pines and then the area's chief product. Trinity Methodist Church dates from about 1848, and its nomination names only isolated houses as the other buildings left from that period. After that, Elizabethtown grew slowly but steadily into the twentieth century. If your house is one of the older ones, two jobs come before insulation. An electrician looks for knob-and-tube wiring from the years before 1930, a fire hazard where insulation lies against it, ENERGY STAR warns. Where a masonry flue climbs past the ceiling joists, the opening around it is sealed with sheet aluminum and high-heat caulk, and the insulation stops short of the masonry.

Record Rain From Hurricane Florence

In September 2018, Hurricane Florence brought several days of heavy rain to southeastern North Carolina. The State Climate Office reported its highest total, 35.93 inches, from a volunteer observer northwest of Elizabethtown, a preliminary new state record for a tropical storm. Two years earlier, Hurricane Matthew left 18.38 inches near the town, the National Weather Service reported. Rain that heavy and that long finds any weak spot in a roof. ENERGY STAR reads damp insulation as the sign of a leaking roof. So after a long storm, look at the insulation under the roof deck. If it is wet, the roof is mended first. After that, the soggy layer is drawn off through a vacuum hose and dry insulation is laid in its place.