Before & After Photos

This attic in Reston VA had a big project completed with multiple products and services utilized to help make the homes upper floor more comfortable year round.  We removed the old insulation, used Zyp Foam to air seal the attic, installed Silver Glo insulation panels to a large section, insulated the HVAX duct with spray foam and then filled the space with Tru Soft cellulose insulation.  This homeowner will be more comfortable and pay less to heat and cool their home.  

This Reston, VA attic had low-quality insulation that was making the home too hot in the summer and too cold in the winter. We went out to the home and had our sales professional complete a full inspection. He determined that the best solution would be to tear out and dispose of the old insulation, add ZypFoam to air seal the freshly cleared attic floor, and then add new TruSoft cellulose insulation to keep the home comfortable year-round.

This Reston VA home had an attic that was not properly insulated and causing comfort issues in the home.  A lack of an air seal for the attic was allowing conditioned air from the rooms in the home to leak away.  Walls in the attic that were covered with traditional bat insulation were not holding temperature and had cracks where more air was escaping.  Our production team removed the existing insulation from the attic, used Zyp Foam to air seal all of the gaps and cracks where air had been able to escape and then used Spray Foam to insulate and seal the walls.  Tru Soft cellulose insulation was then blown in to cover the rest of the attic floor/surface.  

Often attic spaced needs to be used as storage. When that is the case, traditional bat insulation or blown in cellulose insulation won't do the trick. We offer Silver Glo panel insulation to cover walls, corners and the underside of roofs so that the area below is left accessible and usable.  This tiny room off of the main attic space in this Oakton VA home was treated with Silver Glo panels and therefore remained open for use by the homeowner if needed for storage. Zyp Foam was used to air seal the seams of the Silver Glo panels.  

There are many steps to any attic project that we work on.  More than just "before" and "after", there is also in "between" and "in progress".  This Oakton VA home had rooms that were not always comfortable year round.  Our Home Performance Sales Pro Greg went out to visit the homeowners and perform a no cost home inspection after they called us about their rooms being too hot in the summer and too cold in the winter.  In addition to several other services, this client decided to have their old attic insulation removed so that we could air seal the cracks, gaps and openings in the attic that were allowing conditioned air to escape the rooms below, before we would then blow in Tru Soft cellulose insulation to cover the attic surface and properly insulate the space.    Here is what the attic looked like to start and what it looked like after we removed the old insulation and prepared to air seal.