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Insulation removal

Loxahatchee, Florida

Insulation removal in Loxahatchee

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 Loxahatchee pin. 4263 NW 1st Ave, Boca Raton, FL 33431

What has to come out

Loxahatchee and Loxahatchee Groves are acreage. The house, the workshop, and a metal building often share a lot. Removal is the house attic when that fill is ruined. Square footage is why these bids run higher than a Boynton ranch. The workshop is a different scope.

What stays

A dry house attic is an air seal and a blow to R-38. There is no Loxahatchee shop. The crew comes from 4263 NW 1st Ave. Long truss runs mean more bags if the whole attic is actually contaminated, and fewer if only one bay is wet.

Getting the bags out

Hatches are usually in the garage. The hose run is long. We do not quote the workshop as attic removal because the word insulation was on the voicemail.

How the day goes

  1. Look

    The hatch in Loxahatchee 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

The workshop and the metal building are foam conversations. The house, after the bad fill is gone, is blown-in unless that roof is being brought inside. Say which building has the smell. Call (561) 654-7698.

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

Questions

When do you remove insulation in Loxahatchee?

Loxahatchee and Loxahatchee Groves are acreage. The house, the workshop, and a metal building often share a lot. Removal is the house attic when that fill is ruined. Square footage is why these bids run higher than a Boynton ranch. The workshop is a different scope.

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 Loxahatchee removal?

There is no shop in Loxahatchee. 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

Loxahatchee and Loxahatchee Groves are acreage. The house, the workshop, and a metal building often sit on one lot. Hatches are usually in the garage, and the attic run is long. Square footage is why these bids run higher than a Boynton ranch.

The house gets an air seal and a blow to R-38 if the fill is dry. There is no Loxahatchee shop. The crew comes from 4263 NW 1st Ave in Boca Raton.

The workshop and the metal building are the foam conversations. The house attic is not, unless that roof is being brought inside. Say which building has the heat problem.

The code in Loxahatchee

Loxahatchee 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. Loxahatchee 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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