Insulation Contractor Serving Greenville, NC

Start by asking what's on the price and why. ENERGY STAR's hiring guide says a sound estimate covers baffles at the eaves and air sealing of the attic floor before any insulation, and it recommends getting more than one. The estimate should give the target as an R-value. Anything you didn't ask for deserves a question. When the work is done, the FTC's R-value Rule entitles you to a receipt that lists the area covered, the thickness and the R-value installed.

Sometimes. A house that age was insulated when it was built, usually to the code of its day, and today's code minimum of R-38 is still below ENERGY STAR's R-49 for this zone. What matters is whether the layer has settled, whether it reaches the eaves and whether it got pushed aside when the ducts, lights or attic equipment went in. If yours is deep and even, we'll tell you to leave it alone.

Usually, once we know how the attic is laid out and who controls it. If your unit's attic is walled off, the work is like any small attic, and your square footage is enough to price it. If it's open over several units, or the association manages the roof, the owners or the association decide, and the price says which part is covered.

Yes. Insulation Pros serves homes all over North Carolina, so Winterville, Ayden, Farmville and the smaller towns of Pitt County are covered. The nearby towns above each have their own page. Wherever you are, the price comes in writing, usually from the square footage.

The attic comes first for us: insulation, removal and air sealing. We can also blow insulation into walls that are already closed up, insulate a garage ceiling or the wall it shares with the house, insulate the floor over a crawl space and insulate commercial buildings. A home energy audit is a separate paid service. The attic estimate is free.

The size of the attic, mainly. Send the square footage, or the address and let us work it out. Tell us roughly when the house was built, whether it's a townhouse, where the air handler is and which rooms are hard to keep comfortable. Before install day, make sure there's a clear way to the attic, whether that's a ceiling hatch in a closet or pull-down stairs in a hallway or garage.

No, attic insulation is not its business. Greenville has a Historic Preservation Commission, and North Carolina law gives such commissions a say over the exterior of designated local landmarks and districts, with no authority over interior arrangement. Insulating and air sealing an attic are indoor jobs. National Register listing alone, as in College View or Skinnerville and Greenville Heights, does not restrict a private owner. If the work would add ridge, roof or soffit vents, ask the city whether your house is locally designated before that step.

If you own it, yes. Attic work is up to the owner, so a student or other tenant who finds a place hard to keep warm should take it to the landlord. The university dates from 1908, and Greenville has long been a college town. The attic opening is often inside the unit, so the tenant needs to know the day of the work. We seal the ceiling from above before any insulation goes down.

It sits with outdoor conditions on several sides. Below the floor is an unheated garage, and beside and above the room are attic spaces, often hidden behind short walls under the roof slope. Building America guidance says the floor between the garage and the room is air sealed, with insulation pressed up tight against the plywood. The small attics behind those short walls leak too, says ENERGY STAR. We seal and insulate both, and we insulate garages as well.