Woodfield Hunt Club attic | Cardinal

Woodfield Hunt Club is the other Woodfield. It sits on Jog Road between Yamato Road and Clint Moore Road, ZIP 33434, with two gates on Jog. Equestrian Drive runs through the middle. Saint Andrew's School is across Jog, at 3900 Jog Road. It is not inside Woodfield Country Club. Buying a house here does not require a club membership. There is no Cardinal shop inside either gate.

The houses are custom builds from the 1980s, on lots of about a third of an acre to half an acre. The attic walk is longer than a villa in a zero-lot section. Tile roofs, vented ceilings, and original batts that have pulled off the top plates. The thin spot is the eave, not the hatch. Measuring only where you can stand will overstate what the house has.

Settled fiberglass is counted at about R-2.2 per inch. A few inches left from the original install is often around R-9. The code floor for this climate is R-30. We install R-38 and check the inches. New blown fiberglass is about R-2.5 per inch. New cellulose is about R-3.6 per inch, and it is the denser product, so the ceiling has to be able to take it. A cracked lid or a long span stays with fiberglass.

The seal is the first hour. On a larger Hunt Club attic the top plate runs a long way, and the wires that were added later punch new holes the original batt never covered. Bath fans that dump into the attic are a hole and a moisture problem. The hatch is the other large leak. A piece of batt tossed on the lid is not a seal.

Baffles stay in the soffit bay before any hose starts. These roofs are wide. Closing the intake to gain two inches of coverage at the edge makes the rest of the attic hotter. The ridge still has to have somewhere for that air to leave.

The Hamptons is a different village, inside the country club, ZIP 33496. Same crew, same R-38, different gate and a different ZIP. Do not book one and mean the other. Gate access is the homeowner's to arrange.

Dry batts stay. We do not tear out a dry 1980s layer to sell a bigger job. Wet insulation and rodent mess come out, and that price is separate. Then the deck is sealed, then the new blow starts.

On a third-acre Hunt Club lot the attic is wide enough that the far corner is a separate bay from the hatch. The air handler and the crossover duct often sit in the middle. Blowing only the near side leaves the bedrooms at the back of the house at the old depth. The marker has to be where the work is, including past the unit.

These roofs are tile over a vented deck. The deck is not the insulation. If a valley has been leaking, the deck is stained and the fill under it is wet. The roof gets fixed first. New insulation on a wet deck is a wet ceiling a month later. We will not blow that attic to hide the stain.

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.