Before & After Photos

This homeowner in Fairfax VA wanted to find a way to reduce their energy costs to heat and cool the home year round.  Our Home Performance Expert Carl did a full inspection of the home and was able to design a project to help achieve that goal.  In addition to extending and existing bathroom vent and insulating a chimney pipe running through the attic, our Production Team installed a Radiant Barrier on the under side of the roof.  This Radiant Barrier will work to keep the external sun rays beating down on the roof from penetrating and heating up the attic.  The rest of the attic was air sealed to hold in the conditioned air made for the rooms below.  This will all help make the home more comfortable and energy efficient.  

This Fairfax VA attic wall didn't stand a chance against outside temperatures without any insulation.  Spray foam was used to fill in between the framing to create a better air seal and insulate the attic space from the outside temperatures on the other side of the wall.  

This Fairfax VA home is undergoing an attic transformation including removal of old insulation, air sealing, spraying to prevent future mold growth and the building of a new attic hatch landing.  This will be a better and safer place to enter the attic and will allow for standing room for anyone needing to navigate the space for service or storage needs.  Building up walls around the attic hatch will help prevent any insulation from falling into the area of the home below when the access door is opened.  

Part of this attic project in Vienna VA included wrap insulating this Chimney pipe with a rock wool sleeve. This helps keep the heat being exhausted through the chimney from getting into the attic and reduces the potential for fire hazard.  The existing insulation was removed before the attic was air sealed.  The chimney was then wrapped before new insulation was later blown into the attic. 

This Vienna VA home was uncomfortable and had sweating HVAC ducts.  This happens when the air temperature surrounding the HVAC ducts delivering cooled or heated air to the rooms in your home is  much hotter or colder than the air in the ducts, creating condensation.  The condensation was dripping onto the drywall ceilings and creating water damage.  Our home Performance Sales Pro Eric went out to visit with the homeowner and performed a free Home Performance Inspection.  Eric was able to identify a lack of air seal in the attic that was allowing for conditioned air to leave the rooms of the home below, causing the HVAC system to work harder and create more conditioned air.  He was also able to see that the insulation in the attic was failing and not helping to control the comfort or energy in the home.  Our production team removed the old insulation and then applied Zyp Foam to help air seal the attic before finishing off the project by adding blown in Tru Soft cellulose insulation to cover it all.