Wall insulation in Fort Worth TX - finished walls filled without tearing them out

Most calls start with one room that never matches the rest of the house, or a power bill that keeps climbing even after the attic was done. The price mostly moves with how much wall you have, which side we work from, whether old insulation has to come out first and how the holes get finished. The schedule turns on whether we're timing the work with new siding or a remodel, and on anything we find that has to be fixed before insulation goes in. I'll give you your own number when I come out and look at the walls.

I start by looking for the reasons a wall feels bad before anything goes in, like a leak that's wet the framing, gaps at the outlets or old insulation slumped at the bottom. If a roof or window leak needs fixing first, I'll tell you, because insulation over wet wood won't do much for your house. Then we talk through working from inside or outside, and if new siding is on the way, we time the wall work with it so your walls only get opened once. On inside jobs we cover the floor, set up to keep the dust in the room we're working in and go over how the holes will be finished before we drill. We fill each cavity top to bottom and check the edges and corners, since that's where thin spots usually hide.

Wall work usually connects to a couple of other jobs. Insulation slows heat but doesn't stop air from moving through gaps, so air sealing services, which close those gaps before we insulate, often matter as much as the fill itself. If part of your house has walls against the ground, basement insulation handles those walls differently, because they deal with moisture from the soil.

Fort Worth applies its own energy code, the national model code with local changes, to how homes are designed and built. What that means for your particular wall job is the city's call, so before work starts we check with the city's building office about what the job needs and take care of any permit and inspection on our end. We do the same in the other cities we work in around Fort Worth, since each one has its own building office.

A lot of what we see here is older houses with little or nothing in the exterior walls, often with siding that's close to due for replacement, which makes it a good moment to fill the walls. We meet the same kinds of houses on jobs in Haltom City and North Richland Hills, and the work goes the same way there.