Attic Insulation

You can reduce your home's heating and cooling costs by as much as 30 percent through proper insulation and air sealing techniques. These techniques will also make your home more comfortable. Reducing your home heating and cooling bills begins with conducting a home energy audit to assess where your home may be losing energy through air leaks or inadequate insulation.

Adequately insulating and air sealing the access to an attic— especially to unconditioned attics—will help lower your heating and cooling bills.

A home's attic access, which could be an attic hatch, pull-down stairs, or a knee-wall door, often goes uninsulated. This gap in the attic insulation increases heat loss in the winter and heat gain in the summer.

These accesses also often aren't sealed properly. A 1/4-inch gap around the perimeter of an attic access can potentially leak the same amount of air supplied by a typical bedroom heating duct.

*information gathered from energysavers.gov

Zeier Siding and Home Improvement offers the following attic insulation options:

Owens Corning ProPink Complete Blown-in Insulation

  • Non-corrosive
    • No fire-retardant chemicals
  • Noncombustible
    • Glass fibers will not burn
  • Will Not Absorb Moisture
    • Glass fibers resist moisture build up
  • Does Not Support Mold Growth
    • Inorganic glass fibers do not support fungus or mold growth and will not support an environment for vermin
  • Will Not Settle
    • Will not settle or deteriorate with age, so there is no danger of losing R-value over time n
  • Superior Sound Control
    • Provide isolation from unwanted exterior noise

Owens Corning GreenGuard Certified

  • Exterior Walls
  • Thermal Performance
    • Insulations ability to slow heat transfer
  • Moisture Control
    • Key to maintaining a mold-and mildew-resistant living space
  • Air-Infiltration
    • Decreased air-infiltration will reduce energy costs
  • Basement walls
  • Heated Crawl Space
  • Interior Walls
    • Sound Transmission
      • Sound Attenuation Batts can improve STC ratings by 4 to 10 dBs
    • Thermal Value
      • Adds thermal value in applications where a temperature differential exists
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