Air sealing services in Fort Worth TX - rooms that hold their temperature

Most people call about a room that never gets comfortable, an upstairs that runs hot or a power bill that keeps going up when nothing else changed. Those usually come from air slipping through gaps you can't see, which is why more insulation alone often doesn't fix them. The price moves with how big and how leaky the house is, how easy the attic is to get into, and whether old material full of droppings has to come out first through insulation removal. The schedule mostly turns on anything that has to be repaired before we seal, and on whether you're adding insulation afterward. I'll give you your own number when I come out for the estimate.

I start by walking the house with you, because the leaks you can see are often not the ones that matter most. We test the house before we touch anything, so we know how much air is moving and where to look, and if you have gas appliances we have their venting checked at that point too. Then our crew goes after the hidden gaps around can lights, plumbing and wiring holes, the attic hatch and the tops of the interior walls. If I find something that has to be fixed first, I tell you plainly before any work goes on top of it. When the sealing is done, we test the house again and have the venting checked again, so you know the work did what it should, and we clean up before we leave.

Most houses don't need foam everywhere. Sealing the gaps and topping up loose fill usually does the job for less, but when your ductwork runs through the attic, closed-cell foam insulation, a dense foam that also blocks moisture, can be worth its higher cost because it seals and insulates in one layer. If your house has a basement, the seam where the wood framing sits on the foundation leaks more than people expect, and we often seal it as part of basement insulation.

Fort Worth's city code adopts a national energy code and adds local amendments of its own, so the work in your attic has a city rulebook behind it and not just a general guide. Before work starts, we check with the city's building office about what your job needs and take care of any permit and inspection on our end. You're welcome to ask me how any step we take fits the city's energy code, and you should get a straight answer.

On jobs here we see a lot of attics where the ductwork, and sometimes a gas furnace or water heater, sits right above the ceiling, so the sealing has to be planned around them. We see the same setups on jobs in Haltom City and North Richland Hills, and we handle them the same way.