Boca Falls attic insulation | Cardinal

Boca Falls is west of State Road 7, between Glades Road on the north and Palmetto Park Road on the south. Two guard gates. About 722 single-family houses in ten sections, and Waters Edge Elementary sits inside the community. Tile roofs and a longer walk from the hatch to the eave than an east Boca house. Say the ZIP on the tax bill. The Boca pin at 4263 NW 1st Ave does not move to either gate.

A lot of these attics were insulated to whatever the code floor was the year they were built, then left alone. The fill has settled. Settled fiberglass is about R-2.2 per inch. The target is R-38, above the R-30 minimum for Climate Zone 1A. The inches are checked, not estimated from the truck.

Wide attics fail at the edges. The center looks full. The bay at the soffit is bare because the truss slope ate the space and nobody baffled it. That bare strip is an uninsulated band around the whole house. Baffles, then fill, then a depth marker out where the work actually is, not only next to the hatch.

Wires added for ceiling fans, canned lights, and a later air handler punch the top plate. Each one is a hole the original batt did not seal. The seal is done while the old fill can still be moved aside. Once the new blow is in, those plates are gone for the life of the install.

A bonus room over the garage is common in this part of west Boca. If the kneewall and the slope were left as open rafter bays, stuffing them with batts does not match a blown attic floor. The open flat ceiling is blown-in. The closed-in slope, if it is supposed to be inside the house, is foam. Say which one the house has.

Dry original fill stays. Nests do not. Roof rats use the soffit and the plumbing stack. Hardware cloth and sheet metal close those openings. Spray foam by itself is not a rodent repair, and we do not set traps.

Boca Falls roofs are mostly tile on a vented deck. The deck can be 140 degrees on an August afternoon while the ceiling below is the only thing between that heat and the bedrooms. The insulation does not cool the attic. It slows the heat moving through the drywall. If someone was sold a radiant barrier as a substitute for depth, the depth is still missing. We do not install radiant barriers, and a foil layer does not count as R-38.

Truss uplift and a stained deck are different things. A light discoloration along a nail line is common. A soft deck or a ring of wet fiberglass under a valley is a leak. The leak is a roofer's repair. We come back when the deck is dry.

The Google listing is Cardinal Insulation, Cardinal Insulation of Boca Raton LLC, insulation contractor, at 4263 NW 1st Ave, Boca Raton, FL 33431. Blown-in insulation is the first service. Call (561) 654-7698. This neighborhood is not a second pin.