Insulation Contractor Serving Lexington, NC

Yes. We take homes all over North Carolina, Welcome, Tyro and Southmont next door included. Send the street address our way, with the square footage if you have it, and you'll have a price back.

In most attics, yes. ENERGY STAR's step-by-step attic insulation guide says loose fill can be added on top of fiberglass batts or blankets, and the other way around. That only works over a dry, clean layer, though, and the ceiling's air leaks get sealed before anything goes over it. Anything wet, crushed flat or fouled by animals gets vacuumed out first.

Not for that reason alone. ENERGY STAR's attic air sealing guide reads dirty insulation as evidence that air is moving through it, which points to a leak in the ceiling underneath, and it says dirty insulation is still okay to use. So in a Lexington attic we follow those dark patches to the gap below and seal it. We won't charge you to haul out insulation that can stay. Removal is for insulation that's wet, fouled by animals or packed down past use.

We price it from the attic's square footage and what the attic needs: how much good insulation is already there, how much air sealing the ceiling needs, and whether wet or animal-soiled material has to come out first. A ranch with an open attic is quicker work than a mill house with a chimney to seal and a rear wing to reach. Your size and those details give us the number, and asking costs nothing.

Because once new insulation is down, the gaps under it are buried and much harder to get at. On its ENERGY STAR attic insulation page, EPA recommends finishing an attic air sealing project before the insulation goes in, and we keep to that order in every Lexington attic.

Yes, we seal attic ducts along with the ceiling. ENERGY STAR puts what a typical duct system loses through leaks, holes and poor connections at 20 to 30 percent of the air it moves, and it recommends mastic sealant or metal tape for the joints, never duct tape. Ducts that cross a Lexington attic should be sealed before new insulation covers them, so tell us if yours run through the attic and we'll include them in the price.

For the insulation itself, no. The city has four National Register districts: Uptown, Lexington Residential, Erlanger Mill Village and Lexington Industrial. National Register listing alone puts no limit on a private owner's own work, the state preservation office says. There is also a city Historic Preservation Commission. Where it has designated a local district or landmark, state law requires its certificate of appropriateness for outside changes, but it has no say over interior arrangement. New roof or soffit vents count as outside changes, so ask the city before anyone cuts one in.

Yes. Insulating a rental is the owner's call. The 2019 nomination for the Lexington Industrial Historic District describes 24 Wennonah Cotton Mills houses on South Salisbury Street and Wenco Drive. They were built about 1886 to 1896 as one-story frame houses with small louvered vents in the gables, and the nomination says all of them are now rentals. Before install day, let your tenant know, since the attic is usually reached from inside the house.