Attic Insulation

Installing attic insulation is an important part of any effort to make your home more efficient. Attic insulation does two things to increase energy efficiency. In the winter it keeps the warm air in your home from rising into your cold attic. This is a very important function as warm air naturally rises and without any insulation you will have a hard time keeping your house warm on cold winter nights. Secondly attic insulation helps keep the hot air that fills up your attic in the summer from pushing down into your house. On a recent early summer day here in Austin Texas one of our insulation installers measured the air temperature inside the attic to be 156 degrees. Even a little bit of hot air of that temperature making its way into your house can drastically increase the cost of cooling your home.

The most important thing when installing attic insulation is getting good coverage of all areas. Having holes or gaps in your insulation will drastically reduce its effectiveness. This is why many people prefer to have professionally installed blow in insulation in their attics instead of using the batts or blankets that you can do yourself. Batts do offer a little bit better insulation per inch of thickness, but they are much harder to get complete coverage with. Blown insulation can be blown into all the corners and crevices in your attic to make sure you don’t have any gaps or leaks and usually costs less to install both in material and labor costs.