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Insulation removal

Parkland, Florida

Insulation removal in Parkland

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

What has to come out

Parkland is 33076. Heron Bay and Parkland Golf and Country Club are wide tile attics. Removal is not the default. The original fill often stopped at the code floor and is still dry. It comes out when a leak, mold on the insulation, or rodents ruined it, including the tray ceiling and the space over the garage where the original install never reached and a later stain did.

What stays

Dry fill stays, and the edges still get baffles before any top-up, because soffit air pushes old fill off the plates. 33067 and 33071 are Coral Springs, not Parkland. A house on the line needs the ZIP.

Getting the bags out

There is no Parkland street address. The Boca shop is about twelve miles east at 4263 NW 1st Ave. A near-me search in Heron Bay starts closer to other Broward shops. The gate on Heron Bay Boulevard needs the crew's names. The phone is (561) 654-7698.

How the day goes

  1. Look

    The hatch in Parkland 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 bonus room, if its vents are closed, is spray foam. It is not vacuumed with the open attic unless that room was insulated and is now part of the mess. Wide attics mean the removal price follows volume. A Parkland ranch is not a Boca cottage.

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

Questions

When do you remove insulation in Parkland?

Parkland is 33076. Heron Bay and Parkland Golf and Country Club are wide tile attics. Removal is not the default. The original fill often stopped at the code floor and is still dry. It comes out when a leak, mold on the insulation, or rodents ruined it, including the tray ceiling and the space over the garage where the original install never reached and a later stain did.

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 Parkland removal?

There is no shop in Parkland. 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

Parkland is 33076. Heron Bay's gate is on Heron Bay Boulevard off Nob Hill Road, with another entrance on Hillsboro Boulevard. Parkland Golf and Country Club is the same ZIP: wide tile-roof attics, newer than east Boca, original fill often stopped at the code floor. The tray ceiling and the space over the garage are where that fill never went.

33067 and 33071 are Coral Springs, not Parkland. A house on the line needs the ZIP. There is no Parkland street address. The Boca shop is 4263 NW 1st Ave, on the order of twelve miles east. A near-me search in Heron Bay starts closer to other Broward shops than to that pin.

The open attic is blown to R-38 after the leaks are sealed. The bonus room, if the vents over it are closed, is spray foam. Wide attics still miss the edges, because the soffit air pushes old fill off the plates. Baffles go in before the hose.

The code in Parkland

Parkland is in Broward County. Table R301.1 lists Broward as climate zone 1A. The zone 1 ceiling minimum is R-30. Parkland 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.

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