Insulation Removal in Tequesta

What has to come out

Tequesta is ZIP 33469, near the Loxahatchee River. Removal is for wet fill, mold on the insulation, or nests. Some hatches are closets. There is no Tequesta shop, and 33469 is not the Jupiter shop's ZIP.

What stays

Dry fill is sealed and topped to R-38. The county line does not change the product. Jupiter Island is not the mainland street. Say which one.

Getting the bags out

Cardinal Insulation of Jupiter at 17628 Brian Way does the work. The phone is (561) 654-7698. A closet hatch decides the bag size and the day length.

How the day goes

Look
The hatch in Tequesta 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 in Tequesta is a bonus room or a roof that should be inside the house. It is not what replaces removed attic fill on a vented ceiling. The sequence after a dirty removal is treat the deck, seal what you can now see, then blow.

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

Questions

When do you remove insulation in Tequesta?

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 Tequesta removal?

There is no shop in Tequesta. The crew comes from Cardinal Insulation of Jupiter at 17628 Brian Way, Jupiter, FL 33478. 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

Tequesta is the small city north of Jupiter, ZIP 33469, a lot of it near the Loxahatchee River. Hatches vary. Some are closets. There is no Tequesta shop, and 33469 is not the Jupiter shop's ZIP.

Cardinal Insulation of Jupiter at 17628 Brian Way does the work. Dry fill is sealed and topped to R-38. The county line does not change the product. The phone is (754) 253-9607.

Foam in Tequesta is a bonus room or a roof that should be inside the house. A vented attic over the living room is blown-in. Jupiter Island, if that is the address, is not the same street as the mainland.

The code in Tequesta

Tequesta 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. Tequesta 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 Tequesta