Insulation removal in Fort Worth TX - a clean attic ready for new insulation

Most people call because it's hot upstairs or the power bill keeps climbing, and when I go up I often find insulation that's been rained on through a roof leak, pressed flat by years of storage or nested in by mice. The price mostly turns on how much is up there, whether it's loose fill we can vacuum or batts we pull by hand, which takes more labor, and how much of it is soiled. The schedule turns on what we find, because a roof leak gets fixed before new attic insulation goes in, and anything that looks like vermiculite stops our part of the job. Apex Fort Worth Spray Foam Insulation is based in Fort Worth and works in many of the cities around it, and the way to get your own figure is to call (817) 349-3679 so I can look at the attic and give you the estimate myself.

I start by telling you what I saw, and if part of the old layer is still in good shape I'll say so, since it may not all need to come out. On removal day we protect the path from your door to the hatch, then pull loose fill out through a large vacuum hose and take batts and rolls out by hand. Anything fouled by rats or mice gets bagged where it lies rather than swept, because sweeping or vacuuming droppings can put tiny virus droplets into the air. If something looks like vermiculite, we leave it alone and I'll point you to a trained asbestos crew. Once the old layer is out, we look at what it was hiding, such as gaps around can lights, pipes and the hatch, wet wood or buried eave vents, so those get dealt with before anything new goes in.

Removal is often the start of a bigger fix. If your floors stay cold or the house feels damp, the same drafts and moisture usually reach underneath too, and crawl space insulation is how we handle that. When a room stays drafty with a good attic over it, the walls are usually the weak spot, and we can fill them with wall insulation.

Some of our calls come from property managers and business owners, and in Texas that changes who can handle suspected asbestos. In a public building, the Texas Department of State Health Services licenses or registers the people and companies doing asbestos work, and the state requires notice before any renovation that disturbs asbestos-containing material. We aren't that kind of contractor, so if vermiculite or other suspect material turns up in a building like that, we stop and the work goes to a crew the state has licensed for it.

In Fort Worth itself, most removal calls are older houses whose attics have collected layers of insulation, a roof leak or two and some mice, and we see the same mix on jobs in Haltom City and North Richland Hills. If clearing out the attic turns up a lot of junk, the city runs drop-off stations for homeowners that take trash, brush, recyclables, household chemicals and other items.