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Insulation removal

Jupiter, Florida

Insulation removal in Jupiter

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.

The shop at 17628 Brian Way, Jupiter, FL 33478. 17628 Brian Way, Jupiter, FL 33478

What has to come out

Jupiter is three attics, and the removal is different in each. Abacoa is production tile and a ruined batt. The inlet side in 33477 is tighter and older, and the hatch may have to be rebuilt before bags can pass. Jupiter Farms in 33478 is a long truss run. A barn on the same lot is not the house attic.

What stays

A dry Abacoa attic is a seal and a top-up, not a tear-out. Farms is the same rule and a bigger day if the fill is only thin. Say which building is the problem. The barn is not priced as attic removal.

Getting the bags out

The shop is Cardinal Insulation of Jupiter, 17628 Brian Way, Jupiter, FL 33478. Call (561) 654-7698. An inlet hatch that cannot pass a bag stops the job until the opening is big enough to work safely. Tequesta is 33469, not a Jupiter ZIP.

How the day goes

  1. Look

    The hatch in Jupiter 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

After a Farms removal, the hose run for the new blow is long. That is why the rebuild is not folded into the vacuum price. Sanitizing, if the fill was contaminated, happens on the bare deck before anyone talks about R-38.

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

Questions

When do you remove insulation in Jupiter?

Jupiter is three attics, and the removal is different in each. Abacoa is production tile and a ruined batt. The inlet side in 33477 is tighter and older, and the hatch may have to be rebuilt before bags can pass. Jupiter Farms in 33478 is a long truss run. A barn on the same lot is not the house attic.

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 Jupiter removal?

The shop is 17628 Brian Way, Jupiter, FL 33478. 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

Jupiter is three attics. Abacoa and the streets off Indiantown Road are production tile roofs. The inlet side in 33477 is tighter and older, and the hatch often has to be rebuilt before anyone can stand. Jupiter Farms in 33478 is acreage: long truss runs, and a barn on the same lot as the house.

A dry Abacoa attic is an air seal and a top-up to R-38. Farms is the same product and a longer day because the attic is bigger and the hose run is longer. The barn is not the house. Say which building is hot.

The shop is Cardinal Insulation of Jupiter, 17628 Brian Way, Jupiter, FL 33478. The phone is (754) 253-9607. Blown-in insulation is the first service. Tequesta is 33469, the next city north, not a Jupiter ZIP.

The code in Jupiter

Jupiter is in Palm Beach County. Table R301.1 of the 2023 Florida Building Code, Energy Conservation, lists Palm Beach County as climate zone 1A. Table R402.1.2 sets the zone 1 ceiling minimum at R-30. Jupiter does not publish its own attic R-value. The city enforces the Florida Building Code.

Palm Beach County is not in the High-Velocity Hurricane Zone. That zone is only Miami-Dade and Broward. Parts of the Palm Beach coast are still a wind-borne debris region, which is an opening-protection rule from the wind map, not an insulation number. 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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