Insulation Removal in West Palm Beach

What has to come out

East of I-95, 33401 and 33405, Northwood, El Cid, and Grandview Heights are closet hatches and a crawl. Removal there is a soaked or nesting layer in a low attic. West of the interstate, 33409 and 33411, the ruined layer is a slumped batt in a wider ranch.

What stays

A few inches of dry dusty fiberglass stay. Open cans and a leaky hatch are an air-seal problem, not a removal. There is no West Palm shop. These calls go to Cardinal Insulation of Jupiter, 17628 Brian Way, (561) 654-7698.

Getting the bags out

A downtown near-me search does not start on the Jupiter pin. This page does not invent a West Palm address. East-side attics are a crawl. The bags come out the closet. If the plaster is already soft, we stop and say so.

How the day goes

Look
The hatch in West Palm 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

A Northwood addition with a low sloped roof can be foam. The open attic over the original ceiling is the removal-or-top-up decision. Foam smell is not part of a removal day. The new blow, if the fill was dry or after the deck is clear, does not cure and does not require anyone to leave.

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

Questions

When do you remove insulation in West Palm 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 West Palm Beach removal?

There is no shop in West Palm Beach. 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

East of I-95, 33401 and 33405, Northwood, El Cid, and Grandview Heights are older CBS houses with closet hatches. The attic is a crawl. Open cans and a leaky hatch are the usual find, under a few inches of dusty fiberglass.

West of the interstate, 33409 and 33411, Palm Beach Lakes and the ranches toward Royal Palm Beach are wider and the batts have slumped. More square feet, same target. There is no West Palm shop. These calls go to Cardinal Insulation of Jupiter, 17628 Brian Way, (754) 253-9607.

A Northwood addition with a low sloped roof can be foam. The open attic over the original flat ceiling is blown-in. Foam smells while it cures. The blow does not. A near-me search downtown does not start on the Jupiter pin, and this page does not invent a West Palm address.

The code in West Palm Beach

West Palm 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. West Palm 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 West Palm Beach