Insulation Removal in Pembroke Pines

What has to come out

Pembroke Pines removal depends on which half of the city. 33024 and 33025, toward Hollywood, are older houses. Towngate is on this side. 33026 around Flamingo Road, including Grand Palms, mixes houses and golf villas. A villa with a flat roof and no attic is not the house next door. 33028 and 33029, Chapel Trail and Pembroke Falls, are newer and usually still dry at the R-30 floor.

What stays

A dry newer attic is a top-up to R-38, especially at the tray ceiling and over the garage where the original install stopped. It is not a removal because the middle looks thin.

Getting the bags out

There is no Pembroke Pines pin. The Broward shop is in Pompano Beach. Distance from west of I-75 is the limit. The page does not add a pin to fix a near-me search.

How the day goes

Look
The hatch in Pembroke Pines 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

If a Chapel Trail house does need removal, the volume is the wide attic, not a beach cottage. The price follows that. Sanitizing and the new blow are separate. Call (561) 654-7698.

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

Questions

When do you remove insulation in Pembroke Pines?

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 Pembroke Pines removal?

There is no shop in Pembroke Pines. 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

Pembroke Pines is a long city. 33024 and 33025, toward Hollywood and University Drive, are the older houses. Towngate is on this side. 33026 is the middle, around Flamingo Road, including Grand Palms. A golf villa with a flat roof and no attic is not the house next door.

33028 and 33029 are west of I-75. Chapel Trail and Pembroke Falls are newer, wider, and often sitting at the R-30 code floor rather than R-38. The edges, over the tray ceiling and the garage, are where the original install stopped.

There is no Pembroke Pines pin. The Broward shop is in Pompano Beach. The Boca shop is in Boca Raton. Distance is the limit on a near-me search from west of I-75. The page is the attic and the ZIP, not a second listing.

The code in Pembroke Pines

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