Insulation Removal in Wellington

What has to come out

Wellington removal is the house attic, not the barn. The house comes out when the ceiling fill is wet, moldy, or full of nests. The stable, the arena, and the metal shop are not attics and they are not one line on a removal proposal.

What stays

A dry house attic, including the sections near the showgrounds, stays and is topped to R-38. There is no Wellington shop. The crew comes from Boca Raton.

Getting the bags out

Say which building when you call. A vacuum priced for a house will not clean a barn, and a barn price will not be honest for a hallway hatch. Horse properties have long drives and gates.

How the day goes

Look
The hatch in Wellington 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

A metal barn that sweats is closed-cell foam on the purlins, not insulation removal. After a contaminated house removal, sanitizing is the deck, then the blow. Do not foam the vented house attic to avoid the removal day. Call (561) 654-7698.

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

Questions

When do you remove insulation in Wellington?

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 Wellington removal?

There is no shop in Wellington. 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

Wellington is houses plus barns. The house attic is a vented ceiling. The stable, the arena, and the metal shop on the same property are not attics, and they should not be priced as one line on a proposal.

House attics, including the sections near the equestrian showgrounds, are the blown-in job: air seal, then R-38. A barn roof that sweats is a different call. Say which building when you phone. There is no Wellington shop. The crew comes from Boca Raton.

Closed-cell foam on the purlins is the barn job, because a metal roof sweats in this humidity. The house, if the attic is vented, still gets fiberglass or cellulose on the floor. Do not foam a vented house attic to avoid the blown-in day.

The code in Wellington

Wellington 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. Wellington 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 Wellington