Hot upstairs and a power bill that climbs every summer? We fix what's wrong up there, seal the gaps, then add insulation where it's thin.
Attic insulation in East Los Angeles is a two-part job. We seal the gaps in your attic floor first and then add insulation on top, so the rooms below stay closer to the temperature you set and your cooling isn't fighting the heat coming through the ceiling.
Most calls start with a hot upstairs, a room over the garage nobody wants to sleep in, or a power bill that jumps every summer. The price turns on how big the attic is, how many inches are already up there and whether any of it is soaked or full of droppings, because that material has to come out through insulation removal before anything new goes in. The schedule turns on the same things, plus any repair that has to happen first, like a roof leak, so the estimate lays out what your attic needs and what has to come first before you decide anything.
I come out for every estimate and look at the attic with you, so you hear the plan from the person who made it. A lead installer runs the crew on the job, and I look over the finished work with you at the end.
Before this I ran a hauling business, clearing garages and attics around East Los Angeles, and kept pulling out insulation that was flattened, soaked or full of droppings. I learned the trade beside an experienced installer and opened this business in 2017.
We're licensed and insured. We protect the path to your attic hatch, haul off any old material that comes out, leave the house clean and tell you plainly what we did up there. Backed by our satisfaction guarantee.
If what's up there is in good shape and deep enough, I'll say so, because I'd rather lose a job than sell you one you don't need. To have me take a look, call (213) 329-0372 or send the form on this page.
We reply within one business day to set up your free on-site estimate, and there's no obligation to book. We'll look at the attic with you and write down what it needs and what has to come first. If you can, have the attic's rough size handy and tell us about any leaks, vermiculite or old wiring you've noticed.
East Los Angeles isn't its own city. It's an unincorporated part of LA County, so building permits for homes here come from LA County Public Works, through its East Los Angeles Building and Safety office at (323) 881-7030. Before anything else, we check which office covers your address. When a job calls for a permit, we take care of that step with them before work starts.
That check matters because cities next door, like Montebello and Monterey Park, run their own building departments. Across East Los Angeles and the cities around it, we see a lot of low, tight attics, rooms over the garage that bake in summer, and old insulation packed flat or fouled by rodents. The order of the work stays the same in every city we cover.
If the insulation is level with the floor joists or below them, so you can easily see the joists, it's time to add more. If it sits well above the joists, you probably have enough, and adding more may not be worth the money. I'll check the depth at the estimate and tell you which side your attic is on.
Usually not, because new insulation can go right on top of the old. It has to come out when it's wet, moldy, smells bad or has animal droppings in it, since covering that leaves the problem in place. The new layer doesn't have to match the old, so loose fill can go over batts and batts over loose fill, as long as batts laid on loose fill have no paper or foil backing.
Attic insulation installation in Los Angeles usually costs about $1 to $4 per square foot. That's the going rate for the area, not our quote, and where your attic lands depends on how hard it is to get into, how many gaps need sealing and whether old material has to come out first. At the estimate I write down what your attic needs, so you can see what you'd be paying for.
Leave it alone. The EPA advises treating vermiculite as possibly containing asbestos and not disturbing it, because moving it can release fibers. If you decide to have it removed, that work belongs to a trained, accredited asbestos abatement contractor that's separate from whoever assessed it, and we plan the attic work around that decision.
Wet insulation from a roof leak, moldy or rotted rafters or joists, vents blowing moist air into the attic, too little ventilation and an attic that's hard to get into should all be fixed by a professional first. The same goes for knob and tube wiring, an early kind of house wiring that can be a fire hazard when it touches insulation. If I see any of these at the estimate, I write them down as the first step so the repair gets planned ahead of the insulation.
California has a contractor class for this work, the C-2 insulation and acoustical class, which covers anyone installing insulation to control heat or sound. Attic insulation falls under it. I'm glad to answer licence questions when I come out.
