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Insulation removal

Cape Coral, Florida

Insulation removal in Cape Coral

Wet, moldy, or rodent-damaged fill comes out. Dry, thin fill stays and is topped to R-38. Removal is not included in a blown-in price. Call (561) 654-7698.

Map of the Boca Raton shop. There is no Cape Coral pin. 4263 NW 1st Ave, Boca Raton, FL 33431

What has to come out

Cape Coral removal is a canal house under tile, usually 33904, 33914, 33990, or 33991, when the original fiberglass is soaked or nesting. A condo with no attic is not the job. This is a Gulf service area, not a second shop.

What stays

A few inches of dry original fiberglass stay. They get sealed and topped to R-38. The drive from 4263 NW 1st Ave in Boca Raton is long. Call before you book a removal day. There is no Cape Coral pin.

Getting the bags out

The hatch on a canal house leaks, which is often the stained bay and not a reason to vacuum every square foot if the rest is dry. We open it and say which.

How the day goes

  1. Look

    The hatch in Cape Coral gets opened before a truck is promised. Depth, moisture, and whether the mess is the whole attic or one bay.

  2. Protect

    The rooms under the hatch get covered. The bags stay on the path that was agreed. A plaster or wood lid that is already soft stops the day.

  3. Remove

    Ruined fill is vacuumed into bags and hauled off. The deck should be visible where the bad fill was. Dry fill next to it is not taken just to make the attic look empty.

  4. Next

    Sanitizing only if the insulation was contaminated. Then the holes that are finally visible get sealed. Then new insulation to R-38. Those are not one price.

After the deck is bare

Foam is a hot roof or a room that should sit inside. It does not replace a removed vented attic. If the whole attic does come out, sanitizing and the new blow are separate, and the travel is part of the price. Call (561) 654-7698.

The install that follows is blown-in insulation in Cape Coral. Contaminated decks are attic sanitizing, a separate page. The contractor, separate from this tear-out, is the insulation contractor in Cape Coral.

Questions

When do you remove insulation in Cape Coral?

Cape Coral removal is a canal house under tile, usually 33904, 33914, 33990, or 33991, when the original fiberglass is soaked or nesting. A condo with no attic is not the job. This is a Gulf service area, not a second shop.

Is insulation removal included in a blown-in price?

No. Removal is its own price. A planning range for new fill does not include bagging out the old insulation. Sanitizing, if the fill was contaminated, is a second price. The new blow is a third.

Where is the shop for a Cape Coral removal?

There is no shop in Cape Coral. The crew comes from the Boca Raton shop at 4263 NW 1st Ave, Boca Raton, FL 33431. Call (561) 654-7698.

Measured against the Florida code

The attic numbers, not a brochure

The 2023 Florida Building Code, Energy Conservation, Table R402.1.2 sets a climate zone 1 ceiling at R-30 and a climate zone 2 ceiling at R-38. Cardinal installs R-38 and checks the inches. A Florida page that lists R-49 to R-60, or R-3.2 to R-3.8 per inch for both fiberglass and cellulose, is using a different book. Table R402.4.1.1 says air-permeable insulation shall not be used as the air seal.

Quotes are prepared by Russell Y, a building scientist, BPI certified, and certified to perform blower door testing. When the door is run, the result is air changes per hour at 50 pascals, the method in R402.4.1.2. That section limits new houses in climate zones 1 and 2 to 7 ACH50. An insulation job on an existing house is not automatically that test. We report the number only when we measured it.

Insulation numbers Cardinal uses against the Florida code
ItemNumberWhat it means
Zone 1 ceiling, Florida codeR-30 minimumPalm Beach and Broward
Zone 2 ceiling, Florida codeR-38 minimumNot R-49 and not R-60
What Cardinal installsR-38, depth checkedAbove the zone 1 floor
New blown fiberglassAbout R-2.5 per inchNot R-3.2 to R-3.8
Settled fiberglassAbout R-2.2 per inch4 inches is about R-9
New celluloseAbout R-3.6 per inchDenser. Still not an air seal
Open-cell foamAbout R-3.6 per inchA roof-deck product
Closed-cell foamAbout R-6.5 per inch2 inches is about R-13

The attics on this page

Cape Coral houses sit on canals under tile. The attic is hot, the hatch leaks, and a few inches of original fiberglass are normal. 33904, 33914, 33990, and 33991 are the usual house ZIPs. A condo with no attic is not the job.

This is a Gulf service area, not a second shop. Dry fill is sealed and topped to R-38. There is no Cape Coral pin. The drive from 4263 NW 1st Ave in Boca Raton is a long one. Call before you book a day.

Foam on a Cape Coral house is a hot roof or a room that should sit inside. The canal house with a vented attic still wants blown-in on the floor. The two are not swapped to make one proposal.

The code in Cape Coral

Cape Coral is in Lee County. Table R301.1 lists Lee County as climate zone 1A, the same zone as Palm Beach, not zone 2. The ceiling minimum is R-30. Cape Coral does not publish its own attic number. There is no shop there.

Lee County is not in the High-Velocity Hurricane Zone. Section R806.2 of the 2023 Florida Building Code, Residential, sets the net free vent area at 1/150 of the attic. The exception is 1/300 only when 40 to 50 percent of that area is within 3 feet of the ridge and the rest is in the bottom third. Insulation cannot close the soffit. R806.3 requires at least 1 inch at the eave vent.

The county zone is Table R301.1. The Boca Raton worked example, including the vent math, is the building code page. Cardinal still installs a vented attic to R-38 and checks the depth.

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