Insulation Removal in Riviera Beach

What has to come out

Riviera Beach splits into mainland houses and Singer Island. Mainland attics come out when the fill is wet or full of nests. Singer Island is mostly condominiums. A tower with no attic is not a removal.

What stays

A dry mainland batt stays and is brought to R-38 after the seal. Say mainland or island when you call. They are not the same appointment.

Getting the bags out

There is no Riviera Beach shop. The closer listing for the north end of the county is 17628 Brian Way, Jupiter, (561) 654-7698. A near-me search on Singer Island will not show a Cardinal pin on the island.

How the day goes

Look
The hatch in Riviera 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

Foam is a low roof on a mainland addition. It is not a product we tear out of a high-rise. After a contaminated house-attic removal, sanitizing is separate, then the blow. Call the Jupiter number.

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

Questions

When do you remove insulation in Riviera 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 Riviera Beach removal?

There is no shop in Riviera Beach. The crew comes from the Boca Raton shop at 4263 NW 1st Ave, Boca Raton, FL 33431. 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

Riviera Beach splits into mainland houses and Singer Island. The mainland, north of West Palm, has older houses with vented attics. Singer Island is mostly condominiums. A tower with no attic is not this trade.

Mainland houses get the air seal and the R-38 blow when the fill is dry. There is no Riviera Beach shop. The closer Cardinal listing for the north end of the county is 17628 Brian Way, Jupiter, (754) 253-9607.

Foam is a low roof on a mainland addition. It is not a product for a high-rise. Say mainland or island when you call, because the appointment is not the same.

The code in Riviera Beach

Riviera Beach 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. Riviera Beach 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.

Insulation removal in Riviera Beach