Insulation Removal in Deerfield Beach

What has to come out

East Deerfield, including The Cove, is older CBS and barrel tile. Removal there is a tight garage hatch and fill that a leak or rodents ruined. West of I-95, Deer Creek and the streets toward Hillsboro are wider attics. Century Village has many condominiums. A flat with no attic is not a removal.

What stays

A dry house attic is a seal and a top-up to R-38. East-side hatches take longer even when the fill stays. There is no Deerfield shop. Boca is the next city north. The Pompano shop is the other Broward address, 681 SW 16th Ter.

Getting the bags out

Beach-side hatches decide the day. If the bag will not pass, we do not force it and crack the garage ceiling. West-side attics bag faster and hold more volume.

How the day goes

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

A patio enclosed under a low roof is foam, not a removal of the Deer Creek attic. After a contaminated removal, sanitizing is separate. The phone is (561) 654-7698.

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

Questions

When do you remove insulation in Deerfield Beach?

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 Deerfield Beach removal?

There is no shop in Deerfield Beach. The crew comes from the Pompano Beach shop at 681 SW 16th Ter, Pompano Beach, FL 33069. Call (561) 654-7698.

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
Item	Number	What it means
Zone 1 ceiling, Florida code	R-30 minimum	Palm Beach and Broward
Zone 2 ceiling, Florida code	R-38 minimum	Not R-49 and not R-60
What Cardinal installs	R-38, depth checked	Above the zone 1 floor
New blown fiberglass	About R-2.5 per inch	Not R-3.2 to R-3.8
Settled fiberglass	About R-2.2 per inch	4 inches is about R-9
New cellulose	About R-3.6 per inch	Denser. Still not an air seal
Open-cell foam	About R-3.6 per inch	A roof-deck product
Closed-cell foam	About R-6.5 per inch	2 inches is about R-13

The attics on this page

East Deerfield, including The Cove, is older CBS, barrel tile, and a garage hatch. The beach side is tight. West of I-95, Deer Creek and the streets toward Hillsboro are wider attics and settled batts. Century Village has a lot of condominiums, and a flat with no attic is not a blow.

A house attic is the blown-in job. East-side hatches take longer. The target is still R-38 after the seal. There is no Deerfield shop. Boca Raton is the next city north, at 4263 NW 1st Ave. The Pompano shop is the other Broward address.

Deerfield foam is a patio that was enclosed under a low roof. It is not a replacement for blown-in on a vented house in Deer Creek. The phone is (561) 654-7698.

The code in Deerfield Beach

Deerfield Beach is in Broward County. Table R301.1 lists Broward as climate zone 1A. The zone 1 ceiling minimum is R-30. Deerfield Beach does not publish a separate insulation number.

Broward County is in the High-Velocity Hurricane Zone, with Miami-Dade. The whole county is in it, not just the beach. Chapter 44 of the 2023 Florida Building Code, Residential, sends roof assemblies, wall coverings, and windows to the stricter Building-code chapters. Roofing and openings used there need approval for HVHZ use, a Miami-Dade or Broward Notice of Acceptance or a Florida Product Approval that includes the HVHZ. That is a roof and window rule. It does not change the attic ceiling from R-30, and a blown-in job does not carry a roof product approval. 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.

Insulation removal in Deerfield Beach